31 May 2011

A Peek at Oz in Peekskill?

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The Wall Street Journal reports on a proposal to erect these statues in Peekskill, New York. Why Peekskill? For a couple of years as a c...
29 May 2011

The Universe Needs a Robin

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The last weekly Robin quoted several reader letters from 1989 because I was struck by how closely those fans’ analyses of the Dynamic Duo’s...
27 May 2011

“Baum brings to his pages a plenitude of intellectual puzzles”

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From Prof. Ellen Handler Spitz’s appreciation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , titled “Yellow Brick Philosophy” , in The New Republic : The ...
26 May 2011

“In the center of the chair was an enormous Head”

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The Lafayette School in Chatham, New Jersey, has mounted a production of The Wizard of Oz with all the characters (even Dorothy) portrayed ...
25 May 2011

Making Lemonade Mouth a Little Sweeter

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I heard an interesting publishing story at last week’s SCBWI New England conference. Mark Peter Hughes originally published Lemonade Mouth...
23 May 2011

“New England Voices” for 2011, Tuesday, 24 May

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Tomorrow, 24 May, the Foundation for Children’s Books will host its annual “New England Voices” event in Walsh Hall at Boston College. This...
22 May 2011

“He needs someone like Dick Grayson”

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The death of the second Jason Todd and retelling of how Dick Grayson became Robin led to a flurry of reader letters in 1989 discussing wha...
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21 May 2011

Reversals and Recognitions

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After I posted my “Plotting Made Simple!” flow chart this week, author Kimberly Marcus emailed me to ask what the different shadings for t...
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20 May 2011

Comic of the Week

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Here are a few panels from Jon White’s comics-form rendering of the Presidential Campaign Press Release of the Month . Click on the image o...
18 May 2011

A Dastardly Plot

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Last weekend I was at the SCWBI New England annual conference, co-directed by my writing-group colleagues Greg Fishbone, Kathryn Hulick, an...
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