Teenlibrarian offers a podcast interview with VOYA editor, Cathi Dunn MacRae that gives a glimpse behind the scenes of VOYA . If you haven’t tried listening to podcasts yet, this is a great way to get started.
Month: August 2005
Escapist
The Escapist is an intelligent online gaming magazine. This is exactly the sort of information that libraries wanting to do gaming programs for teens are interested in.
Wayfarers All
wayfarers all is a children’s lit blog. Recent posts have been on the new Willy Wonka movie and Harry Potter 6.
African American Children's Lit
The Journal of African American Children’s Literature offers a website that provides links to useful websites, features African-American authors and illustrators, and lists news and book reviews.
Claremont Review
The Claremont Review is a literary magazine that publishes writings by teens. The site features some samples from their first issue, as well as information on their writing contests and resources to aid young adults in getting their writings published.
On Wings of a Dragon
On Wings of a Dragon by Cora Taylor is a great book I found because School Library Journal is having me review the sequel. I hadn’t read or even heard of the first book, but I am so happy that SLJ asked me to review the second because I got to discover another very talented Canadian children’s book author.
On Wings of a Dragon is the story of two girls. First is Kour’el who is trapped alone in a tower cell until she finds a tiny dragon who used to be a Great One, or huge dragon. Her story is how they grow stronger, and the dragon grows bigger, and they escape. Meanwhile, Maighdlin, a girl in a small village is gathered up by the queen’s soldiers and taken to the palace to work as a servant girl. Servants are always disappearing from the castle and never return to their villages, so it is seen as a death sentence. Her grandfather and another girl’s boyfriend follow the girls in the hopes of rescuing them.
The many stories converge into a single story by the end and readers will find themselves in a rewarding book that is fresh and new, despite its traditional epic fantasy setting. The characters are multidimensional and sparklingly written.
Recommend this to fantasy readers, especially those who enjoy dragon stories or stories with strong female protagonists.
Baldacci Writes for Kids
TimesDispatch.com | Fries with that? Baldacci takes a child-oriented detour
David Baldacci joins a growing list of authors of books for adults who are writing children’s books. I enjoy the fact that this started as a bedtime story for his children.
Harry Potter Beats Its Own Record
Library Journal – Half-Blood Prince Sets Sales Records, Bests Order of the Phoenix by 20 percent
I suppose we could have guessed it! After all, so many people have purchased their own copy in our community that the hold list for the library copies is very small. A record 6.9 million copies were sold in the first 24 hours in the U.S. alone!
Mary Hoffman Article
A nice article on Mary Hoffman and continuing her Amazing Grace series that started as picture books and now continues as chapter books.
Waking Brain Cells 