February 2012
59 posts
2 tags
“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie in The Progressive about his book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, now banned in Arizona
1 tag
Vera Brosgol in the Wall Street Journal →
Vera Brosgol remembers her own immigration story in the Wall Street Journal. Great little first person piece.
January 2012
51 posts
2 tags
January Round Up
Here are the books I featured this month, in case you missed them among all the amazing reblogs that I find from fellow Tumblr-ers.
+ One popular link to The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism.
Just the Right Size: Why Big Animals are Big and Little Animals are Little (2009) by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Neal Layton.
The Stonekeeper (2008), The Stonekeepers Curse (2009), The Cloud...
8 tags
1 tag
"The Hormone Surge of Middle Childhood" →
Yet as new findings from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, paleontology and anthropology make clear, middle childhood is anything but a bland placeholder. To the contrary, it is a time of great cognitive creativity and ambition, when the brain has pretty much reached its adult size and can focus on threading together its private intranet service — on forging, organizing, amplifying and...
1 tag
Watchwashingtonpoststyle:
Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak.
This is the greatest interview in the history of “The Colbert Report.” (Go to our actual tumblog if you have trouble watching on the dashboard.)
Very excited to be able to feature Stephen Colbert on a kids lit blog.
5 tags
3 tags
5 tags
2 tags
"So, You Wanna Write a Graphic Novel..." →
Interesting article by Martha Sperry in Beyond the Margins.
Science fiction for children: what would you... →
misslibrelula:
thelibrarianontherun:
Check out the comments on this post for TONS of great recommendations!
Awesome! :D :D I approve of all the Diana Wynne Jones recs, for she is the mistress of my heart children’s SFF, but nobody mentioned these two:
Every kid should read The Ogre Downstairs, about two kids who are convinced their stepfather (‘the ogre’) killed their mother and hid away...
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
How do authors pronounce their names? NEVER BE... →
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more...”
– Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature (via cultureofresistance)
3 tags
NYTimes Review of Stay With Me →
3 tags
8 tags
3 tags
“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of...”
– Sherman Alexie (via teachingliteracy)
3 tags
2 tags
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism →
This links to a great list of resources at the Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism blog. The whole website looks really useful and there’s also a book that compiles some of their best writing as well.
Look for some of these titles being featured here in the months to come.
BOOKS Adults With Autism Be Different by John Elder Robison
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammett
Look Me in...
1 tag
“One of the reasons it’s important for me to write about war is I really think...”
– Suzanne Collins interviewed by Rick Margolis at the School Library Journal.
Walter Dean Myers chosen as new YA literature... →
“’Reading is not an Option!’ is my platform,” he told the School Library Journal. “As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don’t read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.”
3 tags
Malinda Lo is teaching a free workshop on writing... →
malindalo:
Attention Northern California teen writers! I am teaching a free (yes, FREE!) two-day writing workshop on writing fantasy and science fiction at the Fairfax Public Library in Fairfax, California, on January 21 and 28 from 3-5 p.m.
This free two-session writing workshop will cover the main…
1 tag
Imagining Race: The Hunger Games →
I’m so behind the curve on The Hunger Games, but over the break I finally munched the first book down. Like most people who read it, I was gripped by the story, the characters, the cruel world of Panem, and Suzanne Collins’ writing.
But The Hunger Games doesn’t need another boost from this little blog to find more readers. What I did want to look at though were the depictions...
3 tags
2 tags
WatchPariah, a film by Dee Rees. Playing in select theaters now and getting great reviews.
