Hi all,
The two articles I posted here recently were from the Shelf Awareness bookseller publication I get daily. What I didn't realize was that the author of those interviews, Jenny Brown, has her own blog, too! She writes a lot of great, insightful posts about things relating to children's books and the field as a whole. I highly recommend checking it out.
Here: TwentyByJenny
Enjoy!
(I'm also putting it in as a link under our blogs list to the right of this post.)
-Rebecca
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Book-I-Want-That's-Out-Of-Print
I just saw images from Puff by William Wondriska from 1960 on Curious Pages (which is a fabulously funky book blog by illustrators Lane Smith and Bob Shea - check it out!). I haven't been able to find a used copy online or in the library, but I love its bold illustrations and clever design. Here are some more images from inside the book:
What do you think?
Rebecca Stead Shelf Awareness Interview
A fulfilling, albeit brief, interview with 2010 Newbery Medal winner, Rebecca Stead, for her novel When You Reach Me. From Shelf Awareness.
Rebecca Stead has spent her whole life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the setting for her novel When You Reach Me (Wendy Lamb/Random House). For sixth-grader Miranda, the possibilities in that neighborhood seem at first to contract--the day her best friend Sal gets punched by a stranger and stops spending time with her--and then to stretch boundlessly when she begins to make new friends, especially Marcus, and to receive mysterious notes from someone who seems to know her future. On Monday, the book won the 2010 Newbery Medal.
Congratulations!
Oh my god. I'm still taking it in. It's pretty wonderful.
Does the neighborhood feel different to you now?
No. I always walk around thinking about all the layers of history in this neighborhood because I've really never left it for any long period of time. I think, 'If I could be standing here in 100 years, and I turned in a circle, what would I see?' That's still with me, and that's the kind of stuff that inspired the book in the first place. I think it's the same, just better because I'm so happy.
Was writing your debut novel, First Light, different from writing your second, When You Reach Me?
It was very different, for a whole bunch of reasons. When I was writing First Light, I had so much doubt about my ability to get to the end of a book. I spent at least three years revising it. There was a lot of small work, first with a critique group, and a lot of intense work with Wendy Lamb. There was a lot of fear and doubt because that's how it is with your first book. It felt like hubris to think I could be a "real" writer. The first book was a lot of getting past that. I owe a lot to the people I was working with in those years, especially to Wendy.
So with When You Reach Me, I started out in a different place. It was such a different process because I decided to use a lot from my childhood, like the setting, and I tried to channel my sixth-grade self. That was a gift of material, and material is the hardest thing to come by. It was kind of hard and sort of daring to make that decision. I thought, 'Am I really going to go back to my place of growing up?' Once I decided to do that it was easier.
Writing about time travel can't be easy.
There are a lot of challenges in trying to create this kind of puzzle. It's full of these wild ideas and technical impossibilities, but I want it to have its own internal logic. Every time we changed the story, either Wendy or I would find a new reader. We wanted to make sure we had fresh eyes on every draft, because we weren't sure what we'd taken away. People would tell us, "Here's where I got tripped up," "Here's what I found inconsistent." I had some way too complex ideas because I didn't know everything that was happening when I started out. Happily, I was able to let them go and stick with the idea that the simplest solution would be the most elegant and satisfying solution.
Are you a re-reader?
I believe--and this is not an original idea from me--that really strong writing yields more every time you read it. That's why I return to Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and William Maxwell's So Long See You Tomorrow--which I re-read over and over because I think it's a perfect book--and Alice Munro. That's something I strive to do, to create work that yields something else on the second reading and something else on the third.
Did you read and re-read A Wrinkle in Time?
Originally when Miranda was carrying around A Wrinkle in Time, it was a reminder to me that she was a reader who was stubborn and passionate, but she wouldn't give it up, she wouldn't let other things in. She was a bit narrow-minded. A lot of the story, for me, is about her leaving one stage of life and entering another. I wasn't at all sure that we were going to leave A Wrinkle in Time in there. It's such a meaningful book, and so many people feel a connection to it. I didn't want to throw it in as a prop. We talked about taking it out.
