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For some reason, most books, music, and movies release on a Tuesday. I have no idea why this is. However, that means that Tuesdays are one of my favorite days on the floor. It’s fun to see what has arrived for the first time. Here are a few things that came down on our cart […]
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Google eBooks for Kids
Phones are very smart these days with all of their apps, and many people have tablets stashed in their bags — whether they are an iPad, Nook or Kindle Fire. And if your kids are anything like mine, then they are probably often trying to get you to let them play with your sophisticated gadget. […]
Tom Angleberger is Coming! Tom Angleberger is Coming!
Come one, come all to BookPeople at 6PM on Wednesday, April 18th in your mustachioed best to greet Tom Angleberger and hear all about his wacky and hilarious new book called Fake Mustache: How Jackie O’Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Guy) Saved the World. Tom, who is best known for his Bluebonnet Award winning […]
Banned Books
Banned Books Month may be in September, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t be mindful of censorship all year long. According to Publisher’s Weekly, the ALA has released it’s Top 10 Challenged books of 2011. They are: ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle (offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age […]
Review: Fake Mustache
Next Wednesday at 6pm, the one, the only, Tom Angleberger will be coming to BookPeople to speak and sign copies of his books. Granted, most of us know him for his Bluebonnet Award winning book, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, but Tom does write books that don’t involve paper-folded characters. In fact, his newest, […]
30 Poets in 30 Days
Author Greg Pincus over at GottaBook has a very cool thing going on to celebrate National Poetry Month: every day this month he has established kid poets publishing new, unpublished poems on his blog. Head on over there to see what some of your favorite poets are writing these days. To see the very first […]
National Poetry Month
Every year April rolls around, and when we’re finished fooling each other on the first, it’s time to start thinking about National Poetry Month. Poetry abounds in our world whether it’s classically rhymed, a sonnet, or something more modern or post-modern in its feel. Today, I wondered into the kids’ department and my fellow staff […]
The Duckling Gets A Cookie, and I Want One Too
On Tuesday, the latest Mo Willems’ pigeon book will hit our shelves. The classic toddler in pigeon form is constantly being told by the reader in his various books, “No,” but in this book, his friend, the duckling, hears “yes”. As you can imagine, this does not go over well with the pigeon. And, of […]
Got to Go Back, Back in Time
I like the idea of time travel. I like the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the Earth. What I would not like is the idea of traveling back in time to visit the dinosaurs. I have to leave that kind of adventure to a braver, more daring sort. Perhaps, like the characters in Greg Leitich Smith’s […]
We’ve Got a Job Has Got an Event
In 1963 three to four thousand children marched in the streets of Birmingham, AL to protest racial segregation. Despite their age, snarling dogs and firehoses were still turned on them, and many were arrested and sent to jail. Considered one of the most effective marches during the Civil Rights Movement, it is now one of […]
Surviving . . . Andrea White
Andrea White is coming. Beware. The former first lady of Houston, and the mastermind behind the Bluebonnet list book Surviving Antarctica will be sharing her latest vision of the future with us on February 28th at 6pm. And it’s not always a happy vision. In Surviving Antarctica, a bunch of fourteen year-olds are sent to […]
