Throughout this month, we're featuring certain Beatles songs that have a certain significance to our Book of the Month, The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg. The Beatles play a significant role in the novel, and were a big influence for Eulberg. Each of the songs we feature will be important to the novel. Today,... Continue Reading →
Acoording to The New York Times, it looks like Lauren Conrad has been knocked off the No. 1 spot in chapter books this week by an "old" standard: The Hunger Games, which has been on the list for a whopping 77 weeks. Not a bad run, with no end in sight. Not suprisingly, Lewis Caroll's... Continue Reading →
You didn't think we could celebrate a whole week of Alice in Wonderland and not have a creative writing prompt to go along with it, did you? Sit down, have yourself a cup of tea, and get scribbling: Write a prose poem... Use a character from - or inspired by - Alice in Wonderland... Include... Continue Reading →
This amazing video was brought to my attention via author Lisa Schroeder on Facebook ... and I simply had to share: Do you have a favorite reading-related video? Share the link with us in the comments!
My coworkers and I have a silly little tradition that's been going on for the better part of a year now ... Theme Day Fridays! Yes, we work at a TV station. But we're also the behind-the-scenes people (so you don't actually see us on TV), and also -- we work a graveyard shift. So... Continue Reading →
My coworkers and I have a silly little tradition that's been going on for the better part of a year now ... Theme Day Fridays! Yes, we work at a TV station. But we're also the behind-the-scenes people (so you don't actually see us on TV), and also -- we work a graveyard shift. So... Continue Reading →
Lots of goodies are hitting the web today for Alice in Wonderland -- now in theaters! Here's a look at some of our favorites: * Reelz Channel has a charming interview with Michael Sheen and Matt Lucas, who talk about their work on the movie * MTV has a great cheat sheet of "everything you... Continue Reading →
Lots of goodies are hitting the web today for Alice in Wonderland -- now in theaters! Here's a look at some of our favorites: * Reelz Channel has a charming interview with Michael Sheen and Matt Lucas, who talk about their work on the movie * MTV has a great cheat sheet of "everything you... Continue Reading →
There is a fun interactive feature on MSNBC today, talking about the "science" of Alice in Wonderland. Here are a few highlights: Mercury made hatters mad Was the Hatter of the Mad Tea Party truly mad? Literary scholars suggest that the character is a nodding reference to the fact that many hatters did indeed go... Continue Reading →
Long before Becky Terhune created the “most adorbs cover and book design” (p. 289) for The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg, there was the album cover for Abbey Road by The Beatles, featuring the Fab Four walking across the actual Abbey Road near their recording studio. (See our cover comparison here.) On first glance... Continue Reading →
Novel Novice 