But another part of me wanted to leave it in there because it's such a brave and wonderful book, and it's not afraid to talk about the small insecurities we have and carry with us throughout our lives. But it also has these wild ideas about the universe and the struggle for good. So what we decided as a group--Wendy and the people who were reading for me--was to see if we could make the connections between my story and A Wrinkle in Time a little deeper. I tried to see Madeleine L'Engle's story from different perspectives, like Marcus's perspective. It yielded these new ideas about the ways that stories can color characters' perspectives about time and what's possible. I think kids talk about huge things that we stop talking about when we're older.
Your book does that. Kids start it over as soon as they've finished it.
I visited a fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade group on Friday. I said, "You can ask me questions while I'm signing, but nothing really hard, because I might misspell your name or something." One student came up and said, "I hope this isn't a hard question: How do you understand time? Is it a loop or what is it?" We had some discussion about it, and of course I couldn't sign books while we had it. He wandered off to his bus still thinking about it, and I thought, "We should all spend more time asking ourselves these big questions." One reason I love writing for this age group is that the kids are so smart and focused and able to wrap their minds around these ideas.
You are clearly comfortable with the idea of time travel.
I think time puzzles are fun and people love them. I never get tired of them--ever. On some level, it's just that humans struggle with the idea that there'll be a time when we're not here. Sometimes when I'm standing on a corner, I think what will be here in 100 years, because it feels impossible that the world will go on without you or that it existed before you. Even though intellectually we know that, it's hard to accept. --Jennifer M. Brown
- Rebecca
Rebecca Stead Asks the Big Questions
Rebecca Stead has spent her whole life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the setting for her novel When You Reach Me (Wendy Lamb/Random House). For sixth-grader Miranda, the possibilities in that neighborhood seem at first to contract--the day her best friend Sal gets punched by a stranger and stops spending time with her--and then to stretch boundlessly when she begins to make new friends, especially Marcus, and to receive mysterious notes from someone who seems to know her future. On Monday, the book won the 2010 Newbery Medal.Congratulations!
Oh my god. I'm still taking it in. It's pretty wonderful.
Does the neighborhood feel different to you now?No. I always walk around thinking about all the layers of history in this neighborhood because I've really never left it for any long period of time. I think, 'If I could be standing here in 100 years, and I turned in a circle, what would I see?' That's still with me, and that's the kind of stuff that inspired the book in the first place. I think it's the same, just better because I'm so happy.
Was writing your debut novel, First Light, different from writing your second, When You Reach Me?
It was very different, for a whole bunch of reasons. When I was writing First Light, I had so much doubt about my ability to get to the end of a book. I spent at least three years revising it. There was a lot of small work, first with a critique group, and a lot of intense work with Wendy Lamb. There was a lot of fear and doubt because that's how it is with your first book. It felt like hubris to think I could be a "real" writer. The first book was a lot of getting past that. I owe a lot to the people I was working with in those years, especially to Wendy.
So with When You Reach Me, I started out in a different place. It was such a different process because I decided to use a lot from my childhood, like the setting, and I tried to channel my sixth-grade self. That was a gift of material, and material is the hardest thing to come by. It was kind of hard and sort of daring to make that decision. I thought, 'Am I really going to go back to my place of growing up?' Once I decided to do that it was easier.
Writing about time travel can't be easy.
There are a lot of challenges in trying to create this kind of puzzle. It's full of these wild ideas and technical impossibilities, but I want it to have its own internal logic. Every time we changed the story, either Wendy or I would find a new reader. We wanted to make sure we had fresh eyes on every draft, because we weren't sure what we'd taken away. People would tell us, "Here's where I got tripped up," "Here's what I found inconsistent." I had some way too complex ideas because I didn't know everything that was happening when I started out. Happily, I was able to let them go and stick with the idea that the simplest solution would be the most elegant and satisfying solution.
Are you a re-reader?
I believe--and this is not an original idea from me--that really strong writing yields more every time you read it. That's why I return to Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and William Maxwell's So Long See You Tomorrow--which I re-read over and over because I think it's a perfect book--and Alice Munro. That's something I strive to do, to create work that yields something else on the second reading and something else on the third.
