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Lightning quiz Fusenews today, folks! 

It is one thing to play Nellie Oleson, the much loathed villain of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, in a television show.  It is another thing entirely to write a book about the experience.  And certainly I would not have know that such an event had taken place were it not for Peter’s post on Collecting Children’s Books.  And that’s not even including the news about the children’s author that’s showing up in a soap opera!  Alas, you’ll have to read Peter’s post to see who it is for yourself.

• Quiz question, beauties.  Do you work in a county library that serves a population under 16,000 or a town library that  serves a population under 10,000?  Is your library in a rural area, with a limited operating budget, and an active children’s department?  And is your budget for books a bit diminished these days?  Want some free children’s books?  Then now would be the time to apply for this grant from The Libri Foundation.  I kid not.  Read through the rules, see if you fit, and apply before August 15th for a grant that will help you and your kids out.  And I am much obliged to Dawn Mundy for the link.

• You know what author I like?  I like Peter Dickinson.  He’s one of those blokes I’ve resigned myself to never ever meeting due to the fact that he is, y’know… British.  But if you had told me that he was still up for doing online interviews I would have scoffed and huffed and generally made a fool of myself.  That said, Scribble City Central has a simply lovely talk with the man up and running right now.  And if you don’t know your Dickinson, I advise you to go out and read Eva or The Seventh Raven right now.  Particularly The Seventh Raven.  Best school play meets hostage situation book for kids I’ve ever read.

• It’s not every day that children’s literature is so heavily featured on NPR, but Monica Edinger, Esme Raji Codell, and Peter Cowden have offered up their picks for summer reading on the show On Point with Richard Ashbrook.  Good choices to be found there.

• To be frank, when I heard that Louis Sachar had written a book for kids about the game of bridge, my first instinct was to think, “What next?  Golf?”  I still pretty much feel that way, even after having read Leila’s review of his book The Cardturner over at bookshelves of doom.  But at least I feel a little less weird about the fact that it even exists at all.

• Woah!  Woah-we-woah-woah-hold-on-there-woah!  Have you read the Oz and Ends piece on the new Indian edition of Mitali Perkins’ First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover?  Definitely the strangest bit of news in the course of all our whitewashing controversies.  Heavens above!

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