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Stranger Things, I credit you with this finally happening.
Let’s think about doing a Girl With the Silver Eyes film next! Thanks to Liz Burns for the link.
Now when I heard that Nieman Marcus was offering 36 Caldecott Award winning picture books for $10,000 . . . *checks notes* I’m sorry. I typed the wrong number there. I’ll begin again.
When I heard that Nieman Marcus was offering 36 Caldecott Award winning picture books for $100,000 (that’s better) I was a bit baffled. Perhaps these would be books that were all signed by their authors and illustrators? Well, they are first printings, or early editions, yes. But one can assume that you could purchase 36 such similar titles for far less money. This is part of Nieman Marcus’s “Fantasy Gifts” collection, and the idea is that they’ll donate $10,000 to their own charity if you buy this collection.
Now the collection of 36 has been curated by Johnnycake Books and E.M. Maurice Books. Here is the video that accompanies it. See if you see what I saw. Click on the image below:
Did you notice the books chosen to appear on this list? I am a librarian, so my take on curation is going to be different from that of a bookseller. That said, I have to wonder how many booksellers today would hand a child a stack of Caldecott books that included problematic titles like They Were Strong and Good. This is not to say that I think the book should be removed from library or bookstore shelves or anything like that. But if you’re looking for books that speak to kids today, then for the love of all that is good and holy switch that book out for something with some contemporary gravitas like Jerry Pinkney’s The Lion and the Mouse. My two cents. Thanks to Sharyn November for the link.
Oo! This is neat. Matthew Reinhart goes in-depth on pop-up books.
Interesting that he cites Transformers toys as being so influential on him. Sorry, Autobots. Thanks to 100 Scope Notes for the link.
This is neat. Kidlit TV created a livestream of the Bank Street Bookfest this year, and now the full series of events is available in full. Would that the Newbery/Caldecott/Wilder Award ceremonies were done in the same way. I dare to dream!
I know some of you out there harbor unkind thoughts about Amanda Palmer. That’s fine. But she apparently has an album out with her dad, Jack Palmer, who has a pleasant Leonard Cohenish quality to his voice, and one of their songs was turned into an animated video akin to the Brothers Quay. I just like the song:
And if you prefer, you could watch this one with the world’s GREATEST sleeping baby. Seriously. He wakes up ONCE in the course of this film (if you don’t count the end). I don’t think that’s a trick. Plus it was filmed with the cast of Welcome to Night Vale. So. Right there.
In terms of this latest Series of Unfortunate Events trailer, my thoughts are that they get two points for including Klaus’s glasses (thereby already improving upon the film) but one point is deducted for Violet’s hair ribbons, or lack thereof. Interesting that they made her SO much older. Not that I wanted a 12-year-old mock-married to Olaf. Ugh.
Zut! I wish I’d seen this next book trailer before Halloween! It would have tied in so beautifully. I tell you, it is hard to come up with an original trailer for picture books in this day and age. Perl knocks it out of the park.
As for our off-topic review of the day, this one’s a no-brainer. There really isn’t a connection to children’s books here, and I should probably save it for Christmas but . . . aw, I just can’t. For the Stranger Things fans out there:
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But doesn’t Violet use the hair ribbons when she needs to think, chew over something? I don’t recall her wearing them all the time. I’m guessing they will appear when called for.
Monica Edinger said, on 11/6/2016 1:07:00 AM
Also, I work in a middle school and 12 year-olds come in a remarkable range of sizes. This Violet looks plausibly the correct age to me:)
Dana Frank said, on 11/6/2016 8:09:00 AM
“See if you see what I saw.”
I don’t know what you saw, but I heard him say Arthur Lobel’s Fables is about some of the best know fables. Mr. Lobel made up his own fables because he thought some of the traditional ones were boring!
Dana Frank said, on 11/6/2016 8:12:00 AM
Oh, and it is Arnold Lobel! Not Arthur. He and I made the same mistake
Elizabeth Bird said, on 11/6/2016 11:35:00 AM
Perhaps the Brett Helquist art has turned my head on the matter.