Did you read and re-read A Wrinkle in Time?
Originally when Miranda was carrying around A Wrinkle in Time, it was a reminder to me that she was a reader who was stubborn and passionate, but she wouldn't give it up, she wouldn't let other things in. She was a bit narrow-minded. A lot of the story, for me, is about her leaving one stage of life and entering another. I wasn't at all sure that we were going to leave A Wrinkle in Time in there. It's such a meaningful book, and so many people feel a connection to it. I didn't want to throw it in as a prop. We talked about taking it out.
But another part of me wanted to leave it in there because it's such a brave and wonderful book, and it's not afraid to talk about the small insecurities we have and carry with us throughout our lives. But it also has these wild ideas about the universe and the struggle for good. So what we decided as a group--Wendy and the people who were reading for me--was to see if we could make the connections between my story and A Wrinkle in Time a little deeper. I tried to see Madeleine L'Engle's story from different perspectives, like Marcus's perspective. It yielded these new ideas about the ways that stories can color characters' perspectives about time and what's possible. I think kids talk about huge things that we stop talking about when we're older.
Your book does that. Kids start it over as soon as they've finished it.
I visited a fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade group on Friday. I said, "You can ask me questions while I'm signing, but nothing really hard, because I might misspell your name or something." One student came up and said, "I hope this isn't a hard question: How do you understand time? Is it a loop or what is it?" We had some discussion about it, and of course I couldn't sign books while we had it. He wandered off to his bus still thinking about it, and I thought, "We should all spend more time asking ourselves these big questions." One reason I love writing for this age group is that the kids are so smart and focused and able to wrap their minds around these ideas.
You are clearly comfortable with the idea of time travel.
I think time puzzles are fun and people love them. I never get tired of them--ever. On some level, it's just that humans struggle with the idea that there'll be a time when we're not here. Sometimes when I'm standing on a corner, I think what will be here in 100 years, because it feels impossible that the world will go on without you or that it existed before you. Even though intellectually we know that, it's hard to accept. --Jennifer M. Brown
- Rebecca
Here is a wonderful interview with Jerry Pinkney, this year's Caldecott award winning illustrator for The Lion and the Mouse. It is from Shelf Awareness. Jerry Pinkney: A Story that Resonates
On Monday, after five Caldecott Honor book citations, five Coretta Scott King Awards and four Coretta Scott King Honor Awards, Jerry Pinkney was awarded the 2010 Caldecott Medal for The Lion and the Mouse (Little, Brown). From cover to endpapers to the 40 pages within, the book wordlessly depicts the story of a lion who frees a mouse that may seem small, but who, in turn, frees the mighty lion. Pinkney's first book, The Adventures of Spider (1964), "which by the way wa
s published by Little, Brown," he points out, is still in print. He attended the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) on full scholarship. He has received five New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, was a U.S. nominee for the 1997 Hans Christian Andersen Illustration Medal, and his artwork is in galle
ries and museums around the world. Next month, the Schomburg Center in Harlem will exhibit 40 pieces that he created in the 1970s (he'll give a talk and sign books on February 6). In November, the Norman Rockwell Museum will exhibit Pinkney's work on the theme of "place."
How did growing up in Philadelphia influence you as an artist?
I was born in 1939, so those early
years in the 1940s were a time where we still had the shadow of segregation as far north as Philadelphia. I grew up on a street that was all African-Americans; many had migrated from the South. It was a dead-end street--to the left was an Italian community and to the right was a Jewish community. A lot of my early life was informed by different and separate communities; you see that in my work. My life was shaped by going to an
African-American school that wasn't integrated until I was in junior high. You see in my work the pursu
it of telling the African-American experience and also the other side of it, which is how this country is such a patchwork of different cultures and nationalities. I do see the world and my community from the lens of a black person.
You included "The Lion and the Mouse" in your Aesop's Fables (2000). Why did you want to probe more deeply into this fable?
