Sci Fi Wire has the story that Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to create a film of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
Month: January 2006
Author Senator Kennedy
Add another political name to the celebrity children’s book list. Senator Ted Kennedy has wirtten a book with his dog, Splash titled My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington D.C. It will be released in May of this year.
Storynory
Storynory offers i-Pod ready stories for children. Cool! They have a blog with updates and reports on children’s literature topics that has an RSS feed too. Just so you know, iPod ready does not mean you must have an iPod or any other mp3 player, you just have to download iTunes and you will be able to listen to them on your computer.
Bella's Children's Book Section
BellaOnline has a special section on Children’s Books filled with book reviews and discussions. You can also subscribe to their RSS feed.
Survival
Survival Unit Intro from the Montain City Elementary School in Mountain City, Tennessee is a nice unit for classrooms based on Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet and Theodore Taylor’s The Cay. The unit includes questions and activities for each book, information on safety, natural disasters and survival techniques, true stories of survival, and quizzes.
Bookslut on Children's SF
Bookslut has a great article on upcoming science fiction for kids. Books included are Rocket Science by Jay Lake, The Aquanauts by John Lunn, Animus by Seonna Hong, and Kids’ Night In Volume 2.
Easy Kids Crafts
Easy Kids Crafts has a great collection of basic crafts. They include making clay, sand castle molds, ornaments, party favors, and puppets. They all use supplies you will already have at home or items that are inexpensive. They are also real crafts that kids will enjoy and that you as a parent or supervisor can handle too.
Edublog Awards
I am behind in posting this, but feel it is worth posting about anyway, if you haven’t alreaday seen it. The Edublog Awards were announced in mid-December. They have great categories and wonderful blogs to add to your list of subscriptions. If you are a teacher or school librarian who works withi technology, there will be many links of interest to you.
Thompson Wins Whitbread
Kate Thompson has won the Whitbread Children’s Book Award for The New Policeman. According to her biography on the site, she has won other awards for previous books, but I haven’t read any of them. The titles sound like she writes fantasy, one of my favorite genres, so I may have to dig them up.
Waking Brain Cells 