Two things I do: review children’s books and work in early childhood education. When I wrote my original review for…

Roald Dahl has been dead 20 years and sells more now than in his lifetime. I found this interesting link…

Any story that begins with the decapitation of a garden gnome sends a strong signal that the reader is going…

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6675065.html?industryid=47152In an exclusive interview to Publishers Weekly, we discover the publisher of Liar is going to re-jacket the entire 100,000…

I don’t regularly follow many blogs, but I do receive a weekly e-newsletter about the children’s book publishing industry. I…

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6672790.htmlFor people interested in this sort of thing, there is a controversy brewing over a book cover. In short, the…

Trapped in a masquerade of normalcy, Anke struggles to figure out her role in her dysfunctional family. She lives in…

Writers and editors often talk about the importance of the first sentence and the first page. If a story doesn’t…

Writers and editors often talk about the importance of the first sentence and the first page. If a story doesn’t…

Thirteenth birthdays in the Beaumont family are a big deal, though not for any of the usual reasons. When they…