Fusenews: “Who is Fishface, and where can I find him?”
Required Reading of the Day: Roger Sutton already told you to read it, and now I’m backing him up. If you have not cast thine eyes upon Christopher Myers’s piece Young Dreamers in which he talks...
View ArticleFusenews: Pretty sneaky, sis.
I have a sister. Did you know that? Tis true. She’s not a librarian and her interest in children’s literature pretty much begins and ends with me, which is probably why she hasn’t come up before....
View ArticleVideo Sunday: Trolls, clowns, Harry Potter and drones
Happy Video Sunday to you! I’m pleased to report that I had so many delightful videos today that I had to save some for an upcoming weekend. Woo-hoo! So I’ve been pretty unaware of this Movies in...
View ArticleFusenews: Red-bearded ghosts welcome!
I begin today with news that is only tangentially children’s literature related. My excuse is that it makes me so happy I can hardly breathe. For Christmas I got the soundtrack of the musical...
View ArticleFusenews: Not seething with envy. It’s more of a percolation process.
So what’s the talk of the town these days? Well the relative brouhaha came about at the end of last week when ReedPOP announced a panel of “the world’s biggest children’s authors” in the field. That...
View ArticleThe True, the Cut, the Unedited . . .
So as I may have mentioned there’s a l’il ole book of mine coming out on August 5th by the name of Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature. Co-written with Jules Danielson (of Seven...
View ArticleFusenews: Because nothing says “birthday” like Barbarsol
First and foremost, hello. How are you? Are you having a nice day? So nice to see you here, but before we go any further I must tell you that you very much need to leave me. Just for a little...
View ArticleFusenews: The Snow Queen – There Can Be Only One
Howdy do. As per usual I’m going to direct you this morning to that lovely little Wild Things website where Jules Danielson and I have been posting the stories that got cut from our upcoming book...
View ArticleAnd now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for . . .
And by “you’ve all” I mean “me”. Yes, today marks the official release of my book co-written with Julie Danielson and Peter Sieruta, Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature!! To...
View ArticleFusenews: This. That. Those. (A Trilogy)
As per usual there are some Wild Things links I’d love to share today. Lemme see here . . . Well we got a real stunner of a review over at Chapter 16. That’s some good and gorgeous stuff going down...
View ArticleVideo Sunday: Sneaky Peek Edition
Currently I am maxing and relaxing in Stratford, Ontario enjoying a play or two. Just kidding. By my calculations what I’m actually doing as you read this is driving hell-for-leather out of Canada...
View ArticleKidLit TV: Not Bird, Nor Plane, Nor Even Frog Just L’il Ole Me
This falls directly into the category of “Me Stuff”. That said, some of you may be aware of the presence of Kidlit TV out there. Just to recap, it’s the closest thing we have right now to an...
View ArticleFusenews: “Who is Fishface, and where can I find him?”
Required Reading of the Day: Roger Sutton already told you to read it, and now I’m backing him up. If you have not cast thine eyes upon Christopher Myers’s piece Young Dreamers in which he talks...
View ArticleFusenews: Pretty sneaky, sis.
I have a sister. Did you know that? Tis true. She’s not a librarian and her interest in children’s literature pretty much begins and ends with me, which is probably why she hasn’t come up before....
View ArticleFusenews: The occasional library-centric “unruly pleasure”
I’ve done it again. Delayed my Fusenews too long and now this post is going to overflow with too much good stuff. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say. Me stuff for the start. And in fact, there just...
View ArticleFusenews: Trotsky, Harriet the Spy, A.A. Milne and More
You know what’s even better than serving on an award committee? Having someone else write about it. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I was on the judging committee for this year’s Boston Globe-Horn...
View ArticleFusenews: Not seething with envy. It’s more of a percolation process.
So what’s the talk of the town these days? Well the relative brouhaha came about at the end of last week when ReedPOP announced a panel of “the world’s biggest children’s authors” in the field. That...
View ArticleThe True, the Cut, the Unedited . . .
So as I may have mentioned there’s a l’il ole book of mine coming out on August 5th by the name of Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature. Co-written with Jules Danielson (of Seven...
View ArticleFusenews: Because nothing says “birthday” like Barbarsol
First and foremost, hello. How are you? Are you having a nice day? So nice to see you here, but before we go any further I must tell you that you very much need to leave me. Just for a little...
View ArticleFusenews: The Snow Queen – There Can Be Only One
Howdy do. As per usual I’m going to direct you this morning to that lovely little Wild Things website where Jules Danielson and I have been posting the stories that got cut from our upcoming book...
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