Check out BitterAndrew’s new blog, pronounced WOO-BIN for all your current and future Massachusetts accent needs.

I’m on Twitter now! I’m expecting to be posting many mini-updates about the agony of dealing with two simultaneously teething babies.

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 [...]

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: [...]

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!