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October 29, 2014
Press Release Fun: A Charlotte’s Web Celebration Par Excellence
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LIEV SCHREIBER, DAVID HYDE PIERCE, JANE CURTIN, MICHAEL POTTS AND MORE
CELEBRATE THE BELOVED AUTHOR OFCHARLOTTE’S WEBWITH READINGS AND MUSIC
Symphony Space, First Book – Manhattan and HarperCollins Publishers announce
A star-studded evening honoring E.B. White on November 16, 2014
October 2, 2014NEW YORK, N.Y.—After the success of last year’s sold-out event featuring Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan performing excerpts from Roald Dahl’s classics, Symphony Space and First...
October 28, 2014
Fusenews: Bemoaning, Lamenting, and Generally Carrying On
“… seeking info on a children’s book that was [a] favorite at least 30 years ago about a baby bird (with goggles) who is having trouble learning to fly.”
Here’s a new one. Apparently the 2014 Nobel Prize winner for literature is a French author with a children’s book...
October 27, 2014
Is It Rude to Ask?
There are questions in this world that it is always safe to ask a children’s librarian about his or her children. Prominent amongst them: “So what are your kids reading these days?”
The “kids” in question here would be the librarian’s children. Yet I’ll admit that when I’m asked, there’s always that brief moment of confusion on my part where my brain tries to access the answer. I read her four books less than 12 hours ago so why can’t I recall any of their titles? Eventually I’m able to piece...
October 25, 2014
Press Release Fun: Nominate a Literary Landmark
From our good fellow in the field, Rocco Staino:
Hello,
As chair of the ALA/CBC committee I am working with United for Libraries and theChildren’s Book Council on an initiative forChildren’s Book Week. It is our hope that duringChildren’s Book Week in 2015 that with your help United for Libraries can dedicate throughout the country at least 7LiteraryLandmarksthat are connected with achildren’s book or author.
It would be great if you or your state organization would take the lead in nominating a...
October 23, 2014
Walking and Talking with . . . Jenni Holm!
This is our second “Walking and Talking” installment by the clearly multi-talented Steve Sheinkin. This week? Jenni Holm discusses how she works and gives some background on the blood, sweat and tears that went into The Fourteenth Goldfish.
Be also sure to check out the first Walking and Talking with . . . John Corey Whaley. Big thanks to Steven too for letting me post these!
October 22, 2014
The 9th Annual Carle Honors – 2014
Traditionally I tend to attend the Carle Honors secretly pregnant. I’m not sure why this is but at least twice I have walked about, discretely refusing any and all alcoholic beverages. One of those times I’d discovered the pregnancy mere hours before the event.
No hidden incipient heirs were on display this time around, and that suited me fine. But what are The Carle Honors, precisely? Well, they’re best described as an annual benefeit gala for The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. As the...
October 21, 2014
Announcing the Debut of Fuse #8 TV
Got me a blog. Got me a library job. And now I’ve got me a TV show. Sorta kinda.
The nice folks here at SLJ took a gander at that little Newbery/Caldecott pre-game/post-game show I created with Lori Ess last January (and I just rewatched the post-game show which I would like to play at my funeral someday) and decided to give me a little airtime. Announcing the debut of Fuse #8 TV! Here’s the official description:
Fuse #8 TV is a monthly webcast hosted by A Fuse #8 Production’s Elizabeth Bird fe...
October 20, 2014
Press Release Fun: Hervé Tullet – The Exhibit
My 3-year-old daughter is currently an Hervé Tullet fan, but not in the sense you might think. It’s not Press Here that strikes her fancy (though she enjoys it well enough) but his board books with Phaidon. Who knew? Now there’s an exhibit up over in Brooklyn I need to take her to.
Brooklyn Public Library Hosts sole United States exhibition of Hervé Tullet’s art running throughFebruary 1, 2015at BPL’s Central Library
WHERE: Central Library,10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
WHO: Best-sellin...
October 19, 2014
Video Sunday: Meet Jbrary for All Your Hand Rhyme Needs
So here’s the deal. In libraries nationwide there are systems where trained children’s librarians are a scarcity. There are any number of reasons for this. It could be that the city or system is low on funds and isn’t hiring. It could be that there isn’t a reliable library school in the state. Whatever the case, just because a branch or a library doesn’t have a children’s librarian that doesn’t mean there isn’t a need for storytimes. It’s not like people stop having kids just because there is...
