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Good old brackets. They’re the greatest gift basketball ever gave to children’s literature. I’m certain you’ve all been following the Battle of the Kids’ Books over at our sister blog here at SLJ. That upcoming schedule sure looks like a doozy. 3/12 Doll Bones vs Eleanor & Park judged by Lauren Oliver? Lauren, baby, my condolences. 3/13 Far Far Away vs Flora & Ulysses judged by Sara Mlynowski? You can bet I’ll be there that day to watch THAT bit of logic. But if it’s even more brackets you seek, NYPL is doing some Literary March Madness doozies of their own on Instagram. Around March 9-12 they’ll be posting the childrens/YA brackets. Hat tip to Morgan Holzer for coming up with the idea for #LiteraryMarchMadness in the first place. So what’s it going to be? Shel Silverstein vs. Dr. Seuss? Beverly Cleary vs. Judy Blume? The choices are entirely yours. Good luck with all that.
- This is not the first time I’ve come across a particularly interesting blog post from the site Teach From the Heart. I don’t know that many straight up teacher blogs, but what I’ve seen coming out of this site is consistently thought provoking. Particularly the recent piece Dear Google, You Should Have Talked to Me First which tackles the sticky, thorny subject of Accelerated Reading. As of this writing, 253 comments and climbing, folks.
Many of you know my true and abiding love of that old Hardy Boys knock-off series The Three Investigators. Far superior to their contemporaries in every way, The Three Investigators combined good old-fashioned boys detective action adventure heroics with the sensibility of Scooby Doo and the bizarre presence in many of their titles of Alfred Hitchcock (Jim Averbeck take note!). Sondra Eklund pierces the veil surrounding the trio’s first adventure The Secret of Terror Castle (how can you resist a title like that?) and the results are fabulous. I mean, the bad guy in the series was named Skinny Norris. Tell me that’s not the best character name you’ve heard in a while. Sounds like an escapee from Goodfellas.
- Ever wondered how to pronounce my name? Um . . . no. No you haven’t. As names go mine is probably one of the easiest to figure out. Still, that didn’t stop me from putting in an explanation about said name when TeachingBooks.net offered me the chance to appear on their site. Hear my pronunciation n’ such here, if you’ve a desire to do so.
- Petition time! Folks, there’s a children’s literary collection out there that needs you help. Apparently UC Berkeley has slated their Tolman Children’s Library for closure. Fortunately some concerned souls found out about this and decided to prevent the event If you’ve a minute to spare, they would like to get 300 signatures at this time, but they’ve only hit the 200 mark. So head on over to the petition for Save the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Library in Tolman Hall and see what you can’t do to give them a bit of a boost. Children’s collections everywhere are facing similar cuts. It’s nice to feel like you might be able to prevent at least one of these somewhere, somehow.
- I’ve been quoting the “He seemed to be a permanent bridesmaid” line Vicky Smith came up with in regards to Brian Floca’s win of a Caldecott quite a lot lately. This was one of the many bon mots on display at the relatively recent Children’s Book Boston gathering, as reported by PW. Great little piece for those of you wondering how the big ALA Awards get chosen.
- Me and Business Insider. We’re like peas in a pod. I don’t know how financial mags keep hooking me into their productions considering the sheer lack of funds in my own personal life. First the Forbes article and now this. Recently BI (I assume someone somewhere presumably calls it BI, right?) asked NYPL if someone like my pretty self could recommend some books that adults should revisit in their waning days. Or, as they put it, Kids Books Adults Should Read Again As an Adult. They took the bulk of my suggestions and even integrated some of my comments and news items along the way. They didn’t mention everything I liked, but I was very impressed that they kept my mentions of Suzuki Beane and Who Needs Donuts. Well played, guys!
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Granted it’s clearly making a more specific reference to the movie adaptation of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (a movie that I need to rewatch one of these days, if only to confirm that it was as creepy as I recall) but we won’t hold that against it.
Thanks to Alison Morris for the link!
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I was going to spend a lot of time on this Fusenews. Then I picked up Doug TenNapel’s Cardboard and lost most of my evening in the process. So it goes. I really am going to have to be brief today. To sum up:
The Battle of the (Kids’) Books rages on in earnest! Wish I’d submitted my bracket this year. So far the winners make sense to me.
- Opinions I do not share. #1: “Here is a list of eleven children’s books that still have value in a writer’s adult years.” I might agree with you if you meant that Rainbow Fish makes for an excellent source of protein. #2: “Ten Tips for Avoiding Terrible Children’s Books.” This may actually be the strangest collection of children’s book-related advice I’ve seen in years. I live in hope that I misread it and that this is all the stuff you’re supposed to avoid, not do.
