Thanks to the lovely jvgymnast I have a great marching penguin icon from the wonderful little video I posted a while back. So cute!

This is the Friday Five, but I was out on Friday, so you get it now because I love this topic.

1. What book or books were special to you in your childhood?
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder of course. I read ( Read more... )

This entry may not be of a lot of interest to my male readers or to those that did not grow up reading Judy Blume's amazing books.

In Judy Blume's book, Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, the title character gets her period for the first time and picks out a pink belt. Well, modern editions (in the last 10 years or so) have changed that to her ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday Ted Geisel!

And what does it say about my life that I remember Dr. Seuss' birthday long before I remember my friends? I suppose it says that I'm a children's librarian and fairly good at my job.

Tomorrow they will issue the first 39 cent stamps (postage went up as of yesterday). They will feature characters from Children's literature including Curious George (from Curious George), a Wild Thing (from Where the Wild Things Are), The Very Hungry Caterpilar (from the Eric Carle book), Wilbur the Pig (from Charlotte's Web), Fox in Socks (from ( Read more... )

I don't usually do much of these petitioning things. Mostly the email ones are frauds. Do you notice that they never ask you to send them to someone who might actually be able to do something? However, this one tugs at my heart strings. Most of you, like me, probably grew up watching the wonderful children's television show Reading Rainbow. ( Read more... )

Goodnight Moon is a classic children's book. Most of you probably know what I'm talking about. For the last fifty years, there has been a picture of the author and he's holding a cigarette. The latest printing of it the cigarette has been digitally removed. It is a change that I find an interesting commentary. Apparently Stalin used to do ( Read more... )

Those of you who do not interact with children on a regular basis may not know about the princess craze. Disney has a princess line in which all their characters (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Belle, all the pretty ones) do things together. There are books, maybe some videos, toys, costumes, millions of things you can buy (this is ( Read more... )

I was doing an unrelated search on Amazon to find a specific book for a patron and this one got pulled up. I don't know why. I think Amazon sometimes is grasping at straws. I know sometimes I am.

Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed!Regardless of politics, it doesn't look that well written. (Of course I really can't judge without reading ( Read more... )

I know not all of you have the good fortune to be children's librarians, but you are probably aware of the rash of celebrities writing children's books. This article contains a interesting look at that, the effect it has on other children's authors, and a call to publishers.

Does 'Lotsa de Casha' for Madonna mean lessa for Other Children's ( Read more... )