Archive for the 'Links' Category
March 8, 2010 @ 9:00 am | Filed under: Links, Photos
• Young adult lit comes of age – latimes.com — “I think part of the reason we’re seeing adults reading YA is that often there’s no bones made about the fact that a YA book is explicitly intended to entertain,” said Lizzie Skurnick, 36, author of “Shelf Discovery,” a collection of essays about young adult literature from the 1960s and 1970s.”YA authors are able to take themselves less seriously. They’re able to have a little more fun, and they’re less confined by this idea of themselves as Very Important Artists. That paradoxically leads them to create far better work than people who are trying to win awards.”
• Léna’s Lit Life: EDGES: ARC show & tell—Lena Roy is the granddaughter of Madeleine L’Engle. HT to reader Kay for the heads-up on Lena’s upcoming novel, due out in December from FSG.
• Hopewell Takes On LIFE!: When a book validates your own experience – Review of The Confederate General Rides North by Amanda Gable.
*Cute Boy on a Swing
Books, publishing, TBR, TBR pile, YA
March 4, 2010 @ 9:16 pm | Filed under: Links
This post about what to do with a roast chicken.
And this.
February 13, 2010 @ 9:22 am | Filed under: Links
- The Hidden World of Eloise: The designer apologises – How Twitter helped an artist protect her copyright. Social media WIN!
- In Appalachia, a Researcher Makes Honey From Coal – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education – “Her vision is to create nothing less than an Appalachian “honey corridor” in eastern Kentucky and neighboring West Virginia, starting with more than 33,000 surface-mined acres, which could be reforested in a way that sets up a bee industry.” HT: Monica @ small things—thanks so much for sending this my way!
- Who Is Mark Twain? by Mark Twain – Oooh, a TBR pile topper for sure.
February 10, 2010 @ 8:29 pm | Filed under: Links
- Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast » Seven (Give or Take) Questions Over Breakfast with Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm—Wonderful interview with BABYMOUSE creators Jennifer Holm & Matthew Holm. Fun & fascinating questions. I met Jenni at Comic-Con last summer. She’s a gem. Rilla makes me read (sing) BABYMOUSE: THE MUSICAL to her practically on a daily basis.
- Top 100 Children’s Novels (#85-81)—A Fuse #8 Production—Betsy Bird has begun posting the results of her Top 100 Children’s Novels poll. Loads of fun. Massive reading binge to be sparked here. Can’t *I* get snowed in for a while?
- BLDGBLOG: A bulge in the floor now 100 feet high—”It was thus amazingly interesting to read that no less than 1,799 earthquakes have occurred beneath Yellowstone since January 17, 2010—a so-called earthquake swarm.”
January 30, 2010 @ 7:13 am | Filed under: Links
- Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – Not cool.
- A Quick Note On eBook Pricing and Amazon Hijinx « Whatever – Author John Scalzi on Amazon’s eBooks: “I personally don’t buy ebooks with DRM on them, because I actually like to own the books I own. It’s a funny twitchy thing of mine. I’m not sure why other people are so willing to let that slide.” Ayup.
- Jenny’s Wonderland of Books: January 2010 Carnival of Children’s Literature – Woohoo! The Carnival of Children’s Literature is back! Many thanks to our excellent host, Jenny of Jenny’s Wonderland of Books, and to the Carnival’s new organizer, Anastasia Suen.
- Godsbody: The Eternal Smile by Gene Yang & Derek Kirk Kim – Matthew Lickona writes, “I think the book is kind of genius, and anything but modest, seeing as it takes careful aim at the unhealthy escape from reality that can be sought in both comics and religion, two things which are both hugely important to the writer. I’d call that pretty ambitious.”
Amazon, carnival, ebooks, kidlitosphere, publishing, TBR
January 28, 2010 @ 6:17 am | Filed under: Links
“The device was demoed with newspaper content from the New York Times and supports video and audio embedded in the content. Most importantly, the iPad will support the ePub e-book standard and Apple has developed its own e-reader software, iBooks, and will also launch an iBookstore. E-book pricing is reported to be in the $15 range.”
