February 2012
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Jan Berenstain, co-creator of the Berenstain... →
A Brief History of Children's Picture Books and... →
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Flamingo Rampant! Gender Independent Kids Books |... →
Kids’ ability to see themselves in books available to them is an incredibly valuable thing. Any parent, teacher, librarian, or caregiver will tell you that kids love books that reflect their daily experience. Kids with dogs like it when the kid in the book has a dog; kids with non-nuclear family structures cherish books in which families like theirs are shown.
“Someday, perhaps, the idiocies of equating critical references to epithets with...”
– Can Educators Ever Teach the N-Word? - Wendy Kaminer - The Atlantic
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The HTML5 Gendered Advertising Video Remixer →
This is so much fun. My favorite mashup was the Nerf commercials’ audio with the Mio Pets commercial’s video.
It’s not a new theoretical discovery or anything, but it’s entertaining - and hey, maybe it could lead to some new realizations.
Children’s TV Enjoys a Renaissance | Emily... →
Reading in Color: "Latinos Don't Fall in Love,... →
realkidsgoodbooks:
I’m loving this new blog. (Thanks to nerdy like a rock star for the rec.) Here’s a little bit of why I’m spending my Sunday afternoon munching through post after post from Reading in Color…
“Latinos Don’t Fall in Love, Asians Don’t Tell Jokes” We also don’t have friendship or sibling drama. No instead people of color live intense lives of prejudice, drugs, alcoholism,...
How To Get Kids To Read? Give Them Banned Books.... →
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Women and Children First! Why anyone who cares... →
“The National Book Foundation’s frustrating (and frankly, puzzling) exclusion of...”
– flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment – Flyway Asks: What Makes a Fairy Tale?
Wanted: Virtual Reality Pop-Up Books | Flavorwire... →
Horror for Kids: How Goosebumps outlasted Harry... →
It's Good Enough for Me: The Renaissance in... →
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Newbery Medal, Caldecott Award Winners Announced →
amandaonwriting:
Jack Gantos’ “Dead End in Norvelt” has won the John Newbery Medal for the best children’s book of 2011. Chris Raschka’s “A Ball for Daisy” won the Randolph Caldecott award for best illustrated story.
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Holy Crap Wtf: Publishers destroy Scary Stories to... →
utilicon:
Alvin Schwartz’s collection of haunting tales Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is an important gateway drug into the world of the supernatural. And as terrifying as the stories about brides locked forever in an attic trunk truly are, it’s the artwork by Stephen Gammell that kept you up at night.
Are you shitting me? It’s the wicked illustrations that got my 10yr old apathetic ass...
Paul, "‘A Wrinkle in Time’ and Its Sci-Fi Heroine"... →
cln659:
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” which opened up the world of science fiction to a generation of girls.
Bullying.
my-life-as-haley:
I was at barnes and noble yesterday looking at childrens books. They had so many books about how to stand up to your bully, or how to stand up for your friends to a bully, a bunch of stuff like that, but I saw absolutely no books that teach kids how to not be a bully. Society needs to teach children not just how to stand up for themselves but how they should treat others.
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Watchkimfearick:
Part 2…make sure to watch it right down to the very last second!
Watchcgett:
Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak of “Where the Wild Things Are” fame. One of the more hilarious interviews I’ve ever seen. Click here for part II.
Colbert: “You’ve said that you get annoyed because “Where the Wild Things Are” is all that people want to talk about.”
Sendak: “Yes.”
Colbert: “Let’s talk about “Where the Wild Things Are.”
a little lamb: 2012 Award Winner Book List. →
toseealambatschool:
1. Caldecott Medal Winner: A Ball for Daisy - Chris Raschka
2. Caldecott Medal Honor: Blackout - John Rocco
3. Caldecott Medal Honor: Grandpa Green - Lane Smith
4. Caldecott Medal Honor: Me…Jane - Patrick McDonnell
5. Newberry Medal Winner: Dead End in Norvelt - Jack Gantos
6. Newberry Medal…
