Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
I like how Dino-Hockey, by Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott, and just reissued in paperback, appeared on a list of Best Hockey Books for Kids last month, as spotted on Chasing Spaghetti.
I like how there’s a blog called HockeyBookReviews.com.
But I love how the hockey-playing dinosaurs are wearing little helmets.
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
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'Cause they have little brains? (That's what we were taught back in the [mumble-mumble] ages when I went to school.)
In that case, according to what was still in books when I went to school, Stegosaurus would need an extra helmet for its hips.
(Since then, if I recall right, books have started to reflect the paleontological consensus that Stegosaurus had some sort of gland in its hindquarters, but not a back-up brain. Still not a cognitive whiz, though.)
Ooh. I missed that piece of teaching. But you know, I have a friend who maintains that there are a whole lot of people whose brains reside in their hindquarters. I can finally suggest a possible lineage. . .
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