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    End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup

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    81 days ago in OMNIVORACIOUS · Authority: 315

    In this week's roundup, we witness inspiration by the likes of Roald Dahl, Bob Dylan, and SuperPaint: The Roald Dahl Funny prize. UK children's laureate Michael Rosen (We're Going on a Bear Hunt) founded the Roald Dahl Funny prize, which rewards "the most hilarious children's authors." You have to love the frank and fairly funny rationale behind it: "I have sat on judging panels before and what happens is that the funny books get squeezed out, because somehow or other they don't tackle big issues in the proper way," [Rosen] explained. "They'll get through to the last four or five books, and then historical fiction, or something about death or slavery or new technology will win out. I think it's a great shame, because actually when I think about the books I remember from childhood they are the funny books." The prize's two shortlists were announced earlier this week: Ages six and under: Stick Man Elephant Wellyphant The Great Paper Caper The Witch's Children Go to School There's an Ouch in My Pouch! Manfred the Baddie Ages seven to fourteen: Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear Paddington Here and Now Stop in the Name of Pants! Cosmic Aliens Don't Eat Dog Food Urgum and the Goo Goo Bah! The judges for the prize promised that "every title on the shortlists was 'properly tears-in-eyes, wheezing, sneezing, snorting funny.'" (Found via Bookninja.) "What Book Got You Hooked?" ShelfTalker reminds us that time is quickly running out to tell people about the book that got you hooked on reading--and vote for which state you'd like to get 50K free books for low-income kids. (Can't we vote for all of them?) Don't miss the books that got celebrities hooked, including short write-ups by everyone from Scarlett Johansson (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Neil Patrick Harris (Bridge to Terabithia) to Stephen Colbert (Swiss Family Robinson). Colbert on the SFR: "It had it all--a shipwreck, a tropical paradise, a treehouse, pirates, home made bombs, a tiger pit, and the enviable freedom of those three Robinson boys who were seemingly on permanent Summer vacation." Dylan's "Forever Young" as picture book. I loved illustrator Paul Roger's work with Wynton Marsalis on Jazz ABZ, so I'm excited to see what he's done with Dylan's legendary song in a new book from Candlewick Press. From his Publishers Weekly interview: “I really love the song, especially the simple acoustic version released on Dylan’s first Bootleg Series CD, and I wanted to keep the illustrations simple and direct and not try to illustrate the lyric literally. I mean, it’s a beautiful song, and there have been some great interpretations of it--Joan Baez does a wonderful version. So I wanted to make it good.” In the era of SuperPaint. 100 Scope Notes uncovered an example of a curious vintage of kids' book the other day: Daniel Pinkwater's Muffin Fiend, from 1986. As he points out, digital illustrations are commonplace now (and often indistinguishable from physical ones), but this was produced in the sadly bygone heyday of bitmap graphics and weird patterned fills. E.g.: Four quick, don't-miss links: a hilarious, almost impossible to believe story about stock photography, the U.S. cover of How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, and Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket on a beach with an accordion the Spike Jonze Where the Wild Things Are movie gets a new old release date (10/16/2009, the same date given before it disappeared earlier this year) the new Notes from the Horn Book e-mail begins with a teacher-parent couple interview full of great book recommendations Big A little a lets us know that it's children's book weekend in the NYT Book Review. --Paul

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    Add comment on 'FriendFeed Highlights | Weekly Roundup: September 6, 2008'

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    89 days ago in Nice Fish Films | Michael Sean Wright · Authority: 13

    Add comment The info is rapidly flowing over at FriendFeed so we've decided to do a weekly highlight of some our 'shares.' We're big fans of the Large Hadron Collider and tend to post a lot of updates on the developments of the LHC. There will always be some who question the risks of peering so deeply inside the unknown, have no fear- Particle Collider Not Threat, Safety Panel Says. Enjoyed this comment from Chris Baskind, "Very well put. Let's smash some particles" Music is a major part of our lives and we are drawn to intelligent discussion on the matter- Music Tastes Link to Personality Another Spin for Vinyl T-Bone Burnett 'Democratizes' High Fidelity Audio? Some Film News- Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Given 2009 Release Date I have complete faith in Spike. His films Adaptation and Being John Malcovich are just fantastic. Imaginative videos like Weezer, Beastie Boys, Björk, etc make my eyes happy. See for yourself. Professor Roger Ebert teaches us "how to read a movie." The Toronto Film Fest screens one of our most anticipated films- Picasso & Braque Go to the Movies Art / Culture- Color + Design Blog: Art Nouveau by COLOURlovers Celebrating Hatch Show Print Kerouac reads from On the Road, David Lynch, Jackson Pollock and more- The 50 Greatest Arts Videos on YouTube Robots / Science - Yes, we love 'em! Robots Detect Behavioral Cues to Follow Humans History Hacker Brings DIY Science From Web to TV Bre Pettis's Blog Nothing wowed us more than this- Mars Rover Opportunity takes self portrait. Keeping feeding your brain. Visit us over at FriendFeed- Nice Fish Films Sep 04 04/09: A Peek Inside the Making of a Wired Magazine Article Category: General Posted by: Director