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If you are interested in reviewing books for the January and February issues of The Edge of the Forest, please let me know. I recently shipped out many review copies, but still have lots of great 2007 titles left. I'm ready to send out more books next week if you're interested. Here are the rules:
- Reviews will be published at The Edge of the Forest first. If you then want to publish them on your blogs you may either put a teaser up and link back on the day of publication, or publish the full review a week or so later with a link back to the Forest.
- I mostly publish reviews of recommended titles. If you really dislike a review copy I have forwarded on to you, you are welcome to donate the book to a library or give as a gift (no selling of review copies on ebay, etc.).
- Okay, those are the rules. Not too draconian, right?
If you're interested, send me an e-mail. I'll have a major Forest announcement tomorrow.
Aside from the fact that this is just a really great, relaxing photograph of a forest-- Ahhhhhhhhhh. Peaceful, iddinit? I also wanted to be sure everyone knows that the newest issue of The Edge of the Forest has been posted for your reading/viewing pleasure.
I had a great time interviewing the fantastic Eric Luper about his blog and his new book, BIG SLICK, as well as his footwear selections.
In addition, I have two reviews posted here.
One is for Eric's book, and the other is S.A. Harazin's BLOOD BROTHERS, which I also reviewed for ALAN, along with a whole bunch of other books!
Finally, The October Edge of the Forest is live. Yes, I do realize it's now November and that I missed YALSA by 6 days. Still, it's a great issue with much to read. In short, here's what's in store this month:
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The Edge of the Forest will return the week of November 26 with a double November-December issue. If you have great ideas for a feature, interview or review, please drop me a line.
The September issue of The Edge of the Forest is now up.
Courtesy of Kelly at Big A little a, here is a list of some of the great features this month:
An interview with Phil Bildner, by Camille Powell.
An appreciation of Patrick McDowell's picture books, by Adrienne Furness.
Kelly discusses Anglo-American versions of Baba Yaga tales in Baba Yaga Heads West
I review Barry Lyga's Fanboy and Boy Toy
Kim Winters talks being on retreat in A Day in the Life
Betsy Bird (A Fuse #8 Production) tells us What's in their Backpacks?
Robin Brande is this month's Blogging Writer
Sounds from the Forest talks with Mary Anne Hoberman and Deborah Freedman (Brought to you by Just One More Book!!)
Plus, of course, reviews in all categories—from Picture book to Young Adult.
The September issue of The Edge of the Forest is now up. There are many exciting features for you, as well as the usual interviews, reviews, and more.
Here is what's in store this month:
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The Edge of the Forest is up. Haven't heard of it? It's on online e-zine devoted to Children's Literature. Guess who the newest picture book reviewer is? Me. Check it out. The link will take you to the page with my reviews, but poke around a bit and see what the Edge of the Forest is all about.
The September issue of The Edge of the Forest is now up. We have many exciting features for you, as well as interviews, reviews, and much, much more. In short, here's what's in store this month:
Don't forget to subscribe to The Edge of the Forest with our Subscribe feature. Just enter your name and e-mail address and you'll receive notification when each new issue is published.
The summer issue of The Edge of the Forest is finally up. It has many exciting features for you, as well as interviews, reviews, and much, much more. In short, here's what's in store this month:
The Edge of the Forest will return September 10.
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Just before ye hasten away to read it, don't forget the very spoilerific discussion of Harry Potter 7 will start tomorrow over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone - everyone's welcome to join in, so see you there...
Now ye may hasten away to The Edge of the Forest !
The Edge of the Forest is finally up. We have many exciting features for you, as well as interviews, reviews, and much, much more. In short, here's what's in store this month:
The Edge of the Forest will return September 10.
The biggest casualty resulting from the great summer computer crash of 2007 was the June/July issue of The Edge of the Forest. However, I have now found all submissions, features, and reviews and the issue will go up as a Summer 2007 issue late on August 1. It's a big issue, with many interviews and tons of reviews. I'll post here when it's up!
I've bitten off more than I can chew.
You all may have noticed that I love to organize. I also adore a good project. But in cleaning up my own archives, review notifications, and boxes of books this month, it's time to accept some facts about my limitations.
In a way, this sad post relates quite nicely to a meme tag from NYCTeacher: The Summer Goals Meme. So I'll be combining the two in a tidy Summer Goals/Facing the Facts list.
