For Those About to Mock

Piturniq, an Inuk youth, has begun making a name for himself in his village. He is a talented hunter, and Tagaaq, an elder, is training hi...

It's with a heavy heart -- but also with a lot of gratitude -- that I announce that Rachael Stein, who co-founded this blog with me ba...

Librarians from the Eastern Shore of Maryland (and some from the other side of the bay too) met to discuss six candidates for our Mock Calde...

My daughter and I finally got our hands on the audiobook version of The Penderwicks in Spring, so my favorite Massachusetts family has been ...

Note: I wrote this entire post after having listened to the audiobook of Seeing Red. I did not realize  (until I double checked the publicat...

When Rachael attended the Invitational Morris Seminar in 2012, just after we started this blog, she mentioned in her post about it that t...

Hear ye! Hear ye! On the morrow next, we shall be announcing the final reading list for the Maryland Mock Newbery! Huzzah! In the meantime...

The National Book Awards have published a longlist for the first time, and here are the Young People's Literature contenders. A coupl...

So Rachael and I were talking the other day, and our conversation turned to when in a Newbery-winning author's career the award comes. O...

I don't imagine that we have a whole lot of readers who don't also enjoy reading the undisputed champion of the Newbery blog world, ...

Good morning, blogland. How are ya? Two things: 1. There seems to be some glitch in my home computer that renders it resistant to postin...

Psst. I'm on the ballot for the 2015 Newbery committee, and I sure would appreciate your vote! (Don't you want to see Sam try to r...

A Friday digression for you all, as I sit here with my coffee and prepare to do my taxes. I've been reading Ginger Pye to Ella at nigh...

World Read Aloud Day Blogging Challenge! What do you think is special about reading aloud? You know how, in fantasy novels that invol...

Well, there it is: our great big shelf full of 2013 ARCs*. Look at all the majesty! It seems like just yesterday that it was home to T...

...but not for me. While you lucky ducklings are enjoying the grayer pastures of Seattle, I'll be at home this weekend, trying to ca...

So Cen Campbell of Little eLit and I were playing on Facebook  professionally networking, and the subject of BWI's recent demise came u...

Meanwhile, on Google chat...  Sam:  Man, I hope Wonder doesn't win. Me:  I think it probably won't , but I would actually ra...

We'd discussed it for a while before that, but it was last January when Rachael and I decided to stop talking about it, and go ahead and...

We interrupt this blog to report the publication of a new Cat Valente book, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There. ...