Airborn by Kenneth Oppel has a very cool website that goes from a great introduction movie into the format of an old newspaper. Very slick. And congratulations go out to Oppel for winning the Governor General’s award!

TheStar.com – Children’s author soars
An article in The Toronto Star offers a glimpse into the work of Kenneth Oppel, author of the acclaimed Airborne as well as the Silverwing series.
Via places for writers.

DCBS – Discount Comic Book Service
This is definitely a place to keep on your bookmarks if you talk to kids who buy comics. The site offers specials up to 75% off cover price.

Grand Forks Herald: Madonna calls wealth overrated
Adding to her list of poor children’s books, Madonna is coming out with her fifth. This one is all about how wealth is overrated. Well, Madonna would know just as we librarians know celebrity crap when we see it.

The New York Times Movie Review | ‘The Polar Express’: Do You Hear Sleigh Bells? Nah, Just Tom Hanks and Some Train
Very vivid quotes from the review: “… most moviegoers will be more concerned by the eerie listlessness of those characters’ faces and the grim vision of Santa Claus’s North Pole compound, with interiors that look like a munitions factory and facades that seem conceived along the same oppressive lines as Coketown, the red-brick town of “machinery and tall chimneys” in Dickens’s “Hard Times.” Tots surely won’t recognize that Santa’s big entrance in front of the throngs of frenzied elves and awe-struck children directly evokes, however unconsciously, one of Hitler’s Nuremberg rally entrances in Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will.” But their parents may marvel that when Santa’s big red sack of toys is hoisted from factory floor to sleigh it resembles nothing so much as an airborne scrotum.”
Yikes!

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ASNE – National Edition News
The American Society of Newspaper Editors offers this site that carries journalism stories written by high school journalists across the nation.

Annual CCBC Award Discussions
The wonderful CCBC which is an incredible resource for librarians in the state of Wisconsin holds discussions of potential award winning books each year. The website offers a schedule for those discussions.

This writing contest offers a chance for new authors of science fiction, fantasy and horror to win prizes every three months and the chance at an annual grand prize. No entry fee so teens can enter without the need to gather funds together.