Ypulse Book Essentials: 'The Graveyard Book,' Blogging The Vote, Best Graphic NonFiction For Teens
Posted by meredith on 11-03-2008
Page to Screen (Neil Gaiman signs on to produce a live-action adaptation of "The Graveyard Book") (MTV Movie Blog)
- Blog the vote! (Across the kid litosphere bloggers speak out about why voting matters. The master list of participants is up on Chasing Ray. Plus Obama and McCain coming to a comic book near you) (via Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast) (Cleveland.com)
- ReaderGirlz (moves from MySpace and welcomes new "diva" blogger Melissa Walker)
- Freddy the Pig goes to Washington (Fifth-graders at Tenacre Country Day School give their fictional picks for who they'd want to see as Prez) (Shelftalker)
- Literary twins (A mother of twins speaks out against literary stereotypes. As the sister of twins, I can also attest to the lack of realism) (The Guardian)
- More Trouble for Google? (Harvard refuses to play ball with Google Books) (Information Week)
- A guide (to the best graphic nonfiction for teens) (SLJ)
- Guys Lit Wire talks to Tracie Vaughn Zimmer (author of Floating Circus, about what it feels like to write from a boy's POV.)
- New study names four types of Harry Potter readers (and they correspond with the different Hogwarts houses?! I don't know if I buy this.) (The Bookseller)
- Fourth Story Media (a new "multi-platform" company telling stories across books, the web, mobile phones and other media)
- World’s first multimedia novel… (published on a T-Shirt) (2d Code)
Categorized under: Book Essentials, Books






November 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Thank you for linking to my GuysLitWire piece, and to the new readergirlz blog! :)