Just in — our favorite Monster is on the Nebraska Golden Sow
er Primary Award list for 2011-12. This means that students in participating schools and libraries in Nebraska will be reading and voting on I Need My Monster beginning next September. The Nebraska Golden Sower Award is sponsored by the Nebraska Library Association.
If you have children or students who live in Nebraska, find out how they can vote in the Nebraska Golden Sower Award here.
Flash
light editor, Shari Dash Greenspan, was quoted in an article on the advantages of small publishing houses in the August issue of Children’s Writer, a monthly newsletter from the Institute of Children’s Literature.
“Because we’re small we give a tremendous amount of attention to each story we acquire,” Shari is quoted as saying.
But then, if you’ve seen our books, you already know that.
An antique shop is the perfect setting for a story about a gir
l and her grandfather, and Antique Week is a perfect place for a review of that story.
Grandpa for Sale is a front page feature article in this week’s edition of Antique Week, the top national newspaper of all things antique. The article includes excerpts from the book, interviews with the authors, and other rave reviews our book has gotten.
For a link to the online copy of the feature, click here.
Flashlight’s Grandpa for Sale is featured as Childhoodreading.c
om’s “Pick of the Week.” Childhoodreading.com focuses on classic stories for kids with classic illustrations, along with recommendations for modern books with timeless themes.
Check out the full review here.
Thad Krasnesky, author of That Cat Can’t Stay, visited the West Point (NY) Elementary School during April, National Poetry Month. Here’s Thad working with students on their rhymes.
I Always, ALWAYS Get My Way was positively reviewed in The Horn Book Guide 2010. “*Bouncy rhymed text and humorous pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations* follow little Emmy’s path of destruction. Mom, a first-class dupe, always comes to her rescue (“She told him to be nice to me./After all… I’m only three”), but the mishaps pile up. Though the story’s hilarity can be forced, older siblings will be satisfied by the tale’s ending.”
Bookfoolery and Babble reviewed That Cat Can’t Stay. Catch their review here.
Kristen Schott, the children’s book editor and blogger of OC Family, is not a cat-lover… but she loved That Cat Can’t Stay. Enjoy her report here.
That Cat Can’t Stay was very positively reviewed in Children’s Literature. Reviewers Ken and Sylvia Marantz (authors of The Art of Children’s Picture Books) cited Thad Krasnesky’s “clever rhymed couplets” and David Parkins’s “lively vignettes,” and emphasized that “You do not have to love cats to enjoy this romp.” Read their full review here.
Thad Krasnesky, author of That Cat Can’t Stay, will be launching his new book at Borders in the Atlas Park Shopping Center in Queens, NY, Saturday, April 3, at 2 pm. There will be cookies for all, and puppies and kittens for those who wish to adopt. Bobbi and the Strays, in conjunction with North Shore Animal League, will attend the launch with a pet adoption van.
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