Feb 6, Freelance Illustrator from Malaysia
Updated: 2012-02-06 00:35:44
Tina Paul, Freelance Illustrator I was born in Perak, Malaysia in 1984. My love for art came at a very early age. As a child I was always drawing- Tina Paul, Freelance Illustrator I was born in Perak, Malaysia in 1984. My love for art came at a very early age. As a child I was always drawing
Feb 5, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White: Pig Saved by a Spider!
Updated: 2012-02-05 16:07:40
Charlotte's Web is about a sweet pig named Wilbur who avoids slaughter twice. The first time his savior is a girl named Fern. Later he's saved by Charlotte, a spider, and Templeton the Rat.Feb 5, Totally Bored Boris: What Boredom Is and How to Beat It!
Updated: 2012-02-05 14:41:16Totally Bored Boris is a young boy bear with no particular interest at the moment. This book by Hans Wilhelm not only explains boredom but also shows how to beat it!Feb 5, I Want My Hat Back: What Really Happened to Bear's Hat?
Updated: 2012-02-05 14:27:50A very polite bear can't find his hat, and he wants it back. In Jon Klassen's I Want My Hat Back, it seems like someone (wearing a hat!) has something to hide.Feb 4, Dimitrios Sokolakis, Children's Book Reviewer: Biography
Updated: 2012-02-04 01:14:31Children's book reviewer Dimitrios Sokolakis is a Greek businessman with three daughters and, thus, an interest in children's books!Feb 3, Me...Jane: Future Scientist Jane Goodall as a Girl
Updated: 2012-02-03 17:29:19In Me...Jane, Patrick McDonnell weaves images and words to make Jane Goodall's future in Gombe with the chimps seem practically pre-ordained. This touching bookFeb 3, Grandpa Green by Lane Smith: Topiary Memories!
Updated: 2012-02-03 16:34:21In Lane Smith's Grandpa Green, a boy introduces us to his great-grandfather by way of the grandfather's topiary garden and what the sculptures mean to him.Feb 2, Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry - Math Needed to Survive!
Updated: 2012-02-02 15:46:00Cindy Neuschwander's Mummy Math: A Geometry Adventure features two kids who get locked in a pyramid trying to help their scientist parents find an ancient pharaoh. Using GeometryFeb 1, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin: Minli's Journey
Updated: 2012-02-01 15:13:46Minli is a young girl intent on improving her family's fortune in Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Review. Searching for the Old Man of the MoonAnother Self-Publishing Success Story
Updated: 2012-01-31 09:17:56
When Brittany Geragotelis was writing her YA novel Life's a Witch, she posted it chapter by chapter on Wattpad, an online community for sharing writing and getting feedback from readers. Gradually, she gained 13 million fans. But despite that and an active blog, YouTube presence, and proving her chops as editor of American Cheerleader magazine, [...]Jan 29, A Ball for Daisy: Dogs Don't Use Words; Neither Does This Book!
Updated: 2012-01-29 23:45:10Chris Raschka's A Ball for Daisy is a wordless picture book telling the story of a dog whose prize red ball bursts. Kids will relate to both the joy and the sense of lossCarnival of children's literature - January 29th, 2012
Updated: 2012-01-29 05:45:01CARNIVAL OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE is now up at Delightful Children's Books: January Carnival of Children?s Literature!Tweets Become New Currency for E-Products
Updated: 2012-01-27 16:14:39You know it's essential these days that authors market their books, and social media is often the most cost-effective way of doing that. Now, Pay with a Tweet lets you utilize the value of your readers' social networks to spread the word about your new books. You create a button for your website or blog [...]Jan 24, Personalized Children's Books by KD Novelties
Updated: 2012-01-24 13:34:37 KD Novelties We offer a large selection of personalized books, personalized music and personalized photo DVDs where your child is the star of all ofJan 24, The new Caldecott Award winners
Updated: 2012-01-24 01:40:04The new Caldecott Medal and Honor books were announced today. We haven't reviewed them YET, but we have the list! Order them from your library before everyone else does!105 Books Later, R.L. Stine Still Gives Readers Goosebumps
Updated: 2012-01-23 09:48:48Back in the early 1990s I worked part-time at a book package called Parachute Press, which was creating a new horror series called Goosebumps. The series' author, R.L. Stine, had begun his career as a humor writer, then found a wider audience with his YA horror series Fear Street. But no one had ever done [...]Jan 22, Old Style Fairytale/Fantasy Illustration
Updated: 2012-01-22 20:51:56 Alan's Visions My style is fairytale/fantasy, old school style. I work in both colour - watercolour and acrylic - and pen and ink, as well as pastelJan 21, So You Want to Be a Wizard - Recite the Oath!
Updated: 2012-01-21 21:35:52Hiding in the library from bullies, Nita Callahan happens on the self-help book, So You Want to Be a Wizard. Taking the Wizard's Oath, she soon finds herself on a list of local wizards.Jan 19, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Meet the Herdmans!
Updated: 2012-01-19 00:46:59A family of bullies in search of booty descends on the town church in Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Check Out the New CBI Clubhouse!
Updated: 2012-01-18 23:25:42Those of you who are Fightin' Bookworms (members of our CBI Clubhouse online community) know that in the two years since we've launched the site, we've amassed a huge amount of information on writing and publishing children's books. So much information, in fact, that it was getting unwieldy. So Jon's spent the last two months [...]Jan 17, The Dogs Don't Bite in Heaven by Tony and Brooklynn Langston
Updated: 2012-01-17 22:56:56This story by Tony and Brooklynn Langston is entitled The Dogs Don't Bite in Heaven. A father's story about what it's like in heavenJan 16, Cautionary Tales for Children: New Visual Spin on a Classic!
Updated: 2012-01-16 18:51:21Edward Gorey gives his visual spin on Hilaire Belloc's century-old Cautionary Tales for Children. Naughty kidsIt’s Your Job to Write to Your Audience
Updated: 2012-01-12 09:06:21Seth Godin, easily the smartest man in publishing today, has once again nailed it with his post Reading Isn't Dead, But It's Changing on his Domino Project blog. His point (and he's talking primarily of young adult books, but this really applies to all ages) is that the job of authors is to write what [...]Jan 11, Just Another Ordinary Day...if your neighbor's a T.Rex!
Updated: 2012-01-11 03:20:11Just Another Ordinary Day might seem a rather boring story...until the pictures tell you who the characters really are!The Appeal of Fantasy’s Secret World
Updated: 2012-01-10 09:56:57When I critique middle grade and young adult fantasy manuscripts, I often find myself jotting notes like "Why is this character the one called to this adventure?" and "What's at stake here of monumental consequence?" A cornerstone of successful fantasy is seemingly ordinary teen and tween protagonists who save the world. Without that, you're just [...]