Welcome to our three-part blog post, celebrating National Children's Book Week.
a. Tonight we're selling books at the Women's Club of Wisconsin, 813 E. Kilbourn Avenue. The program, Wisconsin Women Write for Children features seven wonderful local authors: Carole Barrowman, Ann Bausum, Lois Ehlert, Janet Halfmann, Barbara Joosse,, JoAnn Early Macken, and Lisa Moser.
Starting time is 6:30 and admission is $15 ($5 for students), with registration available at the door.We'll have National Children's Book Week posters for all attendees and a free bag to the first 25 people to spend $15 or more.
b. On Thursday, April 16, 6:30 pm, we're co-hosting Amy Timbelake at the St. Francis Public Library, 4230 S. Nicholson Ave, 53235. She'll be there for her novel One Came Home. Random House originally added a school and public event mini-tour (she's also at Books and Company on Wednesday, at 4:30 pm) due to the strength of his review in Journal Sentinel.
"Timberlake set her story in 1871 in Placid, a fictionalized version of Wisconsin Dells. That year, the largest nesting of passenger pigeons ever recorded took place in the state: It might have taken up as many as 850 square miles in south-central Wisconsin. (Unfortunately, passenger pigeons have been extinct since 1914.)" Read the rest of the story here.
Once again, the first people to buy One Came Home at the library will get a National Children's Book Week book bag.
c. And of course we should highlight a few kids' books! One book on this week's Boswell's Best is The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle (Walden Pond), by Christopher Healy. It's the follow up to Healy's The Hero's Gide to Saving Your Kingdom, and features the Princes Charming--Duncan, Liam, Gustav, and Frederic, stepping out of the shadows of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White, and Briar Rose, to defeat an evil witch bent on destroying all their kingdoms. Susan Carpenter in The Los Angeles Times called this series "one of the more clever, hilariously successful incarnations of the current literary rage to rip apart and rewrite fairy tales."
The new book from Crystal Allen, whose How Lamar's Bad Prank won a Bubba-Sized Trophy received a Florida Sunshine State Award (it was raining the day of the ceremony, rumor has it) is The Laura Line. It's about 13-year-old Laura Dyson, who will do anything to prevent her class from making a field trip to the slave shack on her grandmother's property, but what if "anything" winds up putting the slave shack in jeopardy?
Here's a bit from book blogger Valeria Espinoza. "As soon as I saw this novel, I began reading it, right there in the bookstore. I was quickly fascinated with Laura and her life struggling in middle school. It took me back when I was in middle school simultaneously trying to fit in and be myself, or better yet, trying to figure out who I was. I loved Laura from the get go because we are all her in a fraction of our lives; not accepting who we are, or being afraid of who we want to be. The only obstacle in our lives is ourselves and that is evident in The Laura Line. Getting rid of that obstacle, of our own fears, is the hardest part and seeing this fight within the character herself, made it even more realistic and captivating."
Hey, a bookstore mentioned in a book blogger's review! That warms my heart.
Amie, Stacie, and Jane have all been anxiously awaiting The Mighty Lalouche (Schwartz and Wade) from Matthew Olshan and Sophie Blackall, whose illustrations you probably know from the Ivy and Bean series. It's about a humble postman in Paris, who, sacked from his job at the post office, turns to boxing to support himself and his pet finch, Genevieve. I should note that he doesn't seem cut out for the career, but he turns out to be a worthy opponent.
And finally, another book that made the rounds of booksellers, but hasn't yet made it into the blog is Mo Willems's That is Not a Good Idea (Balzer and Bray) It's also a period place, but takes the format of a silent movie. A hungry fox (his name is Hungry Fox) meets a blushing goose (That's Plump Goose, to you) and asks her to go for a stroll, and then asks her for dinner, as the audience (baby geese, or are they goslings) looks on in horror and tries to warn the participants, "that is not a good idea!"
Want to know more? You can watch this trailer:
The four titles reviewed in part C of this post are all Boswell's Best through at least May 20. Happy National Children's Book Week!
