Quick links from around the kid-lit blogosphere:
“Andy Warhol, Children’s Illustrator.” Educating Alice makes quite the auction find, some Andy Warhol children’s book illustrations(!):
Neil Gaiman interview. The author of Odd and the Frost Giants talks to School Library Journal. This being Gaiman, it’s great. (E.g.: “If you write well for kids, you may be changing lives, in a way you probably aren’t for adults. For adults you’re giving them a wonderful vacation, maybe educating them. But for children you’re giving them part of what made them.”)
Who are current kids’ movies really meant for? “Will ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ be too scary for youngsters? Too confusing? Maybe, for some.” A.O. Scott muses on the recent crop of children’s movies–mostly kid-lit inspired, including Where the Wild Things Are and Coraline.
Septimus Heap reviews. Jen Robinson just wrote up the two most recent books in the Septimus Heap series: Queste and Syren. (”The Septimus Heap books are a solid middle grade fantasy series, well-suited to kids who like the early Harry Potter books or Sarah Prineas’ Magic Thief series…. Sage has a knack for capturing bad guys and characters of decidedly mixed motives.”)
New Notes from the Horn Book. The November installment of the Horn Book’s monthly newsletter is out. Highlights include a Q&A with Jim Murphy and four novels about war.
“Little Critter Comes to the iPhone.” An iPhone adaptation of a Mac game adaptation of Mercer Mayer’s Just Me and My Dad is coming to a phone near you….
Little Books boxed set. Twenty by Jenny reviews a great new boxed set of some classic board books. (”Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jen Corace’s books are spot-on because they begin with the everyday routines that even youngest readers can recognize, and upend the logic. Little Pea hates sweets, Little Hoot loves bedtime, and Little Oink keeps his room spotless. It’s the adults who break the rules.”)
Heads up: more Snicket, incoming. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers just announced a five-book deal with Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, with the first Snicket book due out in 2012.
