Ypulse Book Essentials: Al Roker Reads, Lois Lowry, 'Bunnytown'
Posted by alli on 03-19-2008
Al Roker's book club (Aimed at 8-12 years olds, the first book is Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett. Nice choice.) (CNNMoney.com)
- Listen to Lowis Lowry here (One of the great great great greats! I love her.) (WKUOW)
- 'Bunnytown' promotes reading (Smart Television Alliance + Disney + The NEA = Read Across America public service announcement)
- Something to cheer about (Cheer! is a new book that takes cheering seriously and presents an honest and detailed account of the often mocked "sport.") (Entertainment Weekly)
- 'We Tell Stories' (Literature, gaming, and the web meet up in this innovative way — facilitated by Penguin) (PSFK)
- 'New chapter or last page' (Inspirational article about the digital world and the life of the book.) (Bookseller.com)
- Two cool trailers from Fuse #8 (…A Harry Potter fan-doc and "The Adoration of Jenna Fox")
- Just another library's testament to 'manga-mania' (Baraboo News Republic)
- Where are all the square pegs? (A fellow blogger wants to know why there aren't more nerdy girls in YA fiction?) (Dollymix.com)
- Ten-Cent Plague (How comic books threatened to destroy America in the 1950's.) (Entertainment Weekly)