The results are in for the Mallet School Book Review Contest.…
As you can see from this PW article, Simon & Schuster is now Selling e-Chapters of books. As exciting as this advance is it doesn't go nearly far enough, which is why,…
Sure we all sometimes feel like Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman, seen below at right, that we’ve got it all. Then again, given a wider field of vision, perhaps not. Let’s take…
When I look at Ballet I don’t see what those who love Ballet see. Consequently I would never be found in the position of making important decisions affecting the production or direction…
Two questions for readers are posed here, first of all… Happy Hannukah Corduroy, coming this October, and the spring 2010 release of Happy Easter Curious George, got me thinking about the issue…
Objectivity, like high fructose corn syrup and polyester suits, is very much out of fashion. The triumph of relativism is such that objectivity is considered now more an historical curiosity than a…
Anyone wondering how e-books will really bring progress to the act of reading need wonder no further. Just read the quote below from July 7th’s Shelf Awareness. “Amazon.com is applying for several…
Today we’ll be interviewing local author Amy Graham. Amy has written many educational non-fiction titles. Her books include The Seven Wonders of the Natural World and Calvin Coolidge: America’s Hottest President. Okay…
Welcome to The Third Annual Mrs. Perry’s Class Arc Review Project. This is a project in which I bring ARCS (Advance Review Copies also called…
There has been a steady stream lately of authorized sequels to children’s classics. There are two basic rationales for doing this, the medical condition rationale, and the relief of intense pain rationale.…