Monthly Archives: February 2008

Looking to Alaska banned from the classroom?

Children’s literature and education should be challenging at times and engage with issues, even if they are uncomfortable. Scott Westerfeld’s blog has a really disturbing post about the truly insane practice of some parents deciding that something that they have … Continue reading

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Spiderwick Chronicle premiere pictured

Holly Black has a link to pictures from the Spiderwick Chronicles premiere held on a brown carpet. Its a long page with pictures of Hayden Panetierre, Tony Derlizzi and Holly Black, Freddie Highmore, Rachel Fox, Sarah Bolger amongst others.

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BBC 4 explores the Worlds of Fantasy

BBC Four is to begin a series of programmes entitled “The Worlds of Fantasy” starting on March 18th at 9pm. The following programme will be on Mervyn Peake on March 25th. The BBC site doesn’t have much more detail but … Continue reading

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