Going into that project, there were three of us looking for well known tales but also lesser known stories. We must have loo
ked at over 200 fables. "The Lion and the Mouse" was at the top of everyone's list. It was always with me as far back as I can remember.
It was a favorite of mine--the majestic lion is a favorite for most of us. It's a great fable with a powerful moral. It resonates today as much as it did hundreds of years ago. It's magical, that these two opposite characters both play a role in the same narrative. I was anxious to revisit it because that one spot illustration [in Aesop's Fables] wasn't enough to tell the story the way I wanted to tell it.
How did you plan the pacing of the narrative, given that the pictures tell the entire story?
You recently moved to a new studio, with space to lay out an entire picture book at once. Did that help you in your process with this book?
The Serengeti landscape is so integral to your book. Have you been there?
I've not been to the Serengeti. It's funny, I met a woman after church who'd bought the book, and she said she'd been to the Serengeti, and she said when she opened the book, she felt she was back there again. One of the reasons I've worked so well with National Geographic and the National Parks is that a lot of it is reinterpreting; what you're doing is reconstructing because a lot of it doesn't exist anymore. I use my imagination to evoke the spirit and the look of a place.
Why do you prefer watercolors?
I've always loved drawing as far back as when I was in college. There are two reasons: first of all, drawing and line has been important to me. In the early stages, for commission projects and for publishing, most of the work was printed in two to three colors, so line was important to the separation process [in which the same piece of art was run through the printer several times with each color separately]. Then I chose a transparent medium because the line is still important to what I do--it's about the importance of the mark and the possibility of that mark. --Jennifer M. Brown
-Rebecca
Monday, January 25, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
From the website:
Friday, March 5 8.00 p.m.
Saturday, March 6 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. 2010Presented by the University of Trinity College
What makes the imagination in children’s books “environmental”? What do climatologists and botanists, children’s writers and artists, and the playing child have in common? Examining the stuff of which children’s books are made — words and pictures — some of the world’s leading children’s writers and experts on literature will look at the way children’s books create and critique the environment and environmental issues. Why is wilderness as necessary in writing as in the natural world? How do miniature characters change a child’s sense of environment? What happens when fantasy takes on the climate? What do “affluence, effluents, dancing cows, and forty-two pounds of edible fungus” have to do with the child’s relationship to the natural world?
just a question.
Welcome Emily! and then there was (there were?) four.............
How do folks feel about making this blog public....meaning we all can post...but anyone can read it.
I think the MFA piggies is our "private" email site. If this is public, we don't have to sign in....we can just go to mfapigsters.blogspot.com and VOILA!
Let me know what you think.
S
How do folks feel about making this blog public....meaning we all can post...but anyone can read it.
I think the MFA piggies is our "private" email site. If this is public, we don't have to sign in....we can just go to mfapigsters.blogspot.com and VOILA!
Let me know what you think.
S
Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Basic Blog Etiquette
Hi all,
As it may be some of all y'all's first time blogging, I thought I'd throw out some general blog etiquette FYIs. These aren't rules; they're guidelines that help make blog writing, reading, and later on, searching, much easier and more enjoyable. Please, everyone, feel free to edit this post and add to it as you see fit.
- please add labels to your posts
That's it.
:) Fake out, y'all were worried for a sec, right?
The thing with labels is that they make a blog infinitely more searchable. So, for instance, with the previous post, I did not write a label for EVERY SINGLE TITLE AND AUTHOR, because that would just be ridiculous. But I chose some keywords that people might be searching for - "Anita Silvey" & "Leonard Marcus", and some keywords that other people might want to use as labels for their own blog posts - "book recommendation" & "literary criticism". (Oh, and by "people", I mean us. We might need to go back later and look for every post that deals with Anita Silvey. Or something like that.)
Down at the bottom of the "New Post" screen is an empty box that says "Labels for this post:" on the left. On the right of the empty box, it says
"Show all". You can click that link and it will expand the page to show you all the labels already in use so you don't have to recreate the wheel. But you should also feel free to create your own.
Also, that's not to say every post needs a label. For instance, this one won't have one.
Th-th-th-th-that's all folks!
