31 December 2011

The End of Lord Peter Wimsey

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I read the Lord Peter Wimsey novels as a boy, spurred by my mother’s fondness for them and by Ian Carmichael’s portrayal of the character on...
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29 December 2011

Piling on The Seeker

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Salon asked some children’s writers about movie adaptations, and a couple had interesting things to say about an uninteresting film, The Se...
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28 December 2011

Wisest Thing I’ve Read Today

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Here’s a taste of economist and New York Times columnist Tyler Cowen ’s remarks about storytelling at something called TEDxMidAtlantic (ev...
27 December 2011

Oz on the iPad

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One of my gifts this holiday/birthday season was an iPad, and one of my first apps purchased for that iPad was Oz , created by Boluga. The...
26 December 2011

Cry Freedom

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Over at Boston 1775 , I’ve run an interview with Seamus Heffernan , the creator of a new independent comic called Freedom , set in an altern...
25 December 2011

Weekly Robin Holiday Greetings

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This weekly Robin shares a few highlights from the holiday story in Batman , #15, dated February-March 1943 but on sale the previous Decemb...
23 December 2011

Bartimaeus Flattened on the Page

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Andrew Donkin shares credit for the script of the Amulet of Samarkand graphic novel with Jonathan Stroud , just as he shared credit for th...
22 December 2011

“The lessons they want to hand down”

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The Horn Book just sent me editor Roger Sutton’s interview with Daniel Handler on the textual side of Why We Broke Up . I don’t think it’s ...
21 December 2011

Are Today’s Picture Books Too Short?

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Last month, the reviewer, author, and former editor Anita Silvey delivered some sharp talk about picture books in School Library Journal ,...
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20 December 2011

One-Page Wizard of Oz

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This is an unabridged publication of L. Frank Baum ’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz in poster form, available from Spineless Classics in the UK. ...