Have You Heard the One About…?
One of the posts on YALSA-BK contained information about the new, upcoming Jon Scieszka book
Guys Read: Funny Business. Here is a link to a YouTube video promoting the new book, due out September 21! If you can, take a look at it, great fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCd9ln6Y5Cs
Titled: Guys Read: Funny Business – The Joke
It has a number of well-known authors telling a joke. In alphabetical order (not joke telling order) are:
Mac Barnett, Eoin Colfer, Christopher Paul Curtis, Kate DiCamillo (the only female), Paul Feig, Jack Gantos, Jeff Kinney, David Lubar, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka, and David Yoo.
I’m looking forward to reading the book!
I’m in the middle of
Alchemy and Meggy Swann by Karen Cushman. I am a fan of her titles
Catherine, Called Birdy,
The Midwife’s Apprentice and
Matilda Bone and this title is in the same vein. Meggy, unable to walk without her two sticks, has been sent to London to live with her father, an alchemist, and someone she knew nothing about. He was expecting a boy and is quite disappointed with Meggy. London is very different from her former home of village and countryside, but she is trying to fit in and find her place.
(The Nebraska Library Commission receives free copies of children’s and young adult books for review from a number of publishers. After review, the books are distributed free to Nebraska school and public libraries.)
