- 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.