Nine Not-to-Miss Novels

Com­ing up with the title for this blog was a breeze. As a poet, I’m par­tial to allit­er­a­tion. How­ev­er, I fell in love with a good deal more than nine books this sum­mer, so I’ve decid­ed to list all of my faves and let some­one else wor­ry about the final tal­ly. First, a cou­ple of caveats: […]

Celebrity Children’s Authors and the Publishers Who Love Them, Part 2

I must con­fess, I’m par­tic­u­lar­ly annoyed by African Amer­i­can celebri­ties who jump into the children’s book fray because “there are no books for our chil­dren,” to which I respond, Huh? Spike Lee made such a claim in a year when I, alone, had five books pub­lished. So, I take it he is not only unaware […]