May the Force be with you (and your reading!)
[cue 20th Century Fox intro] [cue Star Wars theme song] Tomorrow, Saturday October 6, 2012 is the first National Star Wars Reads Day, designed to “celebrate reading and Star Wars.” While this may be an...
View ArticleThe Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore app review
“Everyone’s story matters,” according to Morris Lessmore, a lifelong lover of books and the title character of William Joyce’s The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. That’s certainly a...
View ArticleThe whole song and…book?
I’m going to come straight out and admit it — I’m kind of a choir nerd. Or at least, I was in high school. So when I pulled Sleep (Acroterion, August 2013) by Charles Anthony Silvestri from a box this...
View ArticleReview of Macbeth
Macbeth by William Shakespeare; adapted and illustrated by Gareth Hinds Middle School, High School Candlewick 146 pp. 2/15 978-0-7636-6943-0 $21.99 Paper ed. 978-0-7636-7802-9 $12.99 Whereas...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Good Nonfiction Adaptation?
In 1998, news anchor Peter Jennings and producer Todd Brewster created The Century, a hefty pictorial history covering pivotal events from the twentieth century related by those who had witnessed them....
View ArticleTales as old as time
It should hardly come as a surprise to anyone that when it comes to the Disney princesses, I find myself identifying most with Belle, the brunette bookworm from Beauty and the Beast. The notion of a...
View ArticleSay Hello to Your Friends*…in full color
In the heyday of Livejournal, several friends and I joined one of its fan communities: babysittersclub. For a while, it was quite an active community (and it still sees some activity). Its members,...
View ArticleHansel and Gretel app review
If you’re in the mood to be a little bit scared, a little bit charmed, and maybe a little bit hungry for sugary houses, the Hansel and Gretel app by Fusee (2015; iOS only) might just be for you. On...
View ArticleMockingJo
[In anticipation of The CW’s forthcoming “gritty” adaptation of Little Women] My name is Jo March. My home is Concord, Massachusetts. I live with my mother and three sisters while my father fights in...
View ArticleA is for Avonlea: Anne of Green Gables board books
When books “Inspired by Anne of Green Gables” enter the office, I take notice (as I’m often inspired by AoGG myself). So when two Anne-based board books, Anne’s Colors and Anne’s Numbers by Kelly Hill...
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