“In its haste to sort out the state’s social studies curriculum standards this month, the State Board of Education tossed children’s author Martin, who died in 2004, from a proposal for the third-grade section. Board member Pat Hardy, R-Weatherford, who made the motion, cited books he had written for adults that contain “very strong critiques of capitalism and the American system.
“Trouble is, the Bill Martin Jr. who wrote the Brown Bear series never wrote anything political, unless you count a book that taught kids how to say the Pledge of Allegiance, his friends said. The book on Marxism was written by Bill Martin, a philosophy professor at DePaul University in Chicago. “
• Cybils: REVIEW Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
“This absorbing story told from the viewpoint of Jason, a boy with autism, would appeal to readers who enjoyed The London Eye Mystery or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, says Abby.”
ebooks, education, iPad, TBR, Technology
January 22, 2010 @ 11:02 am | Filed under: Links
• A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy: Covers – LizB reflects upon the Bloomsbury cover controversy, with links to other posts. MotherReader has some thoughts as well.
• Brooklyn Arden: The Best YA You Haven’t Read – more TBR madness. Oh, my list, she will not stop growing.
• 2010 Scott O’Dell Winner « educating alice – another for my TBR pile: The Storm in the Barn.
• The wonderful Anastasia Suen has taken the reins for the Carnival of Children’s Literature. She has almost a full slate of hosts lined up for 2010 already—thanks so much, Anastasia! The January Carnival will be hosted by Jenny’s Wonderland of Books on January 30th You may submit a post by the 29th via the BlogCarnival submission form.
kidlitosphere, publishing, TBR
January 21, 2010 @ 5:17 pm | Filed under: Links
• Lost Ladybug Project – Tabatha thought this post about a ladybug species counting project might be up our alley. She was SO RIGHT. I do believe my gang will try to take part in this.
•Learn Sign Language – Signing Time News » From Rachel: Happy Birthday, Emilie! – HT to pal Sarah for this lovely tribute from one sister to another.
• Sarcasm punctuation mark to put an end to email confusion – Oh, I’m SO SURE that will work. No more email confusion, EVER.
• And this one’s for Helen, who noticed the photos of a finch stealing a sip from our hummingbird feeder. This little guy amused me for a good half hour last week, the way he kept sipping and then taking surreptitious looks around, as if the other finches would never let him live it down if he* got caught drinking the hummingbirds’ koolaid.
* I say “he,” but I’m guessing. He’s a male house finch, yes? I admit I have a hard time telling the house finch and the purple finch apart.
January 18, 2010 @ 6:45 pm | Filed under: Links
- Craft Hope by crafthope on Etsy – “All proceeds of the Craft Hope Etsy shop will benefit Doctors Without Borders in Haiti. All items have been generously donated by the crafting community. If you’d like to donate an item please visit the Craft Hope website (www.crafthope.com).”
- FT.com / Reportage – Moscow’s stray dogs – “Every so often, you would see one waiting on a metro platform. When the train pulled up, the dog would step in, scramble up to lie on a seat or sit on the floor if the carriage was crowded, and then exit a few stops later.”
- Cybils: REVIEW The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner – “This Scientists in the Field title is about Berkeley professor Tyrone Hayes and his research into the effects of pesticides on frogs.” TBR!
- Flying Bicycle Lane Lets You Soar Above Traffic | Inhabitat – Can you imagine?
- What America owes to Haiti | Cranach: The Blog of Veith – “So if you are glad America’s independence was not snuffed out shortly after birth, and if you are glad you are not ruled by the French, and if you live in what used to be the Louisiana Purchase, thank the Haitians.”
engineering, Haiti, Handcrafts, nature, russia, TBR, Technology
January 17, 2010 @ 7:35 am | Filed under: Links
- Five Minutes a Day for Fresh-Baked Bread – Have had my eye on the book for a while…thanks, Melanie, for this link.
- Babushka Flash Drive available at Delight.com – How much more could I adore this thing? None more, is how much.
- Tour of Manhattan based on ‘Stuart Little,’ ‘Eloise’ and other children’s books – washingtonpost.com -
