The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boyby Jeanne BirdsallHardcover: 9780375831430, Knopf (Random House), $15.95Paperback: 9780440420477, Yearling (Random House), $6.99 The Penderwicks on Gardam Streetby Jeanne BirdsallHardcover: 9780375840906, Knopf (Random House), $15.99Paperback: 9780440422037, Yearling (Random House), $7.99This post was originally published here in May 2008. This post has been … Continue reading Book Review: The Penderwicks/The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
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Book Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows & Mary Anne Shaffer
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Societyby Annie Barrows & Mary Anne ShafferHardcover: 9780385340991, Dial (Random House), $22Paperback: 9780385341004, Dial (Random House), $14 This post was originally published here in August 2008. It has been edited from its original version. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Doesn't that make you want to … Continue reading Book Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows & Mary Anne Shaffer
Fall 2010 Picturebook Highlights: Random House
Remember back in January when I posted about ordering books that would be published this Summer 2010? Well, it's the end of April and guess what I'm doing.If you guessed buying books for Fall/Winter 2010, you'd be correct!Introducing the Fall 2010 Picturebook Highlights, beginning with Random House!Camille Saint-Saens's The Carnival of the Animalsmusic by Camille … Continue reading Fall 2010 Picturebook Highlights: Random House
National Poetry Month: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As spring so often brings a little rain into our lives, I thought I'd share my favorite rain poem with you. In particular the last line is something I often repeat to myself. The Rainy DayThe day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the … Continue reading National Poetry Month: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happy Birthday Hans Christian Andersen
Thank you to Google for reminding me that today is the 205th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen. Google has a five-image series of Andersen's Thumbelina surrounding their logo today.Andersen was a Danish writer and paper-cut artist who not only recorded tales from the oral storytelling tradition (in the style of the Brothers Grimm), but who … Continue reading Happy Birthday Hans Christian Andersen
Recognize that voice? Part 2
For the second time in as many years, you are now able to access my voice over the airwaves!I had the pleasure of returning to the WAMC radio studio in Albany, NY last week, along with Joan Grenier, one of the Odyssey Bookshop's co-owners.To listen to us talk about books (Joan about adult fiction and … Continue reading Recognize that voice? Part 2
Book Recommendations for 3rd & 4th Grade Boys
Emily, one of this blog's team members, and a grade school teacher, prompted this blog post. Actually, she asked me for this list over a year ago, and she knows how very, truly sorry I am that it's taken me this long to get it for her. Once I had done so, though, I thought … Continue reading Book Recommendations for 3rd & 4th Grade Boys
She said, He said: Novels with multiple narrators
A sales rep friend posed this question online today: I have a writer friend who is looking for YA (or adult) novels that are told in alternating voices. She wants examples where each character has a chapter and they go back and forth between points of view. It’s a bonus if the characters live in … Continue reading She said, He said: Novels with multiple narrators
Book Review: The False Princess by Eilis O’Neal
The False Princess by Eilis O'Neal 9781606840795, $16.99, Egmont (Random House), Pub. Date: July 2010 This debut novel was a delight! Very strong writing, a satisfactory conclusion, love, danger, intrigue, magic, a prophecy, and three princesses. After turning sixteen, Princess Nalia of Thorvaldor learns she is not the true heir. A prophecy made before her … Continue reading Book Review: The False Princess by Eilis O’Neal
Weak in the Knees
Has anyone else ever read anything that made them weak in the knees? I know I can't be the only one to have this much of a visceral reaction to reading. visceral, adj.1. characterized by or proceeding from instinct rather than intellect 2. characterized by or dealing with coarse or base emotions; earthy; crude When … Continue reading Weak in the Knees
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