Jon’s Twitter Updates for 2010-08-31
Updated: 2010-09-01 04:59:59
Meet a wonderful wordsmith, singer & songwriter: Frank Turner http://amplify.com/u/9goz #
The Joys of (Slightly) Subversive Children’s Books #kidlit #kidslit #childrensbooks http://bit.ly/bXgnDR #
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Ever since Max went on a wild rumpus in 1963 in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, picture books have quietly ventured away from stories of sweet, happy, safe childhoods into more subversive territory. Sure, plenty of gentle, value inspired books still line the shelves (and some of them are quite good), but tucked [...]
When one of your best friends AND one of the funniest people you know comes out with a hilarious middle grade novel, you just have to tell people!
Read the reviews, then buy the book for your middle grader!