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September 21, 2008

Last week was a bit hectic, between Book Blogger Appreciation Week (the complete list of winners is here) and the announcement of the first Cybils panels (Poetry, Middle Grade Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, and Easy Readers, so far). But I did save up a few other links.

I'm honored to have received this beautiful "I (heart) your blog" award from both Becky of Becky's Book Reviews and Andrea from Just One More Book!. I'm touched, Andrea and Becky! I love your blogs, too. I'm supposed to nominate seven other blogs, and pass along the award, and tell them each that they've been nominated. You all know my position on that -- I feel that I show my appreciation for the blogs that I love by linking to them in my visits posts. And yet... this week I feel like I should do more. So, I'd like to go a bit further, and offer this award to the dozen blogs that I added when I first created my blog roll, almost three years ago, and that remain among my favorite sites: Finding Wonderland, Bartography, Read Roger, Read Alert, Kids Lit, Chicken Spaghetti, Tea Cozy, Big A little a, Wands and Worlds, Book Moot, Book Buds, and What Adrienne Thinks About That. I had pretty good judgment back then, didn't I? You guys all rock, and I do love your blogs. If you feel so inclined, please do pass along the award to others.

This just in, the September Carnival of Children's Literature is now available at Jenny's Wonderland of Books. Jenny includes quite a few links to reviews of classic children's books, as well as more modern fare. Jenny and I share a fondness for Alexander Key's The Forgotten Door, which makes me happy. You can also "Submit your blog article to the next edition of Carnival of Children's Literature which will be held October 26, 2008 at The Well-Read Child using our carnival submission form."
Speaking of Just One More Book!, Andrea and Mark have started an e-newsletter. The first edition contained: "announcements about (their) upcoming: * Picture Book Pilgrimage, * children’s book and literacy related conference activities, and * exciting autumn guests." You can sign up here.
Two fun posts from Emily at BookKids (the BookPeople Children's Book blog): Kids Books are for Grown-Ups, Too! and Grown-Up Books to Share with Kids & Teens. Of course I favor the former over the latter - Emily picked some great titles.
Congratulations to Susan Beth Pfeffer, whose Life As We Knew It made the NY Times Bestseller List for paperback children's books for the first time this week. She is very happy. I'm happy, too, because it's one of my favorite books.
Shrinking Violet Promotions has a reissue of a great post about self-care for introverts. If you missed this one last year, and you think you might be an introvert, you should definitely click through to check this one out.
I missed Talk Like a Pirate Day on Friday. But Sherry from Semicolon and Elizabeth O. Dulemba did not, and they have the scoop.
Elaine Magliaro shares poetry resources about fall at Wild Rose Reader. I especially like how she uses fall colors for highlighting throughout the post.
Jenny from Read. Imagine. Talk has a guest post at 5 Minutes for Books this week. She writes about children's books based on television shows, and has some surprisingly positive things to say. Also at 5 Minutes for Books, Lauren from Baseball and Bows shares a delightful story about her young son's degree of bookworm-ness.
Shannon Hale has a lovely new post in her "how to be a reader" series. This one is about "reviewing the review", and who, and what, a review is really for. My favorite sentence is "A review can turn the intimate experience of reading into a conversation that enlightens both sides." I like that idea a lot. Reading is such a solitary experience, usually, but in reviewing a book, we open up avenues for discussion. I like that!
And finally, my heart goes out to Amanda from A Patchwork of Books on the sad news about her son. I don't know why terrible things happen to good people, I really don't. But it does kind of put the recent financial news into perspective...

Wishing you all a peaceful week.

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This just in, the September Carnival of Children's Literature is now available at Jenny's Wonderland of Books. Jenny includes quite a few links to reviews of classic children's books, as well as more modern fare. Jenny and I share a fondness for Alexander Key's The Forgotten Door, which makes me happy. You can also "Submit your blog article to the next edition of Carnival of Children's Literature which will be held October 26, 2008 at The Well-Read Child using our carnival submission form."
Speaking of Just One More Book!, Andrea and Mark have started an e-newsletter. The first edition contained: "announcements about (their) upcoming: * Picture Book Pilgrimage, * children’s book and literacy related conference activities, and * exciting autumn guests." You can sign up here.
Two fun posts from Emily at BookKids (the BookPeople Children's Book blog): Kids Books are for Grown-Ups, Too! and Grown-Up Books to Share with Kids & Teens. Of course I favor the former over the latter - Emily picked some great titles.
Congratulations to Susan Beth Pfeffer, whose Life As We Knew It made the NY Times Bestseller List for paperback children's books for the first time this week. She is very happy. I'm happy, too, because it's one of my favorite books.
Shrinking Violet Promotions has a reissue of a great post about self-care for introverts. If you missed this one last year, and you think you might be an introvert, you should definitely click through to check this one out.
I missed Talk Like a Pirate Day on Friday. But Sherry from Semicolon and Elizabeth O. Dulemba did not, and they have the scoop.
Elaine Magliaro shares poetry resources about fall at Wild Rose Reader. I especially like how she uses fall colors for highlighting throughout the post.
Jenny from Read. Imagine. Talk has a guest post at 5 Minutes for Books this week. She writes about children's books based on television shows, and has some surprisingly positive things to say. Also at 5 Minutes for Books, Lauren from Baseball and Bows shares a delightful story about her young son's degree of bookworm-ness.
Shannon Hale has a lovely new post in her "how to be a reader" series. This one is about "reviewing the review", and who, and what, a review is really for. My favorite sentence is "A review can turn the intimate experience of reading into a conversation that enlightens both sides." I like that idea a lot. Reading is such a solitary experience, usually, but in reviewing a book, we open up avenues for discussion. I like that!
And finally, my heart goes out to Amanda from A Patchwork of Books on the sad news about her son. I don't know why terrible things happen to good people, I really don't. But it does kind of put the recent financial news into perspective...

Wishing you all a peaceful week.