All right. Time to bring the smackdown on my Brooklyn colleagues. Um . . . okay, I got one. *ahem* Uh, hey, Brooklyn! Yeah, you! The one across the river! Your libraries are so rodent infested you’ve got raccoons in your main branch! Aw, I’m just messing with ya, Brooklyn. Don’t think of it as an infestation, but rather a sign of a healthy ecosystem. A raccoon couldn’t last a second in downtown Manhattan, after all. Tee hee. Thanks to Ann Baybrooks for the link!
- Part of the reason the Under the Green Willow blog is perhaps the best children’s publisher imprint blog out there has to do with the fact that they (A) post every weekday (B) get great guest writers. Case in point, the recent post by Peter Glassman (the Books of Wonder proprietor, doncha know) about Diana Wynne Jones. Take particular care when he mentions how Diana was being pursued by an “overzealous fan”. I have my own guess as to who that might have been.
- Back in May, Alice Pope created the Alice Pope’s SCBWI Children’s Market Blog. I’m amazed she has time to do anything but blog now! Not only does she do this amazingly comprehensive Wednesday Tweet Round-Up, but also news round-ups about the publishing industry that really perk up one’s ears (PW has a new news blog?). In one recent post she asked for suggestions for her blogroll. The suggestions came rolling in, and it’s quite a fantastic list.
- Kidsmomo tweeted the other day that while watching the television show Top Chef they couldn’t help but notice that Tom Colicchio resembled Jon Scieszka. I wasn’t believing a word of it until Travis of 100 Scope Notes (who is giving away books today and only today!) found a pretty convincing picture. Let’s do a bit of compare and contrast then.
Which one is the real former Ambassador of Young Person’s Literature?
Thanks to Travis for the pic!
- Required Reading for the Week: In terms of CommonSense Media (an organization I
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Thank you so much for the “shout out!” I’m so excited and honored!
The Mo Willems piece “Uh oh” piece is fabulous — and if I were that chick in the middle, I’d be worried about my beak, at the very least. Just sayin’.
You know, when I first saw Alice Pope’s Blogroll Suggestions post, yours was the first–and only– I thought of that was a True Necessity to Every Blogroll, and I very nearly left a comment saying so, but by the time I got there about four other people had suggested you, so it seemed like I’d be going overboard.
I pulled Bath’s books off our main shelves the day he got arrested (and felt bad about the “innocent until proven guilty), but it somehow seems easier to do that in a retail environment than in a library. With our books there’s still a financial tie to the author (and he’s local, to boot) and it seemed like a suitable gesture.