Here's my Tots to Teens article about what I consider a good range of children's books.
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Here's my Tots to Teens article about what I consider a good range of children's books.
Continue reading "Children's Books - A Collection Worth Shouting About" »
Stumbled upon this excellent blog today: Twinkle, Girl Detective Extraordinaire.
It chronicles the adventures of Twinkle, international girl of mystery ...
It's funny, interesting and if it were a book I'd definitely buy it, so if you need a mood-booster and blues-buster, go check it out.
Poking around the Penguin website, I came across this list of book-related trivia quizzes.
Here are more literature quiz sites:
Go on, now. How much do you really know! :-)
Eyeris, whom we last saw breaking a chair, has discovered that he has a talent for picking-and-flicking. Eyeris is a fledgling super hero who has, if truth be told, yet to do anything terribly heroic or super. In fact, as he is still discovering and developing his powers, he sometimes loses control of them, hence uncontrollable chair-breaking and mad picking-and-flicking. However, the latter activity has proven quite useful.
What exactly does he pick-and-flick? Not, I'm glad to report, anything that resides in his ears or delicate nostrils. Eyeris is a lint picker-and-flicker. Thus his black Tees and jumpers are always lint-free.
For a small fee Eyeris will pick-and-flick lint off your clothes. Just send your black tees, jumpers, pashminas etc to him with a cheque for RM100 per piece of clothing, and a large self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Eyeris is a super hero and he is always glad to be of service.
N.B. Eyeris draws the line at picking-and-flicking belly button lint.
I recently wrote about how I was discovering Japanese fiction. I said I was going to quiz my friend Kazz about Haruki Murakami and I predicted that he would be scornful about that author. Well, I was right!
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
By Mo Willems
Publisher: Walker Books, 32 pages
The pigeon gets a mad gleam in his eye when a bus driver leaves his bus unattended for a while. "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!" is what we're told, but pigeon is determined to get behind the wheel so he begs, cajoles, lies and gets more and more hysterical as it becomes increasingly obvious that he's not gonna be allowed anywhere near the bus. Pigeon's expressions are hilarious - he should get his own TV show and I'd love to see him as a talk show host! The page with pigeon fantasising about being a bus driver is the greatest! Mo Willems is the creator of Sheep in the Big City. Other Pigeon titles are The Pigeon Finds a Hotdog!, and boardbooks The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too!" and The Pigeon Loves Things That Go!
Like Maurice Sendak? I wrote about his books in my Tots to Teens column and I'm pasting the article here.
I will be taking a break until next Wednesday. See you then!
Goodness that Eyeris is one dark horse. Who would have guessed that there's a monster trapped in that lean, spare frame of his ...
It was a quiet afternoon on the Editoral floor when Eyeris suddenly leapt up with a roar and started bashing his chair with his elbows. Why elbows, you ask? Beats me, but look closely and you'll notice he has very sharp ones.
Anyway, after leaving his chair in a heap on the floor, Eyeris proceeded to rip his copy of Harry Potter and the Big Fat Door-Stopper of a Book into tiny little shreds. What strength! What power! What discerning taste!
After this little performance, Eyeris rebuilt his chair with his own, slim, lily-white hands, a half-dozen brass screws and two roles of scotch tape, sat back down and continued like nothing had happened.
Just another exciting day at the Star ...
I get people asking me what's in the black bag I lug around with me.
It's my handy book-bag in which I carry ... books! Including, my Book at Breakfast, books I'm curently reading because I need to review them, books I've just been given or bought, that I'm so thrilled with that I can't let out of my sight, etc, etc.
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