TCAF—The Toronto Comic Arts Festival—is expanding with a holiday pop-up shop at the Toronto Reference Library, home of the yearly comic festival. The shop will kick off with an event for “Just The Tips” the Sex Criminals spin off book by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky this Wednesday, December 3rd at 6 pm. Home town hero Zdarsky will be present to sign.
The shop is described as a seasonal boutique selling comics and graphic novels by Canadian authors, with purchases benefitting the TCAF non-profit.
It’s a nice idea for the festival, an d a great expansion of the retail portion of the show. TCAF 2015 will be held May 8-10.
BTW: Zdarsky—the pen name of Steve Murray—was profiled in the Globe and Mail, whicvh chronicles his off-kilter career, which has just announced its latest triumph writing a Howard the Duck revival.
Last Friday, Marvel announced that Murray had inked a deal to resurrect Howard the Duck, the much-maligned mallard last seen sipping a martini in a postcredit sequence in the summer blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy. The first issue, illustrated by Joe Quinones, will be published next March. The news caps off a spectacularly successful year for Murray, who has emerged as one of Canada’s funniest – and weirdest – voices thanks to the combination ofSex Criminals (his breakout New York Times bestselling comic series), his irreverent and frequently profane Twitter persona, and an atypical résumé that includes a stint as an intentionally bad advice columnist, a requited Facebook love affair with Applebee’s and a quixotic Toronto mayoral campaign. But Howard the Duck presents an entirely new challenge: Can Murray add punch to a character who’s become a punchline?
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Enter to win a copy of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Pop-Up Book, story by Lisa Ann Marsoli and illustrations by Keith Andrew Finch!
Giveaway begins November 11, 2014, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends December 10, 2014, at 11:59 P.M. PST.
Neta has only been at her new job for one week and three days! So welcome her to Klutz, where she is now the Vice President of Product Development. If you were never a child, then you missed out on all of the great Klutz cooking, drawing, gardening, joke, activity, craft and magic books.
Two of the four things Neta says you want a cover to do:
"Ha, made you look!": If you see it on a shelf with lots of other face out covers, does your eye stray to your cover first?
Clarity of content: Who is the buyer? Can you tell from the cover if the book is for three-year-olds or eight-year-olds? Boys and girls, or just girls? Just lawyers?
The first sketches were very similar to what you see above, but with a tighter crop in, with no sign, just the legs of the giant... which meant the only actual blank space for the title was between the giant's legs... Neta went back and forth with the artist over how to incorporate the title into the cover image (adding a little more of the giant's body, putting the title on a sign that the giant could hold, which nicely echoes action happening in the book).
ILLUSTRATOR TIP! Neta says being able to do hand lettering is a great thing for an illustrator to have in their back pocket. Neta roughed in the sizes of the words for the title, and Shaw used that as a guide to handletter the title to its final style.
Remember when Neta told us that the cover should make it clear from the get-go what sort of a book it is, what sort of buyer will know this is the book for them? WELL, How Do you Feed a Hungry Giant? is a POP-UP BOOK! Yeah, I know! And the brilliant thing is that the cover has a pop-up element, look at this cool piece that you can pull out of the top of the cover:
HOW COOL IS THIS?!?!?!?
Neta shared more cover tips, some examples of favorite covers and what they have in common, and took time for Q&A, good stuff, guys!
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Avast! Tis me sister, me hearties! Finding yet ANOTHER fun and crafty way to work children’s literature into your lives. Children of the 80s and 90s (and perhaps the 70s for that matter) may remember the old board game Guess Who with fondness. So what about finding an old run-down copy at a garage sale and turning it into your own personalized version? Kate shows you how. She also works in Giant Dance Party while she’s at it. Kudos, sis.
An ALSC Graphic Novel Award? No, I’m not saying they’re making one. I’m not even saying they’re discussing it (or a poetry award for that matter). But Travis Jonker considers the notion yet again and we’re mighty glad he did.
