Seth Lerer’s Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter

Posted on January 26, 2009 by pernodel

Lerer, Seth.  Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter.  Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
This book, it seems, has just been named as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle 2008 awards for criticism.  According to its website, the National Book Critics Circle consists of “more than 900 active [...]

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The Proof That Ghosts Exist? Not!

Posted on January 1, 2009 by pernodel

After the various positive comments for The Proof That Ghosts Exist, the novel by Carol Matas and me, that I recorded earlier (see Responses to the Proof That Ghosts Exist) comes this late bloomer, from School Library Journal:
MATAS, Carol & Perry Nodelman. The Proof That Ghosts Exist. Bk. 1. 216p. (The Ghosthunters Series). Key Porter, [...]

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Lack of Self-Awareness

Posted on July 31, 2008 by pernodel

From an ad for the OneXone foundation in the Globe and Mail, July 31, 2008:
Join Academy® Award-winner Matt Damon, Grammy® Award-winner Wyclef Jean and friends at historic Maple Leaf Gardens®, to honour the message that life belongs to everyone.
The Academy®, The Grammies®, and the Gardens® are apparently, then, not part of life?

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