Ypulse Book Essentials: Discovery Girls, Quirky Families, 'Man on Wire'
Posted by alli on 08-14-2008
'Discovery Girls' (SLJ writes about the tween mag for girls 8-12, where a lot of the material is written by them. Cool.)
- 'Problem: Boys Don't Like to Read.' (The solution? "Publishers are hawking more gory and gross books to appeal to an elusive market: boys — many of whom would rather go to the dentist than crack open 'Little House on the Prairie.'") (WSJ)
- 'Quirky Families' (Reviews and such by Colleen Mondor at "Bookslut in Training.") (Bookslut)
- Remember the 2004 Caldecott Winner, The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers? (Well, a movie about the same man, Phillippe Petite is getting rave reviews: "Man on Wire.") (Shelftalker)
- Breaking Dawn (Blogger Gail Gauthier asks, have Twilight's characters outgrown their readers?) (Original Content)
- ALSC Oprah's pair up for a kid's booklist (I posted about this recently, but didn't realize ALSC was involved. Phew.)
- Oh, I love him so (I just saw the William Steig exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish History Museum in San Francisco. Here he is profiled in the Seattle Times.)
- The Monkey Speaks introduces Adlit.org (and discusses a more complete meaning of literacy. Great!)
- Huge Olympics resource list (at SLJ, K-12)
- 'My Brain Hurts' (Interview with creator Liz Baillie.) (Daily News)
- Actually…. (Kindle sales have gone up. Some are even saying it's the new iPod of the book world) (CNET news)
- The Vespa Chronicles (Simon and Schuster's YA book series, The Fashion Forward Adventures of Imogene by Lisa Barham, has launched The Vespa Chronicles, a free weekly newsletter following "the exploits of fictional heroine and fashion-forecasting intern, Imogene.")
- Tiger Eyes (is the latest Fine Lines feature over at Jezebel)
