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Q & A with K.L. Going
Children's Bookshelf spoke with K.L. Going about her new novel, King of the Screwups (Harcourt).
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Huzzahs for Humphrey
It’s not unusual for rodent characters to make it big in the world of children’s books. Currently, a humble hamster named Humphrey is riding his yellow hamster ball to popularity as star of a series of books by Betty G. Birney.
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Comics Briefly
NYCC09: Read Will Eisner on iPhone; Marvel Sets X-Men Stage; Focus on the DC Universe; Marvel at 70; Business of Webcomics; Women In Comics. Plus O'Neil NYU Comics Course and Death Note II on DVD
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Marvel Makes Motion Comics, DC Teases New Format
Marvel annaounced as new "motion comics" format and DC teased other new formats at yhe recent New York Comic-Con.
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Life in Comics: Can Creativity Save Comics from Troubled Times?
The writer muses on what revolution this economic crisis will bring to the comics medium.
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Children’s Comics Poised for Growth
Properties aimed at readers 13 years old and under were prominent both on the floor and in the panels and the booths for publishers such as First Second, Top Shelf, Oni Press and Archie Comics were bustling.
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New York Manga-Con 2009
Despite fewer manga publishers exhibiting this year, those on hand put there best manga forward.
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What Recession? Strong Fan Turnout for NYCC 2009
Despite the recession, tens of thousands of fans streamed into the Javits Center for the New York Comic-con.
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Scott Pilgrim Wins the Convention!
The oddest thing about the alternative graphic-novel publishers exhibiting at this year's New York Comic-Con was that, even though almost none of them had major new releases, they mostly reported decent-to-excellent sales.
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Despite Economy, Fan Turnout Big for New York Comic-Con 2009
The country may be reeling from the worst economy in years, but you couldn’t tell it from the tens of thousands of fans pouring into the Jacob Javits Center for the fourth annual New York Comic-Con.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/9/2009
Picture Books Hello, Good-bye Arlene Alda . Tundra , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88776-900-9 Alda (Here a Face, There a Face) attempts to enter a very crowded shelf with her photography book of opposites. For “push” and “pull,” she uses the example of a street crew trying to move a huge stone statue of Buddha; on the left side of the spread, they're shown exerting their w...
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Three's Scandalous Company
An Indecent Proposition Emma Wildes . Signet Eclipse , $6.99 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-22662-4 Regency fans will thrill to this superbly sensual tale of an icy widow and two decadent rakes. When the duke of Rothay and the earl of Manderville make a foolish and scandalously public wager over which of them is the more skillful lover, the firmly respectable and notoriously unavailable Lady C...
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Fiction Reviews
A Short History of Women Kate Walbert . Scribner , $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9498-7 Walbert—2004 National Book Award nominee for Our Kind—offers a beautiful and kaleidoscopic view of the 20th century through the eyes of several generations of women in the Townsend family. The story begins with Dorothy Townsend, a turn-of-the-century British suffragist who dies in a hunger strike.
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Nonfiction Reviews
The American Future: A History Simon Schama . Ecco , $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-053923-8 Past performance may not guarantee future returns, but it's the best we have to go on, contends this lively meditation on American history. Looking back from the tumultuous 2008 election campaign, historian Schama (NBCC-award winner for Rough Crossings) ponders four themes in American history as they pl...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 2/09/2009
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TCP to Publish Graphic Adaptation of Bill Ayers Memoir
Teachers College Press has reached agreement with William Ayers, the controversial University of Illinois at Chicago professor, lauded educational theorist and former leader of the radical 1960s Weather Underground, to publish a graphic novel adaptation of his acclaimed teaching memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher.
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Still Hungry After All These Years
Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 40 this spring, and Philomel is commemorating its birthday with the first-ever pop-up edition of this international bestseller.
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Q & A with Virginia Euwer Wolff
With the much anticipated release of This Full House, the final installment of the Make Lemonade trilogy, award-winning author Virginia Euwer Wolff spoke about creating the three books featuring LaVaughn, a teenage girl growing up in the projects, and Jolly, a young, single mother.
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Deluxe Young Adult Series Delivers
Dangerous gossip, star-crossed lovers, backstabbing friends, a notorious cad, an upstairs-downstairs romance. All are woven into Anna Godbersen’s The Luxe, set in 1899 Manhattan, which HarperCollins published in 2007.
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Los Angeles Conference Focuses on Children’s Holocaust Literature
“The truth of the Holocaust shatters the idea that the world is a trustworthy place and that we’re here to protect children. When it comes to literature, we must first tell the truth to the age of the child,” said Sinai Temple librarian Lisa Silverman in her opening remarks on Sunday, February 1, at the Jewish Literature for Children Western Conference in Los Angeles.
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