Yesterday, propinquitine and I went to the [National Book Festival], which was quite awesome.

Naturally I spent the whole time at the Children's and Teen's Pavilions. :) Highlights included the launch of [The Exquisite Corpse Adventure] (an online only serial novel, with each chapter written by a different children's author, and an utterly ridiculous ( Read more... )

Oh, oh! Guess who just got a summons for jury duty! Guess!

You know, I totally said to myself as I was filling out the questionnaire in April or May, "They're going to summon me while I'm abroad, aren't they?" And lo! they did.

And of course it had to come on the Saturday before I leave, so I can't even call the office or anything. *sigh* ( Read more... )

You know your search terms are way too vague when Google suggests an online edition of Finnegans Wake as a first-page result.

(Unless, of course, you were actually looking for Finnegans Wake, in which case-why?)

Can anyone think of YA fairytale novels (traditional or original) that feature multicultural characters? There are plenty of multicultural picture book fairy tales, but I can't say the same for YA fairy tales. The only one I can think of at the moment is Wabi: A Hero's Tale by Joseph Bruchac (and I think a couple of his other books are fairytale- ( Read more... )

The trouble with really good, thinky books is that I usually don't have anyone to discuss them with. I finished reading Terry Pratchett's Nation (sort of for class except we didn't talk about it at all, which is grrr because it was a waste of my nonexistent time, but on the other hand it's a really awesome book and you should totally read it), ( Read more... )

Another library poem for the last day of National Library Week.

( 'Library' by Valerie Worth )

YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS, THERE ARE CROCUSES ( Read more... )

BBC article, pointed out by elspethsheir: [ 'Arctic unicorns' in icy display ]

Narwhals, people! There's a ~2 minute video clip with the article and it is so amazing and beautiful. aksjkfhl.

Dude, I love this sort of footage of how awesome our world is. Planet Earth fills me with all kinds of wonder. But I have a weird particular affinity for the frozen ( Read more... )

Hi. I have no idea how it is already February, let alone the ninth of February. OMG, this semester is craaaaaazy. The biggest chunk of free time I have is approximately 1.5 hours on Monday nights, and not because I actually have the time to spare, per se, but because I can't actually concentrate on much of anything between getting home from a ( Read more... )

I am looking for suggestions of censorship in children's books. Not censorship of children's books, but rather books about censorship - stories in which censorship of some kind plays a significant role. I am hoping to do a paper on the portrayal of censorship in children's books, but all that can be found on Google relates to censorship of ( Read more... )