Even more amusing than the French booksellers getting naked to protest the conservative politician that attempted to censor a children’s book about nudity (I think I noticed And Tango Makes Three as one of the strategically placed titles) was the comment by someone one Facebook (forgive me, I can’t remember where I saw this) pointing out that here in the U.S. some folks when coo-coo when SLJ ran a cover of grown adults (including myself) holding colorful alcoholic beverages. Imagine what they’d do if we’d posed in the buff!
This is what we call in the business burying the lede. So I’ve worked at NYPL for almost 10 years now and thanks to its history there’s just a swath of cool stuff hidden around every corner. Case in point, the librarian reviews. For quite some time, the children’s and YA librarians of the system would painstakingly and systematically type up in-house reviews of children’s books so that the materials specialists could consider whether or not to purchase for the system. Recently these card catalogs full of reviews were moved out of their home in the Mid-Manhattan branch to our archives division. I figured that would be the last I ever heard of them. That is, until Kiera Parrott informed me that the NYPL review cards are posted to Instagram every Tuesday and then collected on this Pinterest board. Scroll through and you’ll read fascinating conflicting opinions on books like Judy Blume’s Forever or the very funny review by a librarian going against an ancient Anne Carroll Moore lack-of-recommendation. One of these days I SWEAR I am getting a “Not Recommended by Expert” t-shirt or necklace or something. Big time thanks to Kiera for this find.
Awards You Should Be Award of, Consarn It: Did you remember that the NAACP Image Awards give out children’s literature honors? And in the field of Outstanding Literary Work – Children I am happy to report that the award went to Kadir Nelson’s Nelson Mandela with honors for Knock Knock (woo-hoo!), Martin & Mahalia, You Never Heard of Willie Mays, and (here’s a surprise) I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl, which I completely missed. Courage Has No Color won in the teen category, which was a huge relief since I was worried that book wouldn’t get any of the awards it deserved this year.
In other award news the Ezra Jack Keats Awards were recently announced. Excellent choices all around. And if you missed the Cybils announcement of their winners, head on over there as well. Very good stuff.
Did you properly celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday yesterday? If not, have some fun and head on over to Nine Kinds of Pie, where Phil Nel discusses seven Dr. Seuss quotes that never really existed.
CCBC-NET is the listserv where normally I can sit back, relax, and just take in the occasional comment for processing later in the day. Recently, however, it exploded as discussions of race and multicultural literature stayed hot but, for the most part, cordial. The post Taking Action to Make Children’s Literature Better for People of Color does a quick summary then offers solutions to the issues brought up in the past month. Very good and interesting reading for the day!
Folks coming to NYC will ask me what there is to do in town that’s children’s literature related and recently all I’ve mentioned was the current NYPL exhibit The ABC of It and the Morgan Library’s Little Prince exhibit. This is because I routinely forget that The Grolier Club ALSO partakes of children’s literary events from time to time. So in case you missed it, you may wish to hop on over to “Pop-Ups From Prague: A Centennial Celebration of the Graphic Artistry of Vojtech Kubašta (1914-1992)“. Boing Boing highlighted some of the art and it really is gorgeous stuff. It runs until the 15th of this month so move fast!
Meanwhile, in Wausau, Wisconsin there’s an exhibit up at the Woodson Art Museum called From Houdini to Hugo: The Art of Brian Selznick. Coo!
After you’re done there you can swing by Hamilton, Ohio where the Heritage Hall Museum has its very own McCloskey Museum. That’s Robert McCloskey, folks. Word on the street has it that they have the original doughnut machine from Home Price there and that it works! Check out all the great March events they have going on.
And just when you decided you couldn’t love the Darwin family any more (after reading Charles & Emma I, for one, wanted to adopt them as my own) you find out that his kids scribbled all over the manuscript of Origin of the Species as well as in Emma’s diary. Thanks to Phil Nel for the link.
I was delighted to sit down with author/illustrator Hilary Leung last week as he came to town for the mid-winter SCBWI conference. Hilary showed me some of his works and stuff and then gave me this little delightful book of LEGO versions of classic and contemporary children’s books. It was so impressive that I just had to share it here. Check out the man’s Pinterest page of images. FANTASTIC!