1. The Edge of the Forest. The Forest is my great love. And, I really wanted to avoid a June/July issue this summer. But, due to conferences and summer research/travel, I'm going to have to publish a June/July issue instead of two separate ones. The upside is that June/July and August will both be big issues. The downside is that I feel like a failure.
2. Children's Book Reviews. Children's Book Reviews is another of my pet projects. I really wanted to create a central place on the web where kids and parents can find blog reviews of books. Multiple reviews of the same books, even. I entered in the archives of about 10 blogs including my own and planned to continue down my list of 12 more blogs. But I can barely keep up with my own and the Forest's archives. I have to admit defeat here as well. However, I intend to still host Children's Book Reviews and invite anyone who'd like to enter in their reviews to send me an e-mail and I'll teach you how to do so. It's very easy, especially if you archive already. I get several hits a day from CBR, so someone is using it. (Fuse #8--I failed you most of all.)
3. Okay. So these are my big disappointed-in-self issues. Try to accept and move on to other goals.
4. Say no to all but one community/school volunteer "opportunity" for the next academic year. DO NOT agree to everything.
5. Participate in MotherReader's 48 Hour Challenge.
6. Exercise 30 minutes a day, even if it's only walking.
7. Write, write, write.
8. Enjoy hanging with the kids this summer.
9. Use the term "man flu" at least once a week for the next year.
On to more archiving, notifying, and stacking of books!
The May issue of The Edge of the Forest is up! Here's what's in store this month:
The Edge of the Forest will return June 10. Please let me know if you would like to contribute a feature story or a review.
The May issue of The Edge of the Forest is up!
Here's what's in store this month:
The Edge of the Forest will return June 10.
I'm looking for pieces for the May, June, and July Edge of the Forest.* Here's what we need:
- 2 Kid (or Teen) Picks articles
- 2 blogging writer interviews
- features of all types (please send me an e-mail with your ideas)
- original reviews in all categories (I have review copies. Again send me an e-mail if you're interested.)
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* The Edge of the Forest is still a venture of the heart. But I do have review copies :)
The Edge of the Forest (April) is finally up. Here's what's in store this month:
The Edge of the Forest will return May 10. If you're interested in writing a feature article or a review for the May, June, or July issues, please drop Kelly a line.
The Edge of the Forest (April) is finally up. Here's what's in store this month:
The Edge of the Forest will return May 10. If you're interested in writing a feature article or a review for the May, June, or July issues, please drop me a line.
I'm still editing the Forest (up today at 5pm CST), but I wanted to tell you about a great toddler book I read recently--Wag a Tail, by Lois Ehlert. I have a review up over at Book Buds.
Speaking of Book Buds, did you know Anne will be editing the children's pages for The Poetry Foundation? She gives us the scoop here and reports on a Jack Prelutsky event here.
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In the "it's my blog and I can if I want to" department, Eric Wilson profiles "the headmaster of fashion," Tim Gunn, at The New York Times. Now before you all start thinking I'm a major fashionista, I'll tell you that I appreciate Gunn as a teacher most of all. He's truly a master in the classroom. Take this classic comment, for example: "I appreciate what you're trying to do. Do I love it? No." Perfection.
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In the no comment, but some of you may be interested department: more celebrity, more books.
This weekend I linked to a Snape article in the Los Angeles Times during the weekend reviews. A Fuse #8 picked up on the story and it got me thinking this morning.
You see, there are some adults with Snape-love--adults and teens who are petitioning J.K. not to kill off our crotchety Potions master. I am one of those adults, though I haven't gone so far as to petition. Let's face it, it's J.K.'s decision in the end.
There are two issues here: 1) why do we think Snape is toast and 2) why do we love him so much? Here are my thoughts:
1) If Snape will be redeemed, he must die. And he must die proving Harry was wrong. In other words, he must die a hero. So he'll have to go saving Harry or fighting with the Order of the Phoenix for the greater cause. If he doesn't die, then Harry and friends will always suspect him and so will we.
2) I am beginning to think Alan Rickman is at fault here. I've been thinking about Snape in the books and Snape in the movies. While not one of the films has been as good as its textual inspiration, Alan Rickman has always been awesome. He is THE standout adult actor in the films. He has infused Snape with a campy humor that may be lacking in the books themselves. This may be why Rowling is surprised by Snape love. True he is a "gray" character, as mentioned in the LAT article, but he's not a funny one in Rowling's books.
There's another aspect to adult Snape love. (That sounds a little nasty, doesn't it?) Teachers and Professors love the man. He tells students what we all have longed to say at one point or another.
