Quote of the Week
Don’t even think about publishing until you’ve actually started writing, and don’t even think about writing until you’ve done a whole lot of reading. And not of websites or how-to guides; that’s just dilly-dallying. Read children’s books. Lots of children’s books. Although my grumpiness is resurfacing to tell you that if you haven’t already read lots of children’s books, for love, I’m probably not going to be interested in what you think you have to contribute. Harshing your buzz? Deal with it and dig out your library card.
— by Roger Sutton,
Editorial of the September/October 2015 Issue of The Horn Book
Books & Book Lists
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead, reviewed by Elizabeth Bird– from School Library Journal
The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith, reviewed by Jason Reynolds — from The New York Times
George by Alex Gino, author interview by Kiera Parrott — from School Library Journal
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Recent and New Releases by Alyson Beecher — from Kid Lit Frenzy
3 Filipino Folk Tales That Would Make Great YA Novels by Angel Cruz — from Book Riot
Happenings and Musings
Read Before You Write by Roger Sutton — from The Horn Book
Diversity Survey Deadline Nears by By Jim Milliot — from Publishers Weekly
The Opposite of Colorblind: Why It’s Essential to Talk to Children About Race by Hannah Ehrlich — from Lee & Low Books
Ratcheting Up the Rhetoric by Charles Blow — from The New York Times
Literary and Entertaining
The Bay of the Dead, a Facebook Photo Story by M.T. Anderson — from Facebook
17 Things We Wish Had Happened in Harry Potter by Gwen Glazer — from The New York Times
Where the Magic Happens: Children’s Illustrators Open Up Their Studios – in pictures by Jake Green — from The Guardian
