Posts Tagged "children’s fiction"

According to this Media Bistro article, Mr. Popper’s Penguins is finally coming to the big screen and Jim Carrey is going to star in it. How cool is that? Still, I’m a little bit confused. Perhaps the movie’s producers missed out on this post from last year. Surely, if they were aware of the fact that my friend and I used to spend hours in her basement emulating penguins, jumping from the ping-pong table to a chair to an improvised penguin slide, they would certainly want to bring me in to help with all those penguin stunts. Hollywood, I know everything there is to know about penguin stunts, well as long as those stunts are being performed by kids with overactive imaginations and not actual penguins. Who am I kidding? It will probably be all CGI...

I just finished Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me, the latest Newbery Medal winner. The book is great. It’s easy to see why this book was selected as the winner. What I did find kind of cool was that the book referenced another Newbery Medal winner. It was more than a reference, in fact. It was pretty much an essential part of the book. Miranda, the main character of When You Reach Me has a favorite book. It is A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle and she reads it over and over and over again. A Wrinkle in Time was one of my favorite books as well, and I definitely read it more than once, but not quite as often as Miranda. I’m not sure how many times I read The Westing Game (another Newbery book) by Ellen Raskin, but it was definitely a...