A Fuse #8 Production

November 21, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
By Grace Lin
Little, Brown and Company
$16.99
ISBN: 978-0-316-11427-1
Ages 8-12
On shelves now.

When an author wants to write their first fantasy novel for children, they'll sometimes fall back on the books they themselves loved as kids. If they were Alice in Wonderland fans they might go the route of Neil Gaiman's Cora...Read More

November 20, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (4)

This has been a season of firsts.  I did my first Albert Whitman preview a week or so ago.  I'll be doing my first National Geographic preview in the future.  And I've certainly never done a Lerner Publishing Group preview before!  That's the nice thing about New York.  Even if the publishers ain't local, there's no reason for them not to say howdy when they happen to be in town.

And howdy it was!  Two lovely ladies, Lindsay Matvick and Terri Reden,...Read More

November 20, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

And all too soon it's over.  Here's the last of the best of the week, my loves.

Lisa Schroeder at Writing & Ruminating
Alan DeNiro at Shaken & Stirred
Joan Holub at Bildungsroman
Pam Bachorz at Mother Reader
Sheba Karim at Finding Wonderland
R.L. LaFevers at Hip Writer Mama

And Chasing Ray has the round-up.

November 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (11)

I'm allowed to be a fangirl once in a while, I think.  Now I don't often get a chance to interview an author or illustrator from my own youth.  Inevitably they're either dead or no longer working in the field of children's literature.  But you know, there was one artist around when I was a kid that has stayed in my brain.  The guy who really introduced me firsthand to the works of C.S. Lewis, Kenneth Grahame, J.M. Barrie . . . basically almost every classic I know today.  His name was Michael Hague and to this day the man is s...Read More

November 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Here's who's on the menu today!

Sy Montgomery Pt 2 at Chasing Ray
Laini Taylor at Shelf Elf
Jim DiBartolo at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Amanda Marrone at Writing & Ruminating
Thomas Randall at Bildungsroman

And Chasing Ray has the round-up.