Sunday in L.A. Links

• Rick Riordan on age-appropriateness in children’s books.  He is a wise man.

• Just read and enjoyed Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver.  Want to know what moved it to the top of my TBR pile?  Play-doh.

• Have you been looking for an easy and convenient way to work discussions of Iran into your children’s lit blog?  The Atlantic provides a convenient connection, in awesome cartoon form.

• Fun list of the 10 best bookstores in the world.  I’ve hit up five of these so far – who wants to plan a trip to see the other five? (Hat tip to The Big Bad Book Blog)

• Thank you thank you to the Lipstick Librarian, who points out that Hollywood has defined my profession as “the opposite of a stripper.”

• An example of some really awful library design at Tame the Web.

• There’s going to be a prequel to Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines Quartet.  Frank Cottrell Boyce really liked it.  Color me excited! (Hat tip to Educating Alice)

• There have been some great discussions going on lately about reading as a social activity, starting over at Booklights.  I really loved hearing the stories shared at The Reading Zone on how social reading made a huge difference in her classroom.

• Patrick Ness has shared a new short story that describes Viola’s experiences before The Knife of Never Letting Go begins.  This has got me all excited about The Ask and the Answer!

• I’m very curious to learn more about Mozilla’s anti-cyberbullying browser.  If this is done well, it could be a really useful tool.