Sometimes BookRiot really gets a post right. Did you see their piece on bookmobile fashions? It sounds funny when I say it, but there’s really no better way. Thanks to AL Direct for the link.
They’re putting exercise bikes out for teen patrons in libraries now? Patrons, heck! Can I have one in front of my own desk? In lieu of a walking desk I’ll take what I can get.
Daily Image:
I’m not the first person to show it, but I didn’t want to be the last either. I think it was agent Steven Malk who posted it on Twitter. It’s Dr. Seuss, Judy Blume and Maurice Sendak.
Thanks to Warren Truitt for the heads up.
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Thanks for sharing the link to my post on Seuss quotes (both ersatz and real)! By the way, the photo above (of Seuss, Blume, and Sendak) was taken at the 1978 ABA in Atlanta, GA. Seuss read “Small Epic Poem, Size 3 1/2 B” at event.
Karen Gray Ruelle said, on 3/3/2014 6:55:00 AM
Nice to see the Woodson Art Museum getting some love. (My brother-in-law works there, helping to put the exhibits together–I wonder if he helped with this one. I’ll have to ask him!
Stacy Dillon said, on 3/3/2014 10:06:00 AM
Ah, jeez! I have penned (typed) *many* of those librarian reviews! I will be watching this pinterest board to see the reviews of friends and colleagues! (I spy Pat Burns already!)
Tricia said, on 3/3/2014 3:31:00 PM
Speaking of old Darwin, there’s a wonderful collection “Darwin, A Life in Poems”, written by one of his descendants, Ruth Padel. It gives a comic, endearing portrait of him as a young dreamer.
4 Stars Five of the best-loved Bible stories spring to life with bright vibrant pop-up scenes. That is the perfect description of My Pop-Up Bible Stories. Each page is beautifully illustrated and made of sturdy cardboard. Kids will enjoy turning these pages and watching the scenes come alive before their eyes. Plus, at least one [...]
What is it like adapting a classic like THE LORAX that is so popular and pertinent to our times, especially with the film release?
As with all of the Dr. Seuss books that I have adapted, I felt it was important to keep true to the feel and concept of the the original book. We did not edit the text and we used as much of the original illustration as possible. The fact that the film was in the works influenced the publishing of the pop-up version, but as you can see, the film did not influence the treatment I used for the pop-up.
You’ve done a Seuss pop-up before—HORTON HEARS A WHO—but what new challenges did you come across with THE LORAX POP-UP?
The biggest difference between the LORAX POP-UP and the HORTON is that because of an increase in the cost manufacturing, we had to reduce the complexity of the paper engineering in THE LORAX.
How do you determine which part of the illustrations will “pop” from the page and which will remain flat?
The beauty of Dr. Seuss’ work is that, even though the drawings are two dimensional, they have a stupendous amount of dimension and movement, which makes my job easy. The problem was not what to make pop-up or move, but what I had to leave two-dimensional.
I read that Dr. Seuss’ books were some of your favorite books during your childhood years. What is it about Dr. Seuss and his stories that you enjoy so much?
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While the message is encouraging in and of itself, Joe Sabia’s TED talk on The Technology of Storytelling is also a brilliant example of how to do an iPad presentation with skill, humor, and facts. I can’t imagine how long this three minute, fifty-one second talk took to put together, but it’s kinda worth it. Inspires one to punch up their presentations, it does. Thanks to @145lewis for the link.