As it may be some of all y'all's first time blogging, I thought I'd throw out some general blog etiquette FYIs. These aren't rules; they're guidelines that help make blog writing, reading, and later on, searching, much easier and more enjoyable. Please, everyone, feel free to edit this post and add to it as you see fit.
- please add labels to your posts
That's it.
:) Fake out, y'all were worried for a sec, right?
The thing with labels is that they make a blog infinitely more searchable. So, for instance, with the previous post, I did not write a label for EVERY SINGLE TITLE AND AUTHOR, because that would just be ridiculous. But I chose some keywords that people might be searching for - "Anita Silvey" & "Leonard Marcus", and some keywords that other people might want to use as labels for their own blog posts - "book recommendation" & "literary criticism". (Oh, and by "people", I mean us. We might need to go back later and look for every post that deals with Anita Silvey. Or something like that.)
Down at the bottom of the "New Post" screen is an empty box that says "Labels for this post:" on the left. On the right of the empty box, it says
"Show all". You can click that link and it will expand the page to show you all the labels already in use so you don't have to recreate the wheel. But you should also feel free to create your own.Also, that's not to say every post needs a label. For instance, this one won't have one.
Th-th-th-th-that's all folks!
Books on Children's Books
Books on the field of children's literature:
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
by Seth Lerer
Paperback: 9780226473017, University of Chicago, $19
Minders of Make Believe:Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature
by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780395674079, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28
Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way
by Leonard Marcus, foreward by Eric Carle
Hardcover: 9780375829963, Golden Books (Random House), $40
Books on children's book art and its creators:
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art
edited by Patricia Lee Gauch, David Briggs, Courtenay Palmer, Kiffin Steurer, designed by Semadr Megged
Hardcover: 9780399246005, Philomel (Penguin), $30
Pass It Down: Five Picture Book Families Make Their Mark
by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780802796004, Walker & Co., $19.95
Play Pen: New Children's Book Illustration
by Martin Salisbury
Paperback: 9781856695244, National Book Network, $40
Show & Tell: Exploring the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration
by Dilys Evans
Hardcover: 9780811849715, Chronicle Books, $24.99
Side by Side: Five Favorite Picture-Book Teams Go to Work
by Leonard Marcus
Paperback: 9780802796165, Walker & Co., $11.95
Books on children's book people:
The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators
edited by Anita Silvey
Paperback: 9780618190829, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.95
Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy
by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780763632540, Candlewick Press, $21.99
Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation
by Gregory Maguire
Hardcover: 9780061689161, William Morrow & Co., $27.50
The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel
by Charles Cohen
Hardcover: 9780375822483, Random House, $35
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy compiled
by Leonard Marcus
Paperback: 9780763645564, Candlewick Press, $14.99
Books on children's books awards (and the people who won them):
Winning Authors: Profiles of the Newbery Medalists
by Kathleen Long Bostrom
Hardcover: 9781563088773, Greenwood Publishing Group, $60
A Caldecott Celebration: Seven Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal
by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780802797032, Walker & Co., $19.95
Children's book treasuries with supplemental material:
Corduroy and Company: A Don Freeman Treasury
by Don Freeman, introduction by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780670035106, Viking (Penguin), $25
George and Martha: The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends by James Marshall, foreward by Maurice Sendak, afterward by Anita Silvey
Hardcover:, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25
Keats's Neighborhood: An Ezra Jack Keats Treasury by Ezra Jack Keats, introduction by Anita Silvey
Hardcover: 9780670035861, Viking (Penguin), $27
Books of children's book lists:
100 Best Books for Children: A Parent's Guide to Making the Right Choices for Your Young Reader, Toddler to Preteen
by Anita Silvey
Paperback: 9780618618774, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $9.95
500 Great Books for Teens
by Anita Silvey
Hardcover: 9780618612963, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26
For something a little different:
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book: Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Life
edited by Anita Silvey
Hardcover: 9781596433953, Roaring Book Press
Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature
