I am excited for the giveaway later, and Elwyn has been practicing nervously. I think he’s going to do just great.\u00a0In the meantime, I am watching the Vikings play the Giants (now up by 10! Skol!), so if you need to kill time while you wait, here are some good things to read.<\/p>\n
One of the best blogs you’ll find about the children’s book industry is Editorial Anonymous<\/a>. I was giddy to get an honorable mention in EdAnon’s contest to come up with a new publishing myth<\/a>. And I totally accept the silver; the winner’s was great.<\/p>\n I was thrilled to see that somebody was writing Mrs. Piggle Wiggle fan fiction<\/a>, and even thrilleder that it was my pal Laurel Snyder, author of Any Which Wall<\/em> and other wonderful old school-style books, which makes her the perfect person to pen that pastiche. I was a big Mrs. Piggle Wiggle when I was in my chapter book phase. She and Paddington Bear and Encyclopedia Brown populated my dreams in first and second grade.<\/p>\n