Meanwhile, when it comes to children’s literary scholars it’s a good idea to remember Michael Patrick Hearne. Whether he’s annotating A Christmas Carol or The Wizard of Oz (the man knows his way around an Alice in Wonderland too) this is a go to guy. That’s probably the reason the BBC spoke to him when they came up with the piece Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy was ‘first feminist role model’. That title’s a touch misleading (Dorothy is actually considered to be the first American feminist role model in children’s literature) but the background is interesting:
I’m working on another librarian preview at the moment (suckers take a bloody long time, I tell you). There are some previews I don’t write up, though. Why? Because you can view them at your leisure on your own time from the comfort of your own home (always assuming your home has an internet connection, of course). Case in point, the Scholastic Spring 2012 Librarian Preview is up and running. Should you wish to check out what those folks have on hand, get your one stop shopping done here:
Wanna see me sit on a floor? I mean, seriously, who can resist that alluring sight? The second of my two About.com videos is up and running. This time I recommend early chapter books for new readers. Everything from Anna Hibiscus to the Bad Kitty books. Those About.com folks are splendid editors. Check out all the floor sitting action here:
And for our off-topic video, I know I’ve posted this one before but with the release of the new Muppet movie I feel it ties in so very well. One of my favorite movie mash-ups:
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Morning, everyone! While exploring various French children’s literature blogs earlier this week I stumbled across this remarkable little book trailer for a pop-up book. Love the children’s literature references, though I admit to being baffled by the inclusion of Madame Butterfly. Ah well.
I did also notice a movie trailer of some sort coming out this week. Perhaps you are familiar with it?
Two interesting things about it. First, that voiceover appears to be Lenny Kravitz. That means that this is a pep talk from Cinna, which I think is very interesting indeed. It sort of telegraphs his importance later in the series. Second, those four notes played at the end. That’s got to be the mockingjay song, yes? Suddenly I’m very excited about Danny Elfman doing the soundtrack.
Speaking of music, here’s a good old-fashioned library protest song.
While on vacation I posted a review of Atinuke’s The No. 1 Car Spotter. Little did I know that there was a video of her reciting the beginning out there. Fantastic! Kinda makes you want to read the book (or in some cases reread the book), yes?
And for our final off-topic video, there’s just nothing finer than seeing true dedication to a craft. Take this stop-animated version of the classic Jonny Quest opening titles. Now, parts of it are done on a computer, yes indeed. But if you go here you’ll see that the bulk of the work is good old-fashioned stop animation. Epic.
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Oh, that No. 1 Car-Spotter video IS a book-seller! But actually I kind of just want her to read the whole book to me!
Elizabeth Fama said, on 9/4/2011 11:35:00 AM
Gah! Those four notes! All I can hear is “A rose will bloom…” from Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet!
Elizabeth Bird said, on 9/4/2011 5:36:00 PM
That may not be entirely by accident, it occurs to me . . .
Someday I need to make a mix of Favorite Shakespeare Songs. I’d include that, “Sigh No More” from Much Ado About Nothing, etc.
Rebecca said, on 9/7/2011 8:35:00 AM
Is it really Lenny Kravitz? The first thing that popped into my head was that it was Gale, talking to Katniss as he visits her after the Reaping. It would be really interesting if it was Cinna.
Elizabeth Bird said, on 9/7/2011 12:05:00 PM
Listen to the voice. I’m pretty sure that’s Kravitz talking. Could be Gale but I like the Cinna idea more. After all, he’s one of the last folks she speaks to before she’s sent in.
Janet said, on 9/7/2011 5:14:00 PM
My “Hunger Games”-obsessed tween and a colleague have both told me that the voice belongs to Gale. (Sorry! I was intrigued by the idea of it being Cinna.) They say the spoken message is pretty close to what Gale said to Katniss after the reaping. Also, the director talks 30-60 seconds about Gale with no mention of Cinna in the promo commentary. (The child has watched the promo MANY times!)
Elizabeth Bird said, on 9/7/2011 7:29:00 PM
Well, then I concede the point. Sounds like your tween is on the right track.
I guess that there’s a mild irony to the fact that while I’ll write up anyone’s literary event if I’m able to attend, if I help to throw the darn things myself then suddenly I clam up. For example, with the possible exception of the blogger panel I had two years ago, I don’t think I’ve ever written up one of my Children’s Literary Salons. Why is this? Because I am lazy, I don’t have access to photographs of the event much of the time, and because I feel like it’s tooting my own horn. That said, I seem to be more than happy to link to other folks when they choose to write up my Salons. Case in point, this great little recap of what when down when I invited Sam Ita and Kyle Olmon to be a part of my Children’s Lit Salon on pop-up books. Wow, thanks, Kyle! Now who wants to recap last Saturday’s Peter Pan Salon? Anyone? Anyone?
