By: Kara Schaff Dean, the Yankeerat,
on 6/28/2009
This is kind of old news, since Publisher's Weekly wrote about it back in April, but I just found out today. Huzzah! Blueberries for Sal was selected by booksellers in 2008 as the title they were must sorry to see go out of print. Thank goodness it was a short lived exile for Sal and the bear and those delicious Maine blueberries. I'm ordering new copies first thing tomorrow, cause we haven't got
By: Yankeerat,
on 5/12/2008
Hurrah! My prayers have been answered! A Random House Summer Catalog was in my inbox this morning, and on page two was the announcement and brand new ISBN number for a reissued edition of John Burningham's outstanding John Patrick Norman McHennessy--the boy who was always late. This has been on my "Lost Treasures" list since the early days of this blog. I take no credit for it's reissue, only immense pleasure that someone in a position to bring it back did so.
I hope it has been left as originally published and not revised to meet modern day sensibilities. I'm thinking of the bit where the disbelieving teacher threatens to thrash JPNM for telling lies. Children today need not fear corporal punishment, and I suspect that when the book was originally written in 1987 there really wasn't much danger of it then either. But you never know how far the bubble-wrapping of children will go. The revising of books is an ongoing controversy in Children's Literature, from Tintin in the Congo to whether or not editions of Good Night Moon should feature a picture of illustrator Clement Hurd holding a cigarette.
By: Amy C. Moreno,
on 11/13/2007
Check out Brian Selznick's fun interviews through Reading Rockets. I got a kick out of the first one about GI Joe Island and the trolls he used to have. In the next one he talks about how he didn't want to be a children's book illustrator...so funny.
