Project Book Babe Auction has begun!

The online auction for Project Book Babe has begun. From the site:

ONLINE AUCTION:

Since there are so many items that have been donated they will be auctioned in groups of about ten at a time, every Monday and Thursday after 6 pm MST. We are using ebay and the active auction items will be listed in the sidebar on this website. Items will be listed for one week! Check back each Monday and Thursday for new items.

Project Book Babe Auction page
Ebay auction page

Have fun!!!

Everything on a Waffle

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath

The books my mom recommends to me are always good ones.

This one was great. It centers around Primrose Squarp -- a young girl who is dogged in her belief that her parents, lost at sea, will be back shortly. But for all intents and purposes, she is an orphan. All kinds of antics ensue around who the State is going to get to be her guardian.

The book is quite tasty. Sprinkled with recipes (the one for tuna casserole was a hit with us!) and with situations wacky enough to be fun and believable enough to keep you hoping for the best, it's no wonder its a Newbery Honor.

Project Book Babe!

Project Book Babe is a charity event for a bookseller who has cancer.

But, more than that, it is a gathering of tons of awesome authors! And a chance to hear them on a panel and win prizes! It will be held in Tempe, AZ on April 4th.

There is an online auction and place to donate as well as an auction and a raffle that will be happening at the event. There are TONS of amazing things you can bid on, and all the money goes to help a bookseller pay her medical bills. (Radiation, anyone? Chemo? Yuk!)

I mean, seriously. This is the most awesome thing happening right now, probably.

And I am going to be there!!! I can hardly contain my excitement. I'm thinking I need, like, an Everead shirt or something to wear. What do you think? I am excited to see Shannon Hale as Mistress of Ceremonies. I mean, this is gonna be good! I'm excited to see Pel & Dano & Kara duke it out over Stephenie's Eclipse Prom Dress. How much do you think that thing is going to sell for? I'm also excited to hang out with my family and show my mom all my baby's new tricks (tooth #3 today!)

The only things I'm not excited about are the flights, the time away from Jacob, and the fact that a lovely bookseller had to get cancer to make this all happen.

Everywhere Babies

Post by Alysa
Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers, illustrated by Marla Frazee

This is my new favorite board book. Let me say, first, that I love Marla Frazee! Her illustrations are just adorable -- and it can be tough to draw those weird little animals known as babies.

Susan Meyers has done a great job with the text, too. Honestly, it makes me happy to be a mom. Like, "It's ok, babyhood and motherhood are happening everywhere! Life is great!"

As an added bonus, the book is laid out so that it has a larger kind of idea-phrase at the top of the page, and the smaller text that follows rhymes. This is genius, because I can read whole thing to Benjamin if he's in the mood, or just the top titles for when he's feeling impatient.

Recommended for moms and babies. . . everywhere! (cheesy grin)

Other work by Marla Frazee:
Clementine's Letter
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever (Caldecott Honor Book)
Walk-On!

Where the Wild Things Are---the movie!

It recently came to my attention that this classic children's book is going to be made into a movie. I am both intrigued and worried. Do we have another Jumanji on our hands? A movie where the directors take only the basic idea of the book and run completely wild with it? Because really, there's not much to the plot of this children's book---even less than Chris van Allsburg's classic. Max gets sent to his room without dinner. He imagines an island inhabited by Wild Things over whom he becomes king. Then he leaves, even though they don't want him to. The end. I'm not seeing what the real driving angst in this film is going to be. Come October of this year, I guess we'll find out! Here's hoping for a good one!

Permanent Rose

The third installment in the series by Hilary McKay about the hilarious Casson family. There is a great part about a chocolate cake/swamp. So that's why you really don't want to miss this one.

It moved the Casson's story right along, and I'm looking forward to Caddy Ever After -- I think it will be more fun and less . . . disturbing (though the Cassons are charming as ever in this one and you get to know blundering David).

Previously:
Saffy's Angel
Indigo's Star

Gaiman interviewed by Colbert

I quite enjoyed this little clip of the most recent Newbery winning author. Here he is interviewed by comedian Stephen Colbert and assures him that after the books opening line (which Colbert recently made fun of), "it gets better." :)

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/221843/march-16-2009/neil-gaiman



Thanks to Leila for posting this.