Category Archives: books for kids
Watch Neil Gaiman read The graveyard book
Feel like reading Neil Gaiman’s wonderful, Newbery Award winning The graveyard book but too lazy to do so for yourself and feel that listening to an audio book doesn’t quite cut the mustard? Perhaps you would rather watch a video of Neil himself reading the books. Well, now you can. Head over to mousecircus, his site for young readers and you’ll find videos of Neil reading The graveyard book, chapter by chapter. While there, you can watch the Coraline movie … Continue reading
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Nitboy coming soon
Tristan Bancks, author of the Mac Slater, Cool hunter books has a new series for kids coming out soon which I have been looking forward to for a while. The two books, called Lift off, and Bug out make up the Nitboy series, and are about a boy with the world’s worst case of nits. there’s even an animated trailer which you can see below.
Book themed cakes
Cake Wrecks blog has posted pictures of some beautiful book related cakes. Very hungry caterpillar, Where the wild things are, Dr Seuss, and others are all deliciously presented. [via abby the librarian]
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Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer, by Laini Taylor
Blackbringer is Laini Taylor‘s debut novel and the first book in the Faeries of Dreamdark series. It is set in a world of faeries and devils and also an ever growing human population. Most faeries live in the secluded city of Dreamdark, hidden from humans and oblivious to the fact that more and more devils are being released back into the world by ignorant humans. The devils were sealed in bottles twenty-five thousand years ago but as humans continue to … Continue reading
Ranger’s apprentice free ebook giveaway
The Ranger’s apprentice series by John Flanagan is one I must confess to having not yet read. However, I know plenty of people who have, and they all speak highly of it. Enough so that I have added it to Jonathan’s-great-big-list-of-books-to-read (TM). Here in Australia, the land of John Flanagan, we are up to book 8, while our friends in the USA are about to see book 6 released. As part of the book 6 launch festivities, Penguin have made … Continue reading
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2008 BookBoy award winners announced
A few days ago I announced the shortlist for the inaugural Gold and Silver BookBoy Awards. After much deliberation, the judge (me) has decided on the four winners. As a reminder, the shortlists were selected from all the books I read this year and awards are given across four categories. Below are the winners with some judges comments. Silver BookBoy Junior (for a junior book published before 2008) The invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick This book is simply an … Continue reading
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