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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Carin Berger
Published: 19/10/2018Over at Kirkus today, I write about two new picture books — Nadine Kaadan’s Tomorrow and Nicola Davies’s and Rebecca Cobb’s The Day War Came. That is here. * * * Last week, I ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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Come One, Come All:A Conversation with Anastasia Higginbotham
Published: 18/10/2018A week from today at Parnassus Books, I’ll have a conversation with author-illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham about her newest picture book, Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Dottir Pr ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo: A Book Review in Verse by Oona Marie Abrams
Published: 17/10/2018At the age of ten I was told by the principal: Oona, you are a poet. So, I wrote poems from that day forward, through seven snowy midwestern winters and summers on the shores of Lake Michigan. ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #608,the 2018 Southern Festivals of Books Edition
Published: 14/10/2018That’s a post title with a handful of numbers, now isn’t it. Here’s what I’m doing this weekend, and it’s a little bit different. I’m typing this on Friday, because ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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Rules and Roadkill by Heather L. Montgomery
Published: 13/10/2018The gravel crunches as I pull my red RAV 4 to a halt at the edge of a dusty highway. I can just imagine my car asking: “Why is she stopping? What is she doing now? And, how come she’s poking at that D ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,Plus What I Did Last Week, FeaturingLiz Anelli, Marianne Dubuc, and Oge Mora
Published: 12/10/2018— From Ross Watkins’s Dad’s Camera, illustrated by Liz Anelli — From Marianne Dubuc’s Up the Mountain Path “… And so Omu spooned out some thick ... Read moreSource: blaine.org
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Let’s Indigenize Our Bookshelves & Fully Welcome Native Kids As Readers by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Published: 9/10/2018Abracadabra! I sought out how-to books about card tricks, guidebooks to seashells, and page-turning mysteries. Shortly after second grade, I’d begun perusing the Newbery Award shelf and won the summer ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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A Big Helping of Poetry by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong
Published: 8/10/2018How can we serve up poetry in a fresh new way? This is the question we ask ourselves each time we start a project. In our early books in The Poetry Friday Anthology series, we provided a “Take 5” appr ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #607: FeaturingUp-and-Coming Illustrator Sally Gardner
Published: 7/10/2018St. Basil’s Cathedral The first Sunday of each month is usually reserved for student illustrators or those just entering the world of children’s book illustration. Today’s art ... Read moreSource: blaine.org
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Ten Great Mentor Sentences from a Middle Grade Text by Kris Barr Paquette
Published: 6/10/2018I love a great sentence. You know the ones that just grab you and make you say, whoa! One of the suggestions I always have for the teachers I work with is that they model sentences from these fantasti ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,Plus What I Did Last Week, FeaturingMehrdokht Amini, Vera Brosgol, and LeUyen Pham
Published: 5/10/2018— From Caron Levis’ Stop That Yawn!,illustrated by LeUyen Pham — From Jacob Sager Weinstein’s Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian,illustrated by Vera Brosgol ̶ ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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COVER REVEAL: The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad
Published: 5/10/2018“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare asked that very famously centuries ago in a play you might be familiar with. I always took umbrage at that question. You see, in many cultures, including mine, names ha ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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Cover Reveal: YORK: THE CLOCKWORK GHOST by Laura Ruby
Published: 4/10/2018It’s been eighteen months since I wrote this post about York: The Shadow Cipher—the first volume in my middle grade alternate history adventure—and my cancer diagnosis. A lot has happened since then. ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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THE RECKLESS CLUB / When adults are the bullies by Beth Vrabel
Published: 3/10/2018When my dad was eight years old, his greatest ambition was for his teacher, Miss Hagley*, to ignore him. “She just didn’t like me,” he says now, nearly 60 years later. “I don’t know why, but she just ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM INSPIRE GOOD BOOKS by Christopher Healy
Published: 2/10/2018There’s a special kind of anxiety that grips you when see your child’s school on Caller ID. You can generally assume a teacher isn’t calling to say, “Your kid did nothing objectionable today—keep up t ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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How Can Two Authors Make One Story? A BACK and FORTH between Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs
Published: 1/10/2018Reichs: Hello, Ally! I’m excited that the amazing Nerdy Book Club is willing to let us chat in their forum about our new middle-grade scare factory, The Darkdeep. I’m going to dive right in with both ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #606: Featuring Night Out
Published: 30/09/2018I am sharing a picture book review today, if you’re so inclined to read it. Over at the Horn Book, they’ve posted my review of Daniel Miyares’ Night Out (Schwartz & Wade, ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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10 Positive Things about Aging We Need to Show Kids in Books by Lindsey McDivitt
Published: 29/09/2018Childhood is an important stage of life, but it’s time limited. The fact is—we all have lots of living to do beyond age 18, yet the images of growing older in books for kids are often skewed to portra ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,Plus What I Did Last Week, FeaturingJan Bajtlik, Lou Fancher, Steve Johnson,Steve Light, and Grady McFerrin
Published: 28/09/2018— From Steve Lights’s Builders & Breakers “The wind tickles us as we ride.”— From J.M. Brum’s Our Car, illustrated by Jan Bajtlik(Click to enlarge sprea ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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Book Chat with the Illustrator: Oge Mora
Published: 28/09/2018Book Chat with the Illustrator: Oge Mora from LB School on Vimeo. Oge Mora is a painter residing in Providence, RI. She grew up in Columbus, Ohio and graduated from the Rhode Island School of D ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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COVER REVEAL: On a Scale of One to Ten by Ceylan Scott
Published: 27/09/2018Ceylan Scott, author of On a Scale of One to Ten When I decided that I wanted to write a book, I was sixteen. I had recently been admitted to a psychiatric ward and overwhelmed with too much ti ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