- Stephen Fry + a pub called The Hobbit = lawsuit city. Actually, you don’t even need the Stephen Fry part.
- It’s spine poem time! With Poetry Month right around the corner you just know you want to partake. Spine poem it up!
- Of course THIS month is Women’s History Month. So I wrote a little guest blog piece just for the occasion where I noted the little known historical heroines making their debut in juvenile print this year.
- Speaking of apps n’ such, did you know that over in Italy where the Bologna Book Fair takes place there is now a Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award? In incredibly good idea. International apps. A whole new world.
- New Blog Alert: New to me anyway. We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie which describes itself as “Being a Compendium of Children’s Books by Twentieth Century ‘Adult’ Authors Currently Out of Print”. It’s beautifully done. Go see.
My general rule is that unless I find three good videos in a given week I am inclined to skip Video Sunday. And the last week or two has been a difficult one. Sometimes videos with a children’s literature connection sprout up like weeds. Other times they’re rarities. Today, I’m pleased to have found my minimum (plus the usual off-topic goodness). First and foremost up there, a book I am incredibly excited about and looking forward to. The trailer reminds me of Reading Rainbow, in the best possible way.
Then, naturally, we follow that up with the Battle of the (Kids’) Books trailer. The Downton Abbey music did throw me for a second, though.
This one’s from a Scottish poet as a kind of ode to women who read. Workplace friendly? You’re call. May as well play it safe, I suppose.
Thanks to Sue Banner for the link.
And finally, I’m only human. When a new OK GO video is out, I pay attention. Even if it’s part car ad. For the record this is real. Not done in post or anything.
And then it’s February. How the heckedy heck did that happen? Looks like 2012 is already establishing itself as the Blink and You’ll Miss It year. Well, let’s get to it then.
First and foremost was the announcement of Battle of the Books 2012. Or, as I like to think of it, the place where Amelia Lost gets its bloody due (if there’s any justice in this world). We’re now in the earliest of the early days of the battle, but stuff’s on the horizon. I can smell it.
- In other news there was an SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) meeting here in New York this past weekend. I didn’t attend because, apparently, if it’s way too convenient I’m absent. After checking out the recap on this blog, however, I clearly need to change my priorities. Though I had to miss the cocktail party on Friday I did attend Kidlit Drink Night which was PACKED, dudes. Packed to the gills!
- In her post Ms. Turner mentions the Mythopoeic Society. By complete coincidence I stumbled over yet another link involving that society in question. Neil Gaiman reprints an old speech he gave to the society in 2004 on C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, and Chesterton. A great look at how good fantasy can influence kids. Also a good look at how bad television programs lead kids to books. I believe it.
- Well The Today Show may have passed up the chance to talk to the Newbery and Caldecott winners but leave it to NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me to speak to Jack Gantos for their Not My Job game. Someone must have tipped them off to the fact that the man is the world’s greatest interview. Love the Judy Blume reference. And though I thought I knew his Hole in My Life story, clearly I missed some details. Thanks to Susan Miles for the link.
- Of course Jack and Chris Raschka were interviewed by SLJ about their respective wins. That’s good news about a Dead End in Norvelt companion novel. Ditto the idea of Raschka working on a Robie H. Harris title.
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The Three Investigators!! Somewhere in my mom’s basement is a complete set of the old library-bound hardcovers I inherited when I was a kid from somebody who outgrew them. I so badly wanted my dad to turn our backyard into a junkyard so I could have some kind of headquarters in an old RV. My dad probably would’ve been up for it, too. My mom, though…
DO revisit The Secret of NIMH! Do it today. Preferably immediately. It is as creepy as you remember. And far more beautifully animated than you remember. It’s on my couple-times-a-year movie rotation. And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to get myself a NIMH shirt.
One of these days I’m going to collect all the authors that loved them some Jupiter Jones and we are going to set out to revitalize and re-establish the 3 Investigators in the public mind, where they belong to this day. Doggone it.
I remember the beautiful animation. But it was the tone that stuck fast in my head. No one could ever match it in tone.
I’m in. I’ll clear my schedule.
Betsy! I’m so honored! You quoted my review in the Fuse Eight title! (Quoting Pete Crenshaw, of course.) I’m so excited!
My co-worker and I are taking turns ordering the books via Interlibrary loan. I just put the 6th one on hold. More commentary on their adventures to follow!
And, yeah, how cool would it BE when you’re a kid to have a headquarters that you enter via a secret tunnel?