Readings

• End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup December 7, 2009
  Quick links from around the kid-lit blogosphere: A 1942 Christmas miracle. School Library Journal just reviewed some of this year's notable holiday reprints and new releases, including an inarguably darling 1942 classic, A Christmas Manger, by H.A. Rey. ("Featuring Rey’s original artwork, the book has been cleverly redesigned in “Punch- […]
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• Navigating The Intent of a Fickle Author (Guest Blogger Jesse Bullington) December 5, 2009
  [Now that we've reached the end of the week I want to profusely thank Tom for putting me up here, Jeff VanderMeer for introducing us, and everyone for reading, it's been a great week! On to the finish line...]I veer wildly from taking myself too seriously to not taking myself seriously enough. This has always been the case, the same kid who cried a […]
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• Update from the Library of Congress and Between Books: Nearing the End of Herculean Book Tour December 5, 2009
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• When a Bad Cover Keeps You From a Great Book December 5, 2009
  In this Sunday's NYT Book Review, Joe Queenan writes, not about the best covers, but some of the worst in his collection, or at least the ones that, he realizes, have kept him from reading books he might otherwise have enjoyed. Exhibit A is a movie tie-in cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (featuring the "promiscuously cute" Elijah Wo […]
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