Holly Cupala and Jolie Stekly are putting a group together to whip revisions into shape- with licorice whips, of course. Do I need this? You betcha I do. Do you?
So I blogged about seeing a possum (blech.) in the yard a few months ago. If my blog hits are any indication- possums are hot. No single post or word (with some bizarre variations like “possum ghost,” “”possum love,” and “possum recipe”) has drawn the amount of blog hits that the possum post did, thanks to Google searches. So…I don’t know. I’m not a fan, but maybe there’s a need out there for more possum? Are possums the new vampires? Picture book writers and editors, take note.
Do you know a 2010 high school graduate-to-be? Perhaps they’d like to pen a little essay for Dr. Seuss’s Oh the Places You’ll Go College Scholarship Program.
I am bad at grammar. Bad, bad, bad. I think something like this might help.
Last thing- I have a question for you, internet.
My six year old boy loves to read. He’s zipping through Sara Pennypacker’s Clementine books right now, and Saturday morning he whipped through a couple of chapter books before we even woke up. He likes light stuff (easy on the dead parents, snarkiness, and scary monsters), but he tends to shy away from series. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I am going to daydream that I’m on my way to BEA now.
If I was there, I’d be looking for an ARC of When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead because it sounds fantastic- and it’s not out until July. sigh.
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May 28, 2009 at 8:58 am
Jet
Have you gone through the Edward Eager books? Half Magic was one of our favourites, and there are quite a few others. Or the Moomintroll books? (They are a little denser – he might not want to read them on his own.)
My daughter’s defense against no-books-left-to-read was to read them again and again. She would get more and different things out of them with subsequent readings. Plus, it seems to have stimulated her recall skills – a handy thing now that she is in AP Biology. Cheers.
May 28, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Annie G
Hmm. Everything I remember my son reading when he was that age was a series- Encyclopedia Brown, The Boxcar Children, and Captain Underpants.
Good Luck in the search!
May 29, 2009 at 9:35 am
CocoaStomp
It is a series, but I loved the Great Brain, and since Jack is one, well…
May 30, 2009 at 7:05 am
Allison
Books my boys have enjoyed as of late (in no particular order): A Cricket in Times Square, The Penderwicks, Masterpiece, The Saturdays, The Four Story Mistake. Also, they really liked Little House in the Big Woods – although Pa carries a gun and shoots animals. The gun is described in excruciating detail. I’m sure as I a child I skipped over that part, but my boys were really interested in that particular passage. Sigh. Jack might like some of Dick King-Smith’s books (Babe, etc). What about picture book biographies? They usually have more heft than fictional picture books and some of them are really interesting. Farmer George Plants a Nation and the one about Obama by Jonah Winters are two that come to mind.
Happy Summer Reading!
May 31, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Kjersten
My current WIP has a Opossum as the main character. Maybe I’m on to something.
June 2, 2009 at 8:24 am
Kim
Thank you for the recommendations, everybody!
KJ- It’s gonna be HUGE.