Long Island Compromise, a novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
A Season of Perfect Happiness, a novel by Maribeth Fischer
Western Lane, a novel by Chetna Maroo
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, by Evan Friss
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall, a novel for young readers by Jasmine Warga
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, by Anne Applebaum
Goodnight Tokyo, a novel by Atushiro Yoshida, translated by Haydn Trowell
Memorial Days, a memoir by Geraldine Brooks
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, by Malcolm Gladwell
Hampton Heights, a novel by Dan Kois
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, by Alexandra Lange
A Forty-Year Kiss, a novel by Nickolas Butler
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire, by Ashley Spencer
Fire Exit, a novel by Morgan Talty
Three Days in June, a novel by Anne Tyler
Kairos, a novel by Jenny Erpenbeck
James, a novel by Percival Everett
The Snowbirds, a novel by Christina Clancy
33 Place Brugmann, a novel by Alice Austen
People of Means, a novel by Nancy Johnson
The Sentence, a novel by Louise Erdrich
The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car, by Witold Rybczynski
The Business Trip, a novel by Jessie Garcia
Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy inteh Quest to Cure Alzheimers, by Charles Piller
Austerlitz, a novel by W.G. Sebald
Thank You for Your Servitude, by Mark Leibovich
The Case of the Missing Maid, a mystery by Rob Osler
The Paris Express, a novel by Emma Donoghue
Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More, by James Burrows
Never Thirteen: The Evers V2, a novel for young readers by Stacy McAnuulty
Every Tom, Dick & Harry, a novel by Elinor Lipman
The Wren, The Wren, a novel by Anne Enright
The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld, by Dan Slater
Homicide in the Indian Hills and Murder Under the Mistletoe, by Erica Ruth Neubauer
Tell Me Everything, a novel by Elizabeth Strout
A History of Sound: Stories, by Ben Shattuck
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel by Mark Twain
A Pair of Wings, a novel by Carole Hopson
Hello Beautiful, a novel by Ann Napolitano
The House of Doors, a novel by Tan Twan Eng
Dream State, a novel by Eric Puchner
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts, by Susan Goldin-Meadow
Hot Air, a novel by Marcy Dermansky
The Satisfaction Cafe, a novel by Kathy Wang
60 Songs That Explain the 90s, by Rob Harvilla
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays, by Ira Madison III
The Listeners, a novel by Maggie Stiefvater
Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life , by Shigehiro Oishi
Let's Call Her Barbie, a novel by Renée Rosen
Big Chief, a novel by Jon Hickey
The Berry Pickers, a novel by Amanda Peters
Bug Hollow, a novel by Michelle Huneven
Old School, a novel for young readers by Gordon Korman
Beast of the North Woods, a mystery by Annelise Ryan
So Far Gone, a novel by Jess Walter
The Westing Game, a novel for young readers by Ellen Raskin
The Bee Sting, a novel by Paul Murray
Run for the Hills, a novel by Kevin Wilson
Max in the Land of Lies, a novel for young readers by Adam Gidwitz
Who I Always Was, a memoir by Theresa Okokon
The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling, by Jonathan D Cohen
Shopgirls, a novel by Jessica Anya Blau
Meet Me at the Crossroads, a novel by Megan Giddings
The Secret War of Julia Child, a novel by Diana R Chambers
Martyr!, a novel by Kaveh Akbar
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations, by Sam Kean
The Sequel, a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Husbands, a novel by Holly Gramazio
When You Reach Me, a novel for young readers by Rebecca Stead
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir, by Molly Jong-Fast
Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story, by Rich Cohen
I'll Come to You, a novel by Rebecca Kauffman
What They Always Tell Us, a novel for young readers by Martin Wilson
Destroy This House: A Memoir, by Amanda Uhle
If You Love It, Let It Kill You, a novel by Hannah Pittard
The Vegetarian, a novel by Han Kang
Food Person, a novel by Adam Roberts
I Don't Know How to Tell You This, a novel by Marian Thurm
It's (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia, by Kimberly Potts
Raising Hare, a memoir by Chloe Dalton
King of Ashes, a novel by S.A. Cosby
Hazel Says No, a novel by Jessica Berger Gross
Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession, edited by Sarah Weinman
Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History, by Eli Maor, illustrated by Eugen Jost
Orbital, a novel by Samantha Harvey
When the Cranes Fly South, a novel by Lisa Ridzén, translated by Alice Menzies
Go As a River, a novel by Shelley Read
Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor, by Christine Kuehn
The Phoebe Variations, a novel by Jane Hamilton
Heart the Lover, a novel by by Lily King
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy, by Mary Roach
Buckeye, a novel by Patrick Ryan
Maggie; or A Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar, a novel by Katie Yee
The Wilderness, a novel by Angela Flournoy
The Bullet Swallower, a novel by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Mockingbird Court, a Shady Hollow mystery by Juneau Black
Something in the Water, a novel by Phyllis R Dixon
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck, by Sophie Elmhirst
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