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MEET ME AT MIDWINTER
Things might be a little quiet over here at the blog this week, because the team is packing up and heading to Dallas, Texas to attend the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting. We love this conference– we catch up with old friends, make new ones, promote our terrific upcoming books, and scope the scene for [...]
BBW Booktalk: GEOGRAPHY CLUB
Banned Books Week goes on and today’s booktalk is GEOGRAPHY CLUB by Brent Hartinger. It was successfully banned for its homosexual content in Brent’s own hometown in 2005 – read Brent’s great post about it – and has continued to appear on the most challenged lists. In Brent’s blog post, he quotes a local parent [...]
BBW Booktalk: ANGUS, THONGS, AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING
A regular on the top banned and challenged books list, ANGUS, THONGS, AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING by the fabulous Louise Rennison has a cult following (um, include me in that cult!). The book has been challenged for a multitude of reasons: age inappropriateness, profanity, and sexual content. It has also made the Top 100 list, which [...]
BBW Booktalk: BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
In addition to appearing on the list regularly, Katherine Paterson’s BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA was a Top 10 Banned Book in 2003. It is also ranked in the Top 10 Banned Books of the decade, 1990-2010. It has been challenged and banned for using the lord’s name in vain, secular humanism, occultism, offensive language, and death [...]
Banned Books Week: Booktalks
It’s well-known in book-ish circles that it’s Banned Books Week. This week is a wonderful celebration of the freedom to read and to raise awareness against censorship. But one thing that comes up each year – by myself, included – is that Banned Books Week needs to happen every day of the year. As book [...]
Blogs We’re Reading
It’s Vacation Time around the office lately, especially now that ALA is over. But one of the delights of being offline is getting to catch up once you’re back online: it’s always fun to see that the electronic world has continued to spin even in your absence. Here are some of the posts I’ve read [...]
More Notes from the Trenches: ALA Annual 2011
This may look like a straightforward display promoting Brian Biggs’ upcoming EVERYTHING GOES: ON LAND… …but Robin and I actually spent some time during booth set-up beep-ing and vroooom-ing around the poster, pretending we were driving the trucks and cars. Because that’s the sort of goofiness that conferences inspire in us. Our breakfast this morning [...]
Notes from the trenches: ALA Annual 2011
We arrived in NOLA yesterday and have already had an amazing time. First, check out this cup I found in a kitschy gift shop yesterday: It says: “Proud to be a public serving, friendly, book stamping, soft spoken, helpful, well-read librarian.” And I couldn’t help but chuckle (and be a little annoyed). As a former [...]
HarperCollins Children’s Books at ALA Annual
We’re in ALA Annual Countdown Mode here in the office – it’s only one week away! Dozens of boxes have been filled with galleys and we can’t wait to share them with you. However, while galleys are certainly a huge incentive to come by Booth #1315 to say hi, we also want to offer up [...]
HarperCollins’ Fall 2011 Librarian Preview
Last week we had our Fall 2011 Librarian Preview where we invited librarians from the tri-state area to the NewsCorp building, plying them with food and books. Our editors got into the act, showing off their biggest and best books for the upcoming season – and this was the first preview where we had editors [...]
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