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Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Last week Janet did some trend spotting in her blog posts. It’s always fun to look toward the future with anticipation, figuring out how to adapt ourselves to the coming …
Unfortunate Trends: Waning Interest in Children’s Picture BooksRead More
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I recently read the results of a survey Scholastic conducted regarding kids and their reading habits in our increasingly digital age. I found lots of fascinating insight …
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Home, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Like Etta, I’ve been thinking about international reading recently, mostly because I’ve been in Europe. I’ve just returned from a jaunt to the United Kingdom and Romania (to attend my godson’s wedding), …
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Low 90s
Looking at the American Library Association’s lists of awards and prizes over the years, I see several authors and books from other cultures. The Mildred L. Bachelder Award …
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office
Last time I blogged I promised you, dear readers, that for just this once I would refrain from blogging about gruesome realities like Career Killers, Kisses of Death, …
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville office
Weather: Low 90s and muggy
A sentence on page 20 in Publishers Weekly‘s recent July 19 issue on children’s books for this fall caught my eye: “…It’s unclear whether parents …
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Hot and cloudy
Being a kids book’ advocate, I don’t think you can start little ones too early in grasping new experience from a book. Well, maybe I draw the …
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Hot and muggy
A recent quote in Newsweek from Anna Quindlen caught my eye: “Well, what is a book really? Is it its body or its soul?” I think that …
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Hot as you-know-what
The title for this post has a broader meaning than at first may come to mind. As I read the summer movie listings, review publishers’ offerings of …
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: Still hot
After writing about words for three days, I’ve realized that the hardest writing may be description–not dialogue–because description is more visual. It calls for painting pictures with words, …
