'You can cut everything except the feeling.' Nicholas Day is here to discuss the process of writing nonfiction for kids, using the youngest of formats. afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/11/the…

An award winning author has a new book on the horizon and we're getting the info early. It's a deep dive into libraries, Kalamazoo, writing by the seat of your pants, and more. We're revealing the cover of LIBRARY GIRL by Polly Horvath : afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/10/wev…

The Newbery Honor-winning author Alicia D. Williams joins us today to discuss writing in the voices of boys, verse novels and their challenges, and more. afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/09/the…

We are incredibly proud to announce that Sydney Smith has won the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award!! 🌟

This is the the highest international recognition given to an author & an illustrator of children's books.

Announcement from IBBY: ibby.org/fileadmin/user…

Here an official filing under News That Got Lost Thanks to That Darned Eclipse.

Congratulations to you, Sydney! Couldn’t have happened to a sweller feller.

April is National Autism Acceptance Month so on the Fuse8Kate podcast we're examining a book that's been embraced by the autistic kid community as containing an identifiable character. It's Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel : afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/08/fus…

The dog book that none of us knew we needed, has arrived. I had to keep myself from overusing the term 'clever' in today's review. It's Jump For Joy by Astra Books for Young Readers, Karen Ruelle & hadley hooper : afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/06/rev…

chipmunk tries an almond for the first time and has a religious experience

Why Is It Impossible to Create a Good Feature Film From a Picture Book? With all the upcoming picture book-to-screen adaptations, what are you favorites? And what are the absolute worst of the worst? afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/04/why…

From endfixers, incompetent robbers and large flightless birds to Eid, Pride, Swedish trans narratives, there is a whole HOST of books from around the world coming out in the States right now! afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/03/myr…

The upcoming How It All Ends is a middle grade novel about a kid with a nonstop imagination, but where did the book come from? Emma Hunsinger gives us an inside peek via an original comic. afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/02/fin…

My town City of Evanston is asking for resident feedback to help them plan for the next 20 years.

Our library patrons, ladies and gentlemen.

Folks, if we're going to celebrate April Fool's Day properly then we need to honor the merriest illustrator prankster of them all. On the Fuse8Kate podcast we consider KING STORK, hidden copulation and everything: afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/01/fus…

Folks, if we're going to celebrate April Fool's Day properly then we need to honor the merriest illustrator prankster of them all. On the Fuse8Kate podcast we consider KING STORK, hidden copulation and everything: afuse8production.slj.com/2024/04/01/fus…

Folks, I love my book LONG ROAD TO THE CIRCUS very much, but it's one thing to have folks like your book too and a very different thing for an ENTIRE TOWN to base a three-day festival on it. Oh. My. God.

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This is the Rongorongo script of Easter Island. Rongorongo lacks an accepted decipherment but is generally presumed to encode an earlier stage of Rapa Nui, the contemporary Polynesian language of the island. It is possible that it represents an independent invention of writing.…

April Fool's Day is approaching, and I am a stickler about NICE PRANKS. I don't even go for mild disappointment. Ie. the payoff has to be BETTER than what is promised. For example: (con't)

Is there a response song from Jolene where she’s like, whoa, calm down, I just had a brief conversation with your man at the bar, this is all in your head, happy to supply some skincare tips and a discount on Manic Panic