OUT & ABOUT: June 3, 2009

Here & There

• 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature Announced
• Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards: Video of 2008 Ceremony
• From Publishers Weekly—BookExpo America 2009: Fall Children’s Highlights (By Diane Roback, with reporting by Joy Bean and John A. Sellers)
• Children’s Bookshelf (Publishers Weekly, May 28, 2009)
• From Kelly Fiineman at Writing and Ruminating—Brush Up Your Shakespeare in June - Introduction
• From Jen Robinson’s Book Page—Children's Literacy Round-Up: June 1
• From MotherReader—The Fourth Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge

Summer Reading for Children & Adults

• From knoxnews.com—A need to read: What parents can do to encourage summer reading
• From the Motherlode blog at The New York Times (June 1, 2009)—A Summer Reading List for Parents (By Lisa Belkin)
• From NPR—Summer Books 2009
• From A Wrung Sponge—Summer Reading links
• From Wild Rose Reader—Summer Reading: Books, Poetry, & Other Resources

One More Thing

• Over at Politcal Verses— The Vietcong Tunnels: A Poem by J. Patrick Lewis