Monthly Archives: September 2008

Soul Enchilada Jacket Art

They say that every book has a story. If that is so, then the story behind the mak­ing of Soul Enchi­lada will start and end with the design–and the evo­lu­tion of the design–of the cover.

The ARC du Tri-humph

I knew it was bound to hap­pen. A Google alert let clued me into an Ebay mer­chant sell­ing a copy of an ARC of Soul Enchi­lada. ARCs are pro­vided free by pub­lish­ers as review copies…

A Win in the (Green)willows

Da-ta-Da! Da-ta-Da! Da-ta-Da! I’m proud to share the news that Jody Feld­man and fel­low Green­wil­low author’s The Gol­ly­whop­per Games was named honor book for the 2008 Mid­west Book­sellers Asso­ci­a­tion Choice Awards for Children’s Lit­er­a­ture. Con­grats to Jody for receiv­ing recog­ni­tion for this ter­rific book. She’ll be accept­ing the award and say­ing a few words Thurs­day

First Amendment Friday

It’s my 1st First Amend­ment Fri­day, a day to cel­e­brate intel­lec­tual free­dom, the most impor­tant Amend­ment to the Con­sti­tu­tion, and teens’ right to read. What bet­ter way to kick it off than by shar­ing this mes­sage from our firends at Ran­dom House: Banned Books Week is Sep­tem­ber 27 through Octo­ber 4 It’s time to cel­e­brate the free­dom