In March I attended the Missouri SCBWI Agents Day. One of the agents praised Dan Yaccarino’s The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau (Knopf, 2009) and sure enough, this is a fantastic picture book–biography, science, and nature all rolled up with wonderful text and artwork. Check out this trailer.
Archive for March, 2010
Belated President’s Day: George Washington’s Teeth
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” A fire fighter, an Olympic speed skater, a veterinarian, maybe president of the United States? So You Want to be President? written by Judith St. George and illustrated by David Small (Penguin) gives the real scoop about being president. There are good things about being president: a big white mansion, a swimming pool, a bowling alley, and a movie theatre in your house. There are bad things about being...
Companion to Life as We Knew It: the dead & the gone
Susan Beth Pfeffer’s the dead & the gone (Harcourt 2008) is a companion story to her previous YA novel Life as We Knew (Harcourt 2006). The novel takes the same cataclysmic disaster, but this time tells the story from the perspective of Alex Morales, a seventeen-year-old boy living in New York City. When a meteor hits the moon and pushes it closer to the Earth, the change in gravitational pull causes massive worldwide destruction. Tides...
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