This year, the Caldecott award for the best illustrated childrens book was awarded to Jerry Pinkney for his version of "The Lion and the Mouse." I read this one. It is almost wordless. The art is beautiful ( Read more... )

I'll think I'm doing fine, and then some stupid thing will be said, or I'll see something, and all of the sudden some memory comes back to me, and it makes me just want to cry. Stupid. Why do I always want what I just can't have? Or should I be asking why the hell I can't have what I want? Either way, it's out of my hands. And yes, I'm talking ( Read more... )

I didn't write the story.  But, I sat down and just wrote a 1500 word diary entry.  If I could just get my life to calm down enough, then I could write, right?  It doesn't matter much anyway, the story was really just a fictionalization of how I'm feeling right now anyway.  So, a fictional story, or a diary entry ends up being pretty much the same ( Read more... )

I am feeling better, but I am not yet totally well.  It's frustrating, since I just want to be better, now.  Anyway ( Read more... )

Librarian, generally, are in favor of a thing called intellectual freedom. It means: I won't tell you what to read; please don't tell me what to read. It's a good philosophy, and one that I'm proud to endorse as a future librarian.

So, when I read another story like this, I just have to cringe and shake my head.  Young Adult author Maureen Johnson ( Read more... )

Just found this, thought some people might be interested. It's the VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2006 list. Here. I haven't been over it yet, but looking forward to some new novels to read.

I read a book today. Tonight. I stayed up to 2AM to finish reading it. Didn't take my bath, forgot to eat. I just read. The whole time, my heart seemed to beat too fast in my chest, I could hardly catch my breath ( Read more... )

I borrowed this from John Green's blog. Since pretty much all of my friends are fellow writers and avid readers, I thought it would be fun to share. So, come on people, share your books with the rest of us. :-D ( Read more... )

I had a meeting for the children's literature reading discussion group tonight. We were talking about Lois Lowry. One of the participants was talking about a book by Lowry where the girl has put dog poo into a bag, but she sees someone watching her scooping the poop, and is embarrassed, and gets distracted, and accidentally puts the bag of poo ( Read more... )