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Where am I? I'm in the midst of editing The Edge of the Forest, which will go up sometime during the wee hours of the 10th/11th. I'm off for more work....
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This is a call for submissions for the April issue of The Edge of the Forest. We're looking for the following this month:
- Feature articles
- Reviews in every category
Drop me an e-mail or a comment and let's talk.
So the latest issue of The Edge of the Forest is up and ready for your reading pleasure! And as a reminder, go to the Archive to get all past issues, including the February one, which I forgot to mention earlier. Oh! And if you're reading this a few months from now, just go to the archives for March 2007.
Kelly of Big A little a has a great list of what's happening at TEOTF. I was lucky enough to interview Kirby Larson, who wrote Hattie Big Sky, Newbery Honor winner. True side story: all during ALA Midwinter, before the announcements, I was pushing Hattie Big Sky as if I were working on commission.
Anyway.
MotherReader has an article, Be A B-List Blogger, and of course my first reaction was damnit to hell, because I'm a C-List Blogger. But then I tried again, and Yay, I'm a B-List!!! Here's the proof:
So anyway, check out MR's recommendations. Most of the things she mentions I learned the hard way; or just stumbled upon doing them, not realizing what I was doing.
In all honesty, it's not about how many hits you get or how many people subscribe via Bloglines or your technorati status .... Oh, I cannot lie to you all. Yes, that stuff does matter; because in the blogosphere, it's one of the few ways that a blogger can get a real sense that someone out there is reading the blog.
But the real, underlying point of MotherReader's article is this: the kidlitosphere, as with any blogosphere, is a community. And when you blog, you're a member; and to be part of that community, you need to communicate, not only with your blog, but with what and when you write; linking to people, in articles and sidebars and blogrolls, is another way to participate; as is commenting and keeping a conversation rolling from blog to blog. Because without each other, it's a little lonely.
We have many voices, many viewpoints; chances are, there is only one thing that we all agree on: We love children's and/or teen literature.
OK, two things. And we love to share that love.
The March 2007 Issue of The Edge of the Forest is now up. Here's what's in store this month:
Don't forget to subscribe to The Edge of the Forest with our Subscribe feature. Just enter your name and e-mail address and you'll receive notification when each new issue is published.
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The March 2007 Issue of The Edge of the Forest is now up. Here's what's in store this month:
Don't forget to subscribe to The Edge of the Forest with our Subscribe feature. Just enter your name and e-mail address and you'll receive notification when each new issue is published.
My talk for the New England Roundtable of Teen and Children's Librarians is in good shape (I think), I made two inquiries in the last few days and one fiction submission. Okay, it's not the kind of accomplishment Jane Yolen would even bother mentioning, but for me it was a big week!
So after doing so very, very much, I took a little time off this afternoon to finally take a look at the most recent The Edge of the Forest. My favorite articles? You care? You really want to know?
Well, I particularly liked Little Willow's (Allie's?) piece on Rachel Cohn because it led me to this interview with Cohn and David Levithan. (They wrote Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, of course.) Get this: Levithan edited sixty of the Baby-sitters Club books. Perhaps I should read one. If memory serves me, I recall a young male relative reading one or two in his younger days.
Another article I found particularly interesting was Michele Fry's Introduction to Penelope Lively's Works for Children. My knowledge of Penelope Lively is limited to her book for adults Moon Tiger. I have to admit that I don't remember a great deal about it. Except that at the time I thought it was fantastic.
So that's another author I need to read more of, should I live long enough to do so.
I'm seeking the following for the March issue of The Edge of the Forest:
- Reviews (picture book, non-fiction, middle grade, young adult, graphic novels)
- A Kid Picks column
Please send me an e-mail if you're interested. Have an idea for a feature article or an author or blogging writer interview? Then send me an e-mail as well.
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What kind of big announcement? Enquiring minds want to know!
We're taking on a Features Editor :)
Not to spill the beans or anything!
I hope that lightens your workload some!
I'm not putting my hand up for reviews because I'm trying in my own way to scale back a little bit, if only by not putting my hand up for everything (be it volunteering locally or online). I will continue doing occasional reviews, but I have such a ginormous reading pile that really, I'd do just as well drawing from that as anything else.
I would definitely be interested in doing a review! Check out my blog if you want some more info on me, or feel free to email me saraid at gmail.com
Thanks for the consideration!