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Video Sunday: Less orange
I once served on the Newbery committee that handed the medal to The Higher Power of Lucky. Or, as I sometimes like to tell it, I was on the committee that handed an award to the book that got...
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Video Sunday: Hey, you like Turkish Delight as much as I do
Oh, wow. Just . . . wow. Some of you may already be aware of the Boogie Woogie blog, run by author/illustrator Aaron Zenz and his three kids. The fact that it may be the best blog out there in...
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Video Sunday: “It was just full of mouthwash”
The 90-Second Newbery submissions keep coming in!! Remember, there’s still lots of time to have your talented kids/students/neighborhood gamins submit their own shortened versions of Newbery...
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The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival: New York Style
If you’ve read my blog in the last year you may have heard me mention a little something called the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival. Said aloud it sounds like The 92nd Newbery Film Festival (which is...
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Fusenews: “Don’t Let the Pigeon Die Alone”
I hope you all took the time to notice the magnificent One Shot World Tour: City Living conducted by any number of our best bloggers in the biz. I had every intention of participating and then lost...
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Video Sunday: Sleepy post-Thanksgiving posting
Missed posting this last week. Those Peacekeepers really look spot on, don’t they? We’ll see how it goes but this trailer gives us a sense that The Hunger Games may be worth watching. Would have...
View ArticlePress Release Fun: Thalia Kids’ Book Club, 90-Second Newbery, and More!
Well, this is just delightful. The 90-Second Newbery returns and it needs YOUR new videos if you have them on hand. Check out the press release below if you don’t believe me. There are also some big...
View ArticlePress Release Fun: The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival Returns to New York City!
And I am SO going to be there. This is a crazy good line-up. Thalia Kids’ Book Club Presents The 2012 90-Second Newbery Film Festival Sunday, December 2 at 4 pm at Symphony Space All Tickets: $15 ($12...
View ArticleVideo Sunday: I’m only gonna break break your, break break your heart
Our good buddy James Kennedy alerted me to the fact that after his magnificent 90-Second Newbery show left New York City for other library systems in other states he received additional, incredibly...
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Video Sunday: “… drawing and doodling is a form of physicalized empathy”– Mo...
Oh, like I was going to start off with anything else this week. Dahl was robbed! During BEA, one of the women of the hour was our own Monica Edinger (who blogged about the experience here). Her...
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Fusenews: Quoth the winner –“I was at dog church!”
First and foremost, this: That would be Kadir Nelson’s tribute to the Schomburg Library in NYC. In an amazing bit of research you can see that he includes both the old Schomburg Library (now overrun...
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Children’s Literary Salon: 90-Second Newbery Film Festival!
In just 9 days the Children’s Literary Salon at EPL will be up and running again. And, as ever, you can watch the proceedings live from your very own home computer right here. This month, we’re...
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Video Sunday: *knock knock* Land shark
Good morning, my fine and frisky young denizens of this sphere upon which we make our homes. I’m particularly chipper today as I’ve just returned from a lovely trip to Boston where I attended the...
View ArticlePress Release Fun: 90-Second Newbery Film Festival Open for Submissions
It only comes but once a year. But when it comes, boy howdy is it cool! The press release below reveals everything you need to know, but I just wanted to add that the new website with its searchable...
View ArticleVideo Sunday: Sure hope you like music . . .
The news, man. It’s overwhelming. I look on my Facebook and my Twitter and it’s all I can see. The days when I could stroll along in blissful ignorance are long gone. This past week was particularly...
View ArticleVideo Sunday: Dedicated to Hadley and Fluffles
Hooray! It’s been an awfully long time but at long last Nathan Hale has a new Hazardous Tales story to tell. #7 in the series will be a WWII tale about bombers called The Raid of No Return and it’s...
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Video Sunday: “It has to be perfect”
This past Monday I had the honor of being Illinois State University’s 2017 Lois Lenski Lecturer, following in the footsteps of such luminaries as Leonard Marcus, Phil Nel, and many others....
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Fusenews: Steamroller Keep On Rollin’
News! Of a newslike variety, no less. Here’s a question for you: What is the oldest blogger conference in the United States today? If you said Bookcon you are actually not right at all. The true answer...
View ArticlePress Release Fun: 90-Second Newbery Screenings Are Heading To Your Burg
It’s that time again! No sooner have the real Newberys been announced than the 90-second versions of them start cropping up. In Film Festival form! Yep, the utterly charming 90-Second Newbery is on the...
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90-Second Newbery: The Latest Submissions of Some Brilliant Cinema
It’s that time again. Time for kids everywhere to make their own short versions of classic Newbery winning books to the screen. Today, James Kennedy stops by to show us a slew of newest brilliant...
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