edited by Julia Mickenberg, Philip Nel, foreward by Jack Zipes
Hardcover: 9780814757208, New York University Press, $32.95
Out-of-Print books on children's books and their creators:
Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book
by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780525464907, Dutton (Penguin)
The Newbery and Caldecott Books in the Classroom
by Claudette Comfort, designed by Sherri Lewis
Paperback: 9780865301788, Incentive Publications
Enjoy! - Rebecca
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer
Paperback: 9780226473017, University of Chicago, $19
Minders of Make Believe:Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780395674079, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28
Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way by Leonard Marcus, foreward by Eric Carle
Hardcover: 9780375829963, Golden Books (Random House), $40
Books on children's book art and its creators:
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Artedited by Patricia Lee Gauch, David Briggs, Courtenay Palmer, Kiffin Steurer, designed by Semadr Megged
Hardcover: 9780399246005, Philomel (Penguin), $30
Pass It Down: Five Picture Book Families Make Their Mark
by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780802796004, Walker & Co., $19.95
Play Pen: New Children's Book Illustration
by Martin Salisbury
Paperback: 9781856695244, National Book Network, $40
Show & Tell: Exploring the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration by Dilys Evans
Hardcover: 9780811849715, Chronicle Books, $24.99
Side by Side: Five Favorite Picture-Book Teams Go to Work
by Leonard Marcus
Paperback: 9780802796165, Walker & Co., $11.95
Books on children's book people:
The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators
edited by Anita Silvey
Paperback: 9780618190829, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.95
Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780763632540, Candlewick Press, $21.99
Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation by Gregory Maguire
Hardcover: 9780061689161, William Morrow & Co., $27.50
The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel by Charles Cohen
Hardcover: 9780375822483, Random House, $35
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy compiled
by Leonard Marcus
Paperback: 9780763645564, Candlewick Press, $14.99
Books on children's books awards (and the people who won them):
Winning Authors: Profiles of the Newbery Medalistsby Kathleen Long Bostrom
Hardcover: 9781563088773, Greenwood Publishing Group, $60
A Caldecott Celebration: Seven Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal
by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780802797032, Walker & Co., $19.95
Children's book treasuries with supplemental material:
Corduroy and Company: A Don Freeman Treasury by Don Freeman, introduction by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780670035106, Viking (Penguin), $25
George and Martha: The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends by James Marshall, foreward by Maurice Sendak, afterward by Anita Silvey
Hardcover:, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25
Keats's Neighborhood: An Ezra Jack Keats Treasury by Ezra Jack Keats, introduction by Anita SilveyHardcover: 9780670035861, Viking (Penguin), $27
Books of children's book lists:
100 Best Books for Children: A Parent's Guide to Making the Right Choices for Your Young Reader, Toddler to Preteen
by Anita Silvey
Paperback: 9780618618774, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $9.95
500 Great Books for Teens
by Anita Silvey
Hardcover: 9780618612963, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26
For something a little different:
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book: Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Lifeedited by Anita Silvey
Hardcover: 9781596433953, Roaring Book Press
Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature edited by Julia Mickenberg, Philip Nel, foreward by Jack Zipes
Hardcover: 9780814757208, New York University Press, $32.95
Out-of-Print books on children's books and their creators:Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book
by Leonard Marcus
Hardcover: 9780525464907, Dutton (Penguin)
The Newbery and Caldecott Books in the Classroom
by Claudette Comfort, designed by Sherri Lewis
Paperback: 9780865301788, Incentive Publications
Enjoy! - Rebecca
HI ALL......it's time to start learning how to BLOG.
This is a closed blog....just the pigster originals....
If you need help figuring this out, I'll help you.
Get a gmail acct. mine is sandylittell@gmail.com.
Easy to remember.
Then accept your invitation.....
BLOGGER is a google/gmail/picasa run site.
Rebecca! great posting on YOUR blog!
Rebecca has a closed blog. we can't post there.
But we can post here!
S
If you need help figuring this out, I'll help you.
Get a gmail acct. mine is sandylittell@gmail.com.
Easy to remember.
Then accept your invitation.....
BLOGGER is a google/gmail/picasa run site.
Rebecca! great posting on YOUR blog!
Rebecca has a closed blog. we can't post there.
But we can post here!
S
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