Blog of the Day: Educating Alice
About the Blogger: Monica is a teacher; she's written books and articles on a number of subjects, including teaching history to children. And she's a fan of Alice in Wonderland.
About the Blog: Monica writes about children, children's literature, teaching children, teaching children using literature, and other sundry topics that come to her attention. I particularly like how she recognizes that there is no one size fits all for books and kids; she mentions how sometimes a class will adore one book, while other years, it's a "meh" reaction. Monica also talks about balance between being sensitive to students, yet challenging; and has written some great stuff about history, historical fiction and her concern with how fiction is used to teach history, and using primary sources to teach elementary students.
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Blog of the Day: Adbooks. Actually, a website.*
About the Blogger: Moderated by Krista; an open Yahoo Group.
About the Blog: The "purpose is to discuss books written for adolescents, or young adults (YA)." Adbooks has a schedule of books to be discussed, but discussion about any YA book is welcome. Adbooks is the home of the survivor-like JHunt Award for Young Adult Literature. I'm a member.
*Note: As explained in Blog of the Day: Spicy Reads, sometimes a blog isn't a blog.
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The February 2007 issue of School Library Journal is now available, in print and on-line. I'd like to welcome SLJ readers, who came here via my article in that issue of SLJ, Curl Up with a Cup of Tea and a Good Blog.
And those of you who are my regular readers and may not be familiar with SLJ, please go check out my article. It has my thoughts on why the kidlitosphere is such a happening place along with a list of must-read blogs.
For those who have only read it online, what you're missing: a photo of me blogging with Cheetah and Peter Parker. Getting the photo taken was pretty exciting, and I'll be blogging about that later this week. Also in the print version: some of the graphics and photos from the highlighted blogs.
If you're looking for more must-read book blogs, check out the blogroll on the left. And I'm also highlighting a blog a day, under the handy title and label Blog of the Day.
Cross posted at Pop Goes the Library.
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Blog of the Day: Spicy Reads: Ed Spicer's Teen Book Reviews
About the Blogger: Ed Spicer is a "first grade teacher by day; teen book lover by night" and was a member of the 2007-2008 Best Books for Young Adults (BBYA). He's also very active on adbooks and will be on the upcoming Caldecott ballot.
About the Blog: Ed has a Galley Group that acts as a publisher's focus group (publisher's galleys aka ARCs aka review copies. Not a ship.) At his website, which includes a blog, you can read the teen reviews.
Note: Some of the links on my blogroll are more websites than blogs; or, like Ed's, a mix of both. But, not wanting to change my catchy, original, unique, Blog of the Day heading along with the witty About the Blogger and "how does she come up with these?" About the Blog, I am using the terminology even when it's not entirely accurate.
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Blog of the Day: Debra Garfinkle's Journal
About the Blogger: D.L. Gafinkle. Author of teen books, including Storky and the upcoming Stuck In the 70s,* and chapter books. And a former lawyer.
About the Blog: Shares the ups and downs of writing and life in general, from receiving copies of Storky in German to her daughter's upcoming bat mitzvah, along with news on sales, revisions and author visits.
*I have an ARC of this!
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Blog of the Day: Blog This!
About the Blogger: Alessia Cowee. "Totally Random Nonsense and Bits of Brilliance from a Writer's Journey"
About the Blog: A writer's journal that shares different aspects of the craft : writing, getting an agent, doing freelance work.
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Blog of the Day: be the story
About the Blogger: J. Timothy King, and it's all about the story: "be the story is a blog and podcast about stories, for people who love stories, to experience them and to weave them, for readers and writers." Includes TV, movies, and books.
About the Blog: I love how this blog includes TV when it talks about story. Stories are not limited to printed words in a bound book. Tim doesn't post as much as I'd like, but when he does, it's good, like the recent post about Sylvia Plath and how (like me) he liked the movie despite it's flaws.
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Blog of the Day: Avenging Sybil
About the Blogger: Dawn Emerman; graduate of the Master's program at the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College; lifelong reader.
About the Blog: Named for the friend in Judy Blume's Forever, who, in Emerman's words, showed that "young women's sexuality is dangerous and will lead to bad consequences." In other words Sybil had sex, liked it, and ended up pregnant in a "who's the Daddy" situation. Avenging Sybil examines young adult literature and its treatment of female sexuality, especially double standards; with a hope towards seeing books in "which sex is a healthy part of a young woman's life and nobody pays an emotional price. Not just the main characters, but all the characters."
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Here's the thing: I blog on my own time. This isn't work connected at all. So I do this before and after work, and I have other things that I do (oh, you know, life, plus some training and workshop gigs and writing for other sites and print journals and the like.)
So that's my pitiful excuse for why I am never as good as say, Kelly at Big A little a when it comes to updating my links and letting people know I updated my links.
How I update: I see who links to me (from statcounter, Google, technorati); I see who leaves comments; I sometimes get an email. If you think I have
deliberately ommitted you, absolutely not. It's just a mistake, and I apologize. I thought I added you and didn't. So, just remind me in the comments (or if you prefer, an email to lizzy.burns @ gmail.com, remove the spaces) if you are a kid lit blogger and are not in my sidebar.
If it looks like a blog hasn't been updated in, say, six months (and I don't know the blogger personally), I will probably remove the link.
OK, that explanation given, what I have decided to do, knowing I will never be Kelly-like in my updating and sharing, is to go thru and highlight a blog a day. (Ha ha ha ha ha .... anyone taking any bets on that? More like a few blogs a week.)
Blog of the Day: Arthur Slade: Writing for Young Adults
About the Blogger: Art Slade is the author of Dust, one of my favorite books, ever. He writes books for kids and teens; and he's a member of the adbooks discussion group.
About the Blog: A combination of posts and podcasts; Slade blogs about his writing and life in general.
Liz, thanks so much!
Hi Liz,
I am looking foward to checking out Monica's blog! I just dusted off my historical fictin manuscript and I'm sure I'll find some helpful information.
I really stopped by say I enjoyed your article about blogging in SLJ. Everyone is my local SCBWI is talking about it!
I'll be visiting your terrific blog again.
Thanks so much!
Barbara
Monica, you're welcome
Barbara, thank you for the kind words about the article & I'll be adding your blog to my sidebar.
Liz,
I'd be honored to be in your sidebar! I wil add you to mine, too!
Happy reading and writing!