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Edinburgh book festival chief wants authors, not celebrities - Some literature festivals focus on stars first and books second, says Nick Barley, director of the Edinburgh international book festival A book festival ...
Boing Boing

Monkey Room cocktail menu - Here's a cocktail menu from the Monkey Room, a drinking establishment once ensconced in Spokane, WA's Sillman Hotel. What a lovely piece of design, and wha...
Bookwitch

Hollow Earth - There is no absolute rule that because you are good at one thing – and successful and famous and stuff – that you can’t therefore also do something else, a...
gwarlingo

Found: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Valley Curtain - It’s been a while since I’ve shared a find from my ephemera collection. For my last “Found” post, I published two vintage images of two comic odd c...
Nathalie Foy

Bibliophile’s February - The month of Valentine’s Day should also include love for books, and I’m looking at some reading memoirs this month that explore the authors’ love. Please...
MOBYLIVES

Issuing a defiant statement, B&N joins indies in banning books published by Amazon - Let me get this out of the way: I told you so. Late yesterday, in a dramatic statement from its Chief Merchandising Officer, Jaime Carey — why it wasn’t t...
A Fuse #8 Production

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Pickle Me This: Online Home of Kerry Clare

Stopping for Strangers: by Daniel Griffin - The stories in Daniel Griffin’s collection Stopping for Strangers are the kind of of stories that will annoy people who think that they don’t like short st...
Light reading

Better late than never - Colleen Mondor's blog Chasing Ray has been a pleasure of mine for many years now, and Colleen herself a wonderful correspondent and internet friend. Her b...
Quill & Quire

Book events slideshow: Canada Reads, Ottawa’s first all-women’s poetry slam championship, and more - Every Tuesday Quillblog rounds up photos of book-related events across Canada. If you would like your event photos to be considered for our weekly feature,...
Meg Rosoff

Yeee haw! Charmed I’m sure. - I’d barely unpacked from a book tour of Amsterdam and Belgium when I had to head straight into a tour of America. Yesterday, I was in Washington D.C., Bost...
bookshelves of doom

Reading Kills. - Reading Kills from Beto Gomez on Vimeo.
ACHOCKABLOG

Bizzy Bear on the Farm Review - GiggleApps - iPhone App Reviews for Kids and Parents « GiggleApps - Bizzy Bear On The Farm Enthusiastic GiggleApps review of a Nosy Crow interactive book....
Literature and lunacy

Apple sauced. - I have just been taught to make apple sauce, life will certainly improve from here. All that may have once seemed insurmountable shall now be overcome. *
MotherReader

Thoughts from the Comment Challenge - Why aren't people commenting on my blog? It's a common complaint, a question for the blogging ages. There are big picture answers that highlight content, e...
A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy

Sydney Taylor Book Awards - The 2012 Sydney Taylor Book Awards have been announced! “The Sydney Taylor Book Award honors new books for children and teens that exemplify the highest li...
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Brian Biggs Before Breakfast - A visit, that is. From Brian. Before breakfast. I do have strong coffee out, though. Last year, one book I very much liked on many levels was author/illust...
32 Pages

Snow Elephants of Canada - Unequivocally, The Collector of Moments is a work of art. It is a picture book yes, sold in the children’s section of a bookstore, but it defies categoriza...
ArtsBeat» Books

A New Honor for the Hatchet Job - A new literary award honors the best hatchet job of the year.
Chicken Spaghetti

Finding Good Children's Books - Over at What Do We Do All Day?, you'll find an excellent post about ways to locate good books for children. The blog kindly includes a nod to Chicken Spaghet...
crooked house

Maud Newton on Victorian Children and Forbidden Fruit - "Here child, give me that apple before it poisons you." Maud has been reading about Bertrand Russell and discovered this passage in his autobiography : I rem...
I Heart Picture Books

WildWood - Well, I have taken long enough of a break from this blog of mine that I love. But in order to keep loving it, I sometimes must abandon it and then c...
Collecting Children's Books

A Brunch with Lots of Links - Last week we were wondering what would win (seven “w words” in a row!) the American Library Association’s children’s book awards. Now we know. This week’s ...
educating alice

SleepVolking a la Jack Gantos - Yesterday one of my 4th grade students was reading the ARC of Dead End in Norvelt (choosing it over the also-on-display hardcover) and came over to ask me ...
:: windy ::

Lanterns - This weekend we'll be at attending the annual New Year's parade. And we're making classic lanterns for the house. There a many good tutorials online to ...
(Inside A Black Apple)

A B.B. for a B.B. - Thank you so very much for all your kind Oddfellow's book-birthday comments and well-wishings! This was a really exciting week. And to say hello before the w...
Tough City Writer

Bribing Kids with Banned Books - An interesting take on how to entice kids to read. Give them banned and challenged books.
Mouse-traps and the Moon

Lewis, lewis bo bewis - In our house we play a lot of word games. A typical dinner-hour will find us enumerating one food/drink/family member/friend/song/dinosaur/you-name-it for ...
Neil Gaiman's Journal

A speech I once gave: On Lewis, Tolkien and Chesterton - *I gave this speech in 2004, to the Mythopoeic Society. I thought it was already somewhere on this website, but it isn't, it's only up at the Mythopoeic So...
BookLust

Oh, How I Love TVO! - I can't believe how fortunate I am. Last week I got to speak on a TVOParents panel about children's illustration with the fabulously talented author/illustra...
Maud Newton

Ellen Ullman on early, humanities-based programmers - “I’ve always written. I’m from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the socia...
simply read blog

beautiful Alice - There are quite a few beautiful Alice in Wonderland editions out there. (One published by us, in fact, and illustrated by the extremely talented Iassen G...
Children's Book Reviews

Zero - Author: Kathryn Otoshi Illustrator: Kathryn Otoshi Publisher: KO Kids Books There is no greater value than the value we find in ourselves. It’s very tough ...
The Henry Books

Notices noticed - So nice to see our little book out making friends in the world.... "A beautiful book, and perfect companion to *Where You Came From* and *When You Were Sm...
art.books.children

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Book By Its Cover

Todos Fazemos Tudo - This book couldn’t be more awesome. The illustrations are fantastic, the colors are bright and then the flipping is astonishing. Each new flip is so impres...
The Picnic Basket

All the Way to America • Picture book - *All the Way To America: The Story of A Big Italian Family and A Little Shovel* written and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino Available now • Knopf Books for Y...
We Heart Books

A Golden Age - Golden Books have had such a well deserved resurgence in the market over the last couple of years. As a series they have been around for 65 years – can y...

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