Well, I’ve been tagged. This seems like a bit of a complicated meme involving photos and whatever you are passionate for kids to learn about. Unfortunately I am too sleep deprived to come up with inspiring quotes, so I’m posting the most important life lesson I can think of for my children to learn at […]

Check out Word Balloons, a new blog devoted to comic books for kids. It should be excellent, Mangablog’s Brigid Alverson has put together a great group of contributors. I think this blog will really come in handy for librarians who work with children.

I realize that when I switched over to feedburner, the plugin I used to redirect traffic made all the category feeds disappear. I’m going to attempt to restore them, but just in case anything goes wrong, the main feed for this site is:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/tangognat

In order to select a winner of the manga giveaway, I got my husband to pick a number out of a hat. And the winner is…..drumroll…..drumroll….drumroll….Laura (commenter #14)! Send me your address Laura, and I’ll get your package in the mail.
I wanted to do something extra for someone, so Rebecca who had a birthday yesterday […]

The manga giveaway closes at midnight on the 22nd, so if you were still thinking of entering, head on over to this post and leave a comment. I’ll announce the winner on the 23rd.

Here’s the list of winners.
The Professor’s Daughter and Artemis Fowl won the graphic novel category.

Cybils Nominations were posted today!

Teen/Young Adult:
The Arrival written and illustrated by Shaun Tan
Flight Volume Four edited by Kazu Kibuishi
Laika written and illustrated by Nick Abadzis
The Plain Janes written by Cecil Castellucci; illustrated by Jim Rugg
The Professor’s Daughter written by Joann Sfar; illustrated by Emmanuel Guibert
Elementary/Middle Grade:
Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel written by Eoin Colfer and […]

I switched to a different theme for this blog, I think everything is working ok. If you notice anything wonky, let me know!

Cybils nominations close on the 21st, so if there’s something you’ve been wanting to nominate head on over there!

Nominations for the Cybils are now open. Once again, I’m going to be judging the graphic novel category, so head over there and nominate your favorite graphic novel from 2007.