A Fuse #8 Production

November 8, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

It seems a touch unfair that any one person should have as much talent in her bones as Yuyi Morales. This year she illustrated Tony Johnston's My Abuelita, but did so with photographed figures rather than straight-out illustration.  In this video, you can see her process.  You can also read an in-depth account about it on he...Read More

November 7, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

An FYI for those of you who happen to be in town and would like to see Mr. Westerfeld do his thing.

November 7, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (7)

I started working at the Central Children's Room at the Donnell Branch of NYPL around four years ago.  While working there I often spoke with author Esther Hautzig, an author and volunteer who dedicated much of her time and energy to the place.  Esther was lovely, and I understood her to be an author.  What I did not understand was her history, and how it informed her work over the years.

At the age of nine, in 1939, Esther and her family were put on a deportation train by the invading Russian army and shipped to Siberia. This later appeared in her memoir for children, The Endless Steppe.  After that she was sent to America and eventually ran the publicity and libr...Read More

November 6, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (5)

• Working with Pooh Bear is lovely. He is polite and refined.  A little honey in his pot and that is all that he requires. Really, he's the perfect working companion. But this new girl who just moved in? Ugh! Talk about a holy terror. If she's not running helter-skelter around the building she's dumping our new books down the nearest unused book drop to see where they go. Pooh and I have decided that we'll just relegate her to the archivists and let THEM handle her from here on in. L...Read More

November 5, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

Y'all like free books and I like debut authors.  Two great tastes that taste great together then.  Take note fellow librarians:

The YA and MG authors of the 2009 Debutantes are giving away a 46-book set of their debut novels to ONE lucky library, anywhere in the world! In light of recent budget cuts to libraries in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and other communities, these debut authors would like to contribute their library to your library, offering up brand new novels for your patrons at no cost.

The collection includes #1 New York Times bestseller WINGS, by Aprilynne Pike, critically-acclaimed novels THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH by Carrie Ryan, HATE LIST by Jennifer Brown, FLASH BURNOUT by L.K. Madigan, TWENTY BOY SUMMER by Sarah Ockler and THE SEASON by SARAH MACLEAN, Juni...Read More