I really enjoyed Exit Through the Gift Shop when I saw it on DVD not too long ago (and grateful that it clarified the image on this cover). I guess it makes sense to show the film to kids too. It’s a lot of fun, slightly subversive, and can lead to ideas like the one author/illustrator Aaron Zenz had. Want to get your child’s creative juices flowing without defacing other peoples’ property? Check out one of the more creative rock and paint related ideas I’ve seen. You know what I think? I think a library could have a Street Art craft program (for kids or teens) doing this and encourage them to also hide them around the city. Nice photographs too.
Wow! Kirkus doesn’t mess around. When they decided to get into this whole online world thing they didn’t tippy toe into it, but rather leapt headfirst in one fell swoop! Getting bought will do that to you, I guess. Now on top of reviewing Apps, offering readalikes for each book they cover, and making all their reviews free online, they’ve just revealed the second round of book bloggers on the site. I already knew about the YA ones on there (Bookshelves of Doom, YA or STFU, and The YaYaYas) but what’s this I see? Could it be Jules Danielson of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast who is currently writing a book with Peter Sieruta and myself? Tis! A good roster, but what’s up with three YA folks and only one for kids’ stuff? More! I want more fantastic bloggers paid for their work! More, I say!
Speaking of Peter, I hope y’all got a chance to check out his most recent post concerning (amongst many things) his thoughts on last night’s Celebrity Apprentice where they had to make a children’s book (oop, ack) and an idea for a children’s book-related reality series. I don’t watch any reality TV myself but I’d change my ways in a heartbeat if Rowling for Dollars ever appeared on my DVR schedule.
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Lest we forget that book banning and free speech issues are conversational topics appropriate beyond the brackets of Banned Books Week, a recent news item has me lost for words. A federal appeals court has ruled, and this is true, that an Ohio high school teacher “has no First Amendment right to make assignments about book-banning or to select particular books for her students.” Come again? Well apparently a teacher decided to do an assignment on banned books with her class (of high school students, recall). So they each picked a book that had been banned. . . and then their parents found out. So because she was distributing racy literature like, oh say, Heather Has Two Mommies, the teacher’s contract was not renewed and she lost her appeal. You may read more about the case here. Thanks to Leslea Newman for the links.
Now that’s interesting. I had not heard that Jacqueline Woodson’s novel Locomotion had been turned into a stage play. Once in a while a book to theater adaptation just makes perfect sense. This is one of those cases. I suppose verse novels make excellent adaptations. Huh! Food for thought.
Feeling the absence of my Top 100 Novels poll results? Well, much of my information came from Anita Silvey. Now Anita turns it all around by starting a blog of her own. Called Book-A-Day Almanac, the premise is that she will recommend a children’s book every day for a year. At the end of the year, she’ll then turn those posts into a book. Shoot. That’s a good idea. Clearly I’ve got to get around to turning my own polls into books. Thanks to 100 Scope Notes for the link.
I really like this habit I’ve gotten into, doing audible reviews of books for the Katie Davis podcast Brain Burps About Books. In a given year I can properly review only so many books. Katie’s site allows me to give some weight and consideration to I might otherwise have to ignore, like Kimberly Willis Holt’s gorgeous The Water Seeker. That’s this week’s review on Katie’s newest podcast
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Daniel Radcliff is suffering from a severe lack of glasses!
Thanks for the links, esp. the P.L. Travers interview–wonderful. The non-Julie Andrews Mary Poppins is herself kind of hippy-dippy, certainly otherworldly, wry, dry, wise, and justifiably vain. Not really a spoonful of sugar kind of gal.
Leila said, on 10/30/2010 2:02:00 PM
I *adore* Travers’ wonderfully vain and cranky Mary Poppins.
WendieO said, on 10/30/2010 6:24:00 PM
RE: the Daniel Radcliff READ poster: Material Management bought one for every library branch in our system. But we’re gonna put it in the Adult Department at our branch because of the book he is holding. It’s an Out-of-Print Adult fiction book, not owned by our library system, featuring the devil as the main character. (I bet many libraries will find that ’someone’ has improved the poster by drawing glasses onto his face.)
