Next Monday, Feb. 8, Cynthia Lord, author of The Newbery Honor award winning book Rules, will be coming to Mallett School to share her new picture book, Hot Rod Hamster. This event, which begins at 2 p.m., is open to the public, especially pre-schoolers.
We’re going to start out the new year with an exclusive interview with none other than The Year 2010 herself!
KB: Congratulations and Happy New Year!
The Year 2010: Happy New Year to you Kenny!
Twenty-five book suggestions from DDG’s Kenny Brechner, just in time for the holidays.
The results are in for the Mallet School Book Review Contest.
As you can see from this PW article, Simon & Schuster is now Selling e-Chapters of books. As exciting as this advance is it doesn’t go nearly far enough, which is why, at DDG, our crack team of scientists has just developed the next big advance for reading, the Corneal Lens “Pay as you go” E-Reading Register.
Sure we all sometimes feel like Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman, seen below at right, that we’ve got it all. Then again, given a wider field of vision, perhaps not. Let’s take the current book price war between Amazon, Wal-Mart, and now Target. You can read some current book industry articles on the price [...]
When I look at Ballet I don’t see what those who love Ballet see. Consequently I would never be found in the position of making important decisions affecting the production or direction of Ballet. Such reasoning has not commended itself to James Tracy, the Headmaster of the Cushing Academy in Massachusetts, a private college preparatory [...]
Two questions for readers are posed here, first of all…
Happy Hannukah Corduroy, coming this October, and the spring 2010 release of Happy Easter Curious George, got me thinking about the issue of classic franchised children’s book characters and holidays. These titles are great, but why stick to the run of the mill, usual suspect sort [...]
Objectivity, like high fructose corn syrup and polyester suits, is very much out of fashion. The triumph of relativism is such that objectivity is considered now more an historical curiosity than a concept to be applied seriously. Can the following statement, ‘Carol Ruiz Zafon’s new novel, The Angel’s Game is sensationally good’ be an objective [...]
Anyone wondering how e-books will really bring progress to the act of reading need wonder no further. Just read the quote below from July 7th’s Shelf Awareness.
“Amazon.com is applying for several patents on ads in e-books, according to Slashdot, which has links to the Patent & Trademark Office (old fashioned) paperwork. One example: “For [...]
