From: Sarah Nelsen <snelsen>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:30:57 -0700

Here are the (children's lit related) blogs that I subscribe to, in no particular order:

# A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy (14) (0)
# Worth the Trip (0) (0)
# A Fuse #8 Production (1) (0)
# A Year of Reading
# Shen's Blog
# American Indians in Children's Literature
# The PlanetEsme Plan: The Best New Children's Books from Esme's S
# Welcome to my Tweendom
# Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
# Read Roger
# I.N.K.
# wide-mouthed blog
# 2009 Debutantes
# Black Threads in Kid's LIt
# mitali's fire escape
#Wake County Public Libraries
# ACPL Mock Newbery
# ACPL Mock Sibert
# ACPL Mock Geisel

Of these, Fuse #8 is the only one I read daily. I enjoy Read Roger, it's always brief and entertaining, and Debbie Reese's American Indians in Children's Literature constantly challenges me to look at literature in a different way. INK is great for nonfiction. The mock awards are fun to browse and the Wake County Public Libraries blog is a mock Newbery site where the kids leave their thoughts in the comments, and I enjoy hearing what kids think of the books. Where do I get the time? I purchase children's books for my library system and I consider it a priority to keep up with the blogs just like it is a priority to read the review journals and keep tabs on the listservs. And it's fun, so if I browse the blogs on my lunch break I don't feel cheated out of lunch!

***** Sarah Nelsen snelsen at fvrl.org Collection Development Librarian Fort Vancouver Regional Library
***** Sarah Nelsen snelsen at fvrl.org Collection Development Librarian Fort Vancouver Regional Library


---------- Original Message ----------- From: Steven Engelfried <sengelfried at yahoo.com> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Books and blogs

> I try to keep up with NonFiction Matters (Marc Aronson), Read Roger
> (Sutton), Fuse #8 (Elizabeth Bird), INK ("Interesting Non-Fiction
> for Kids"), and Editorials Annonymous. I admit to skimming,
> and check them sporadically, but I feel that I get a lot from
> these blogs that I don't get elsewhere, or at least not so easily.
> A few recent examples I've enjoyed: 1) Elizabeth Partridge sharing
> the evolution of her work-in-progress on NonFiction Matters is
> fascinating...what a treat to get her first-hand perspective on so
> many interrelated elements that go into the creation of a
> single book. 2) The sense of fun and irreverence (but combined with
> critical analysis) that you don't get so often in other children's
> literature settings, like Fuse #8's Newbery and Caldecott
> Predictions (her own picks as well as many others in the comments)
> . 3) Celebrate America recommendations from a host of non-fiction
> authors on INK that range from Henry Hikes to Fitchburg to America
> by John Stewart. 4) The thread about rhyming picturebook in
> Editorials Annonymous...it's a topic I've read about before, but not
> from the point of view of an editor wading through submissions. I
> know there are many more out there, but I've got a better chance of
> feeling halfway caught up if I just have a handful of blogs to check
> when I can... - Steven Engelfried, Multnomah County Library
> (OR) 503-844-5711 sengelfried at yahoo.com
>
> --- On Mon, 7/7/08, April Henry <aprilhenrymysteries at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: April Henry <aprilhenrymysteries at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Boooks and blogs
> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 10:50 AM
>
> Siobhan Vivian is actually at:
> siobhan-says-so.livejournal.com
>
> Many YA authors are on LiveJournal, including David
> Lubar, Mary Pearson, Marlene Perez, DL Garfinkle, Lisa
> Yee, Liz Gallagher, Sarah Dessen, Sarah Prineas, Eric
> Luper, Tanya Lee Stone - and many, many more.
>
> Including me! aprilhenry.livejournal.com
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