New this week: Make a Wish Little Fish (a gentle wind-down for little ones), The Little Mermaid (Disney’s animated classic), Cars (new animated feature), Love Comes Softly (based on the book by Janet Oke), A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman
children’s author interview
M.T. Anderson, author of the National Book Award-winning children’s book The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party, is interviewed at the Book Standard. He has some good remarks about children’s literature in
Ladybug voting
The primary students at Madison Elementary School are voting this week for their favorite book for this year’s Ladybug Picture Book Award sponsored by the New Hampshire Center for the Book. Here are the nominees. The winning title will be