I followed your link and tried to figure out what books the rest of the Hogwarts crew were holding, but couldn’t. Does anybody know? (I’ll have to check my READ poster catalog — ALA Graphics — when I go back to work.
Call me weird, but I think the picture of the Lorax is cute — nice and fuzzy.
-wendieO
Brenda Ferber said, on 10/31/2010 6:52:00 AM
Re Daniel Radcliff looking strange… if by strange you mean sort of hot, then yes indeed!
Susan said, on 10/31/2010 7:43:00 AM
WendieO….Rupert Gint is holding a copy of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Alan Rickman has a copy of Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger. I don’t recognize the cover art on the book Emma Watson is holding!
Jess said, on 11/1/2010 4:27:00 PM
Daniel Radcliffe DOES look strange, like he’s glowing from within in a creepy sort of way. I hadn’t noticed he’s holding The Master and Margarita until Wendy pointed it out – it’s great to see a not-so-popular title on a Read poster. It’s bizarre and entertaining and strangely fantastic, although not a children’s book, of course.
The real Mary Poppins is one of my favorite fictional characters – vain and cranky is the perfect description.
Let's face it. There are very few sure things in life. But computer pop-up messages have got to be among the surest.
Those insidious little message boxes are perennial, perpetual and filled with promises as they entreat us not to click on "OK" until after we have carefully copied down the web site name for later reference. Most of the time my finely tuned "delete" reflex kicks in as a matter of cyber self-defense. But one of my greatest fears is that, in my haste, I will inadvertently delete my only chance at wealth and fame.
Who knows? I might get lucky and find a real deal on celebrity sunglasses, penis enlargement cream or a year's supply of "performance enhancement" drugs. With just a little up-front money, I could set up any number of home-based businesses and make my fortune in only a few hours each week. Hey! It could happen! After all, I've got all that time in my golden years ahead of me.
On the other hand, with all those choices, I don't want to rush into anything. So, until the ultimate money making proposition appears, I suppose wading through a sea of pop-ups from the likes of "Tormelocka1234", "partygirlxxx" or "wnxbombiggie2ee.com" (not their real names, to protect their privacy) is a small price to pay. In the meantime, it's comforting to know that I'll always have plenty of party poker pop-ups to fall back on to generate immediate income.
But don't you wonder how all those irritating pop-up message boxes work? Some are small; some tall and skinny. Some even fill the entire screen, with the "[X]" (close) button outside the viewing area, forcing a complete computer shutdown to get rid of them.
Where do they come from anyway? And how do they know when to pop up on my computer screen? I'm convinced there must be artificially intelligent random pop-up generators out there in cyberspace, activating only when I'm on line. They can't fool me! I know how the light inside a refrigerator works!
In the face of such an incessant and withering technological onslaught, I've been sorely tempted to take things into my own hands and buy some of that anti-ad computer software. But, alas, I'm reluctant to risk it. The software that promises to end pop-ups forever is advertised well, you know, in a pop-up....
By the way, does anyone know who "Stacie.1cams" is? I'm sure she and the friends on her web site are very nice people. But I must admit to wondering why the names in those pop-up ads are always something like Stacy or April or Bambi? Among the hundreds of pop-up web site names I've seen, I don't recall a single Gertrude, Agnes or Prudence. What's up with that?
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But doesn’t Violet use the hair ribbons when she needs to think, chew over something? I don’t recall her wearing them all the time. I’m guessing they will appear when called for.
Also, I work in a middle school and 12 year-olds come in a remarkable range of sizes. This Violet looks plausibly the correct age to me:)
“See if you see what I saw.”
I don’t know what you saw, but I heard him say Arthur Lobel’s Fables is about some of the best know fables. Mr. Lobel made up his own fables because he thought some of the traditional ones were boring!
Oh, and it is Arnold Lobel! Not Arthur. He and I made the same mistake
Perhaps the Brett Helquist art has turned my head on the matter.