说真的，这本书太努力了. 它试图变得古怪, 它试图变得有趣, it tries to connect to 10-14 year old boys who liked Lemony Snicket, 多玩电子游戏, 我热爱空手道, 它试图成为一个词汇建设者, and it tries to teach the reader about imagination, 勇气, 跳出思维定势. In the end it succeeded in making me skim read to the end to find out what happened, 然后难以置信地说, “严重?“也许我太苛刻了. Chris Raschka is a Caldecott medalist after all. And there are some funny moments and some curious characters阅读更多→
What do 41,267 books look like, you ask? Well, they come nicely wrapped on 16 large pallets. They barely fit in our back receiving area. Then when you cut the shrink wrap and start separating them, those pesky boxes fill the rows. You have to fill the rows, unpack all the boxes, then fill up the row again. It can be a little insanity-inducing. Your only choice at that point is to dive right in. (Simon’s Cat is inspirational for this kind of work, (你知道)从周一晚上开始, the four of us have logged over 70 hours, 无数的蹲, 电梯, 前屈, 和背部阅读更多→
彼得·帕克，这是史蒂夫·乔布斯. In a 21st century twist on the superhero genre, Kevin Brooks gives us iBoy. Tom Harvey is a average teenager living in the lowerclass section of London, in a housing project rife with gangs, 药物, 暴力, 绝望和贫穷. Not one to meddle in affairs that don’t directly impact him, Tom keeps his head down and muddles along. On a day when he’s going to visit Lucy, a girl in the projects he’s known since childhood, Tom’s fate is sealed: an iPhone is thrown from the 3oth floor, hitting him in the head at 77 miles per hour, 他的头骨破裂阅读更多→
From The New York Times Motherlode: 冒险s in Parenting blog(Oct. 12, 2011): In the name of encouraging my kids to read, I’ve dumped my iPad’s Kindle app. 在很多方面，我都喜欢它. Every bookshelf in our house is two deep, with stacks on nearly every surface. I liked the idea of having at least some books take a less intrusive form. But I realized that no matter what I said, when I sat down in the evening during what I’d dubbed “quiet reading time” with the iPad, my kids didn’t believe I was reading. 他们经常是对的. . . . 一本书阅读更多→
22 year old Joel Bloom’s life is at a crossroads – literally. He can accept the decision of the draft board and go to Vietnam, 一场他反对的战争, 或者他可以逃到加拿大, a fugitive with little hope to return home. It seems that Joel’s destiny has been to go to 战争: he grew up in an industrial town in Massachusetts in the years following WWII, dreaming of fighting in the military or maybe winning the World Series for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But there’s always been something about conflict, 战争, politics and 暴力 that didn’t make sense to Joel, 没有人阅读更多→
出版商周刊(10月13日, 2011) reports: When Australian author John Flanagan arrives stateside in early November for a two-week, 越野之旅, 他会有很多话要说. 10月4日, Philomel published Ranger’s Apprentice: The Lost Stories, a collection of tales starring the characters from Flanagan’s bestselling 10-book fantasy adventure series. 11月1日, the publisher will release Brotherband Chronicles: Book 1: The Outcasts, the inaugural volume of a series that is set in the world of Ranger’s Apprentice but introduces a new cast of characters who embark on seafaring adventures. Ranger’s Apprentice, which has sales of more than three million copies in the阅读更多→
New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater has created something wonderful, 迷人的, 激动人心的, 在她的最新作品中独树一帜, 天蝎座的种族. It’s hard to say what I like most about this book – its breathtaking scenery and visceral sense of place; the pulse-pounding thrill of the wild horses racing on the beach; the lovingly crafted, superbly detailed characters (human and horse); the fact that it’s a unique blend of romance, 行动, 成年, and fantasy that feels so different from most everything else out on the YA market right now; or maybe, 简单的, the powerful honesty of a book well written, 精心编排, 和地阅读更多→
出版人周刊(10月. 13, 2011) reports: The finalists for the 2011 National Book A战争d in Young People’s Literature were announced on Wednesday. The nominees are: Franny Billingsley, 敲出和谐的声音, 凯西·道森编辑(Dial), 黛比·达尔·爱德华森, 我的名字不容易, edited by Melanie Kroupa (Marshall Cavendish); Thanhha Lai, 从里到外再回来, edited by Tara Weikum (Harper); Albert Marrin, 肉 & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy, edited by Michelle Frey (Knopf); Lauren Myracle, 发光, edited by Susan Van Metre (Abrams/Amulet); and Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now, edited by Virginia Buckley (Clarion). The winner will be announced on November阅读更多→
The October issue of our newsletter is out now! 带来图书皇冠登录welcome, info on new releases and cool websites, 书评, 有机会赢取免费书籍, author spotlights and much more to you, 我们的读者! Not signed up for our email mailing list? It’s easy- just find the Join Our Mailing List link on the right sidebar of this blog. (Or, click here) In the meantime, just in case you didn’t get one, check out the newsletter here. Did we mention you could win free books? 点击这里了解更多! 11/1/11 Update: The October Lucky Winner is Vicki G. 祝贺你!! 这个赠品现在结束了.阅读更多→