Ypulse Book Essentials: Tomi Ungerer, Reading At Books Of Wonder, Are You A Lit Wiz?
Posted by alli on 08-06-2008
Tomi Ungerer (One of my all-time favorites spotlighted in this NYT profile, reg. required. The Three Robbers, Adelaide, Crictor Oh, gush.)
- If you live in New York City (Huge YA Author reading tonight at Books of Wonder. I so wish I could be there.)
- Are you a lit wiz? (Take this lit quiz and find out.) (SLJ)
- Mimus is coming (Translation costs aside, this German book will finally make it to English readers.) (Publishers Weekly)
- Shelftalker visits Camden Maine (And the Children's Garden at the Camden Public Library…a book lover's fantasy.)
- Gwenda from 'Shaken and Stirred' (talked about Anne of Green Gables on NPR this weekend.)
- 'Bridging the Worlds of Books and Blogs' (This year's Kidlitosphere's theme in Portland, OR. Register today.)
- 13 Clocks (by James Thurber at the LA times. A classic.)
- '7 children's tales that Johnny Depp and Tim Burton should remake' (Super fun.) (Best Week Ever)
- The queen of all media [Oprah]… (is now recommending children's books)
- Cover to cover (Melissa Walker continues to facilitate and share author's "cover stories." Here's one from Undone author, Brook Taylor. Plus Melissa's third book in the Violet series, Violet in Private, went on sale yesterday.)
- At 1.3 million in sales ('Hachette Book Group USA, a Ypulse Books sponsor, hit an all time high for one-day sales for one of its books with release of Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga.') (Cynopsis Kids)
- We've been talking about this (Chick-lit covers… but here's more in depth coverage at Publishers Weekly)
- Friday's Fine Lines revisits Homecoming (by Cynthia Voight) (Jezebel)
