Not as rhetorical a question as you might have wished
From the promo blurb for My Double Life, by Janette Rallison: You know how they say everyone has a twin somewhere in the world, a person chance has formed to be their mirror image? Well, mine happens...
View Article>Write on your hand instead
>Remember how creeped out everyone got when Amazon remotely deleted 1984 from Kindles everywhere? Well, this is creepier. Now they keep a record of what you underline. The post >Write on your...
View Article>We Real Cool
> “To today’s children linear storylines are boring and only relevant in school. Providing access to [video] games/stories became one of the missions of our youth services department. We wanted to...
View Article>Becoming a Nation of Wusses
>The recent report about the reluctance of high school biology teachers to teach evolution really drives me crazy. Again. I think I am most bothered by the 60% of teachers who weasel out of or...
View Article>When there’s not an app for that
>And speaking of science, check out this smart SLJ article by Douglas Rushkoff about the perils of raising consumers, rather than creators, of digital delivery systems. While it is true that I’ve...
View Article>At least it isn’t just books
>Box Office Mojo reports that there are more movie sequels than ever before. The post >At least it isn’t just books appeared first on The Horn Book.
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Lunacy
Mother Goose waddled to the window. Ah, there was the moon, perfect and round, its light streaming into bedrooms everywhere. She sighed. Mother Goose was upset. How could parents say that…word, that...
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The kids I get; it’s the grown women who scare me*
Wow, those Twihards are certainly enterprising. *and yes, this includes YOU. The post The kids I get; it’s the grown women who scare me* appeared first on The Horn Book.
View ArticleYes, but look at $9.99 upside-down
Amazon.com’s announcement that it is acquiring Marshall Cavendish‘s trade book department is making me think again about last week’s blogosphere discussion re bloggers and publishers and review copies....
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Well, this bites
Here at the Horn Book we’ve gotten used to publishers sending us off-the-wall books. But this week even we were taken aback when we lifted the flap of a box and found this volume sitting on top of the...
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Moving moment No. 6
Ooh, who remembers this one? In 1982, the library systems of Chicago, Milwaukee, and San Francisco banned Margot Zemach’s Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven from their collections (Chicago, from where I...
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Does one size fit all?
illus. by André da Loba from the New York Times Leonard Marcus gave a swell talk about Robert McCloskey last night, but what’s really sticking with me is a response he gave to a question at the end...
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I don’t THINK anyone is trying to hunt me down
Last weekend my friend Lori was in town and we took the dogs for a walk in the schoolyard across the street. Three tween girls were hanging out on the jungle gym and as we passed they started...
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OMG
Here are two new YA books about the Rapture, starring teen girls. “It’s the end of the world as we know it / And Vivian Apple and Abigail feel fiiiine.” The post OMG appeared first on The Horn Book.
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The next great American theme park?
The Hunger Games is being made into a theme park. Amazon is opening a brick-and-mortar book store. It seems certain that the apocalypse is nigh. Before that happens, though, I have some ideas for...
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Crawl into a cave with a book, maybe?
Over on the Horn Book’s Family Reading blog, Kitty and Elissa are inviting you to share your stories about and strategies for helping children through what promises to be a difficult time for our...
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Just in time for Presidents’ Day!
I was wondering over on Facebook last week about what a series biography of our 45th president might look like, and my prayers have been answered. AS IF. But there is a new biography of Trump and I...
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Presidents’ Day + Snow Day = President Snow Day
Today some people are celebrating Presidents’ Day while others are observing “Not My President’s Day.” Because there’s still snow on the ground where we are (and for no other reason!), here are some...
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Unlucky Arithmetic: Thirteen Ways to Raise a Nonreader
Click here to download Dean Schneider and Robin Smith’s classic how-(NOT)to… From the March/April 2001 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.
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On “Unlucky Arithmetic: Thirteen Ways to Raise a Nonreader” (from 2001)
One of our most popular handouts at conferences and meetings has always been Dean Schneider and Robin Smith’s brilliant, biting “Unlucky Arithmetic: Thirteen Ways to Raise a Nonreader“(from the...
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