>Phone Call to the Past
>Pursuant to my recent post about sequels, I see from A Chair, A Fireplace and a Tea Cozy that not only are Ellen Emerson White’s old books about The President’s Daughter being republished, she’s...
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>Oh, Santa, Please, Please, Please!
> I told you Martha and I were writing a book, but apparently somebody, um, beat us to it. More than a century ago. The post >Oh, Santa, Please, Please, Please! appeared first on The Horn Book.
View Article>This made me go all teary
>Watch the clip. The post >This made me go all teary appeared first on The Horn Book.
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>Practicing for grandchildren
> Mads seemed content and Julia politely waiting until we got to something with princesses in it. The post >Practicing for grandchildren appeared first on The Horn Book.
View Article>I don’t need a story tonight, but thanks.
>The New York Times has picked up on the story about British mums and dads disdaining fairytales. The Times reporter adds a concern of her own: “My own question about these tales — Brother Grimm,...
View Article>One scary mutha
>I can’t remember how to link from within comments but yesterday’s post about over-controlling caregivers reminded me of Lucy Lane Clifford’s 1882 “The New Mother,” which I instruct you to read...
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>I hope the book is as good as its cover
> Coming this October from Akashic Books. The post >I hope the book is as good as its cover appeared first on The Horn Book.
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Seriously, what the fuck is the point?
Akashic Books is releasing a “children’s version” of Go the Fuck to Sleep. So now parents can harangue their children to sleep for realz. The post Seriously, what the fuck is the point? appeared...
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Mr. Sandman: Fear of the Dark app review
Mr. Sandman: Fear of the Dark (August 2012), the debut storybook app from French developer Hocusbookus, is one of the most arresting examples of digital application technology I have ever seen. The...
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Go to bed
(Said in that same voice that closes Mindy Kalin’s TV show.) Wherein I opine about bedtime books for little kids. My own bedtime currently has me alternating between Thomas Keneally’s The Daughters of...
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The board Book of Sleep
Knopf recently released a board book version of Il Sung Na‘s The Book of Sleep. In the original edition, a playful and spare text accompanies sweet illustrations that, upon closer look, contain a...
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Three threes and an overworked hen
We (and Fuse #8) have been complaining about the current dearth of new picture book editions of folktales. I mean, wouldn’t you love to see Mo Willems take on “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”? Bryan...
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To sleep, perchance to dream
A lyrical bedtime reverie; an open-only-at-night library run by a little librarian; a toddler’s pre-dawn escapades; and a kooky bedtime cruise: four new picture books help smooth the way from daytime...
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Nighty Night! app review
As Fox and Sheep‘s bedtime app Nighty Night! (2012) opens, the screen pans across a view of a little town. One by one the lights in houses’ windows go out, but the farmhouse’s lights still blaze. Tap...
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Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site app review
Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld’s best-selling picture book Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site (Chronicle, 2011) — about some hardworking, tuckered-out trucks callin’ it a night — is...
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Go the BEEP to sleep!
TREND DETECTED! Insomniac robots are rolling off the assembly line. Here they are blinking their way through bedtime in Todd Tarpley’s Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep! (Little, Brown, September 2015),...
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Steam Train, Dream Train app review
Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld, of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site fame, chug along with the digital book app edition of their goodnight-train picture book Steam Train, Dream Train...
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Wake me up when it’s all over
I confess to feeling nonplussed when the publicist wrote to see if “Horn [ed note: AARGH] will review The Rabbit Who Wants to Go to Sleep,” the self-published bestseller that Random House picked up for...
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Sleepy Mole’s Moving Day app review
Sleepy Mole and his teddy bear need a new place to rest because construction workers have intruded upon their burrow, making it too bright and too noisy to sleep. And so begins the...
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Goodnight Safari app review
In Goodnight Safari (2012), a cozy bedtime storybook app from Polk Street Press, users propel the narrative forward by helping wildlife from the African savanna prepare for lights out. Once basic...
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