Genre of the Month Interview
A while ago I was interviewed by Carol(ina) from Genre of the Month. I had fun with the interview and asked her if I could reprint it here. Chris Rettstatt is the author of the sci-fi & futuristic...
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The Sky Village Nominated for Cybils 2008
2008 Nominations Fantasy and Science Fiction (Middle Grade) 39 Clues written by Rick Riordan Scholastic Airman written by Eoin Colfer Hyperion Best Friend for Claudia written by Beatrice Weinberg Katz...
View ArticleThe Sky Village: Best Christmas Gift Books 2008 (Time Out London)
The Sky Village was just listed in Time Out London as one of the best Christmas Gift Books for 2008. Kaimira: Book One, the Sky Village Monk and Nigel Ashland, with illustrations by Jeff Nentrup...
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Twins Post
The twins are now two years old and change. They’ve learned that words are power, and they are acquiring power at an exponential rate, in English and Chinese. Once they acquire a new system for...
View ArticleDigital Children’s Books with ScrollMotion’s IcebergKids
NYC-based ScrollMotion has been getting a lot of press, especially with the launch of the first Sesame Street Book app for the iPhone (hi Sara). I love these features in particular: Kids can hear Chris...
View ArticleKatherine Paterson on Books and Technology
Katherine Paterson, whom I had the great pleasure of meeting at the recent IBBY conference, has contributed eloquently to the ongoing discussion of the threat technology poses to children’s books. My...
View ArticleA Rickroll In Time: Social Media Updates of Popular Children’s Books
Adults don’t want to see their beloved children’s classics messed with. But when they do decide to mess with them, they do so with abandon. I consider this all to be satire, or at the very least irony,...
View ArticlePenguin iPad Books for Kids
From Penguin’s CEO, John Makinson: We will be embedding audio, video, and gaming into everything we do. The .epub format, which is the standard for ebooks at the present, is designed to support...
View ArticleYA Crossover Books
It’s not news to anyone that adults are reading books marketed to young adults. Harry Potter and Twilight may have made this phenomenon more socially acceptable, but they hardly started it. Think...
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Interview with author-illustrator Jon Klassen
Today I’m participating in a blog tour with author-illustrator (or is it illustrator-author?) Jon Klassen. I personally loved his picture book Where Is My Hat, and my 4-year-old twin daughters loved...
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Edgar & Ellen Hit the Stage
A Google Alert informed me today that another piece of the transmedia property Edgar & Ellen, which I worked on a few years ago, has shown up at a community theatre in Aberdeen, South Dakota....
View ArticleTop 3 Ways Transmedia Bolsters Learning
In transmedia storytelling, elements of a story are dispersed strategically across multiple entertainment platforms (television, books, comics, games, etc.) in order to create a unified and coordinated...
View ArticleKids and Digital Reading: Report from PlayCollective and Digital Book World
1) 35% of parents reported greater willingness to buy an e-book if it has enhanced features (30% increase from 2014). 2) In 2014, parents of kids 2-5 expected to pay $9.35 for a children’s ebook,...
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