Staff Pick
A witty, bold, and adventurous tale that combines modern sentiment with traditional fairy tale elements. This book is so imaginative and visually evocative that both children and adults will be entertained from start to finish. A great choice for fans of J.K. Rowling, Roald Dahl, and Lewis Carroll.
Beth
(via bookoisseur)
Good news, teens! The deadlines for One Teen Story’s fiction contest and general admissions have been extended. The new deadlines are:
One Teen Story Contest — New Deadline — June 8, 2012 and
One Teen Story General Submissions — New Deadline — June 15, 2012
Send those stories! Hurry!
June 9th - Special guests Andrea Beatty and David Roberts
We’re thrilled to welcome Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, author and illustrator of the hilarious Iggy Peck, Architect. A McNally Jackson favorite, Iggy Peck, Architect, has garnered numerous awards and was selected as one of Time magazine’s top ten children’s books. Kids and adults love Iggy’s ingenious architectural inventions and his passionate devotion to building with any and all materials (peaches, pancakes, a teacher’s shoe). Andrea and David will treat kids to an illustrated reading, and lead kids in a creative architecture workshop. We’ll provide raw materials so kids can build whatever inspires them—whether it’s the zoo of the future or soaring architecture for aliens. Hosted by Yvonne Ages. Ages 3 to 8. Free.
Saturday, May 26, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Meet Artist & Author Kris Di Giacomo
Meet award-winning artist Kris Di Giacomo at McNally Jackson. Her newest collaboration, My Dad is Big and Strong, But … (author Coralie Saudo, illustrator Kris Di Giacomo; translated from the French by Claudie Zoe Bedrick), is perfect for anyone who’s ever tried to reason with a chandelier-swinging child—or adult. Kris will lead a dynamic art workshop, share the secrets of her inventive style, and help us incorporate humor into our art. We’re very excited to welcome Kris (who’s flying in from France), and the book’s fantastic translator, Claudia Zoe Bedrick (who’s biking in from Brooklyn), to Saturday Storytime. Hosted by Yvonne Brooks. Ages 3 to 8. Free.
Staff Pick
If you loved When You Reach Me, you’ll fall instantly, passionately in love with this book. Set in the middle-space where change happens — between school years, between elementary school and middle school, between childhood and teenagehood, the suburbs and the woods — this setting is ripe for transformative storytelling that sweeps you away on a cast of characters you’ll recognize from your own childhood. With just enough magic and mystery, lazy, timeless afternoons, and snooping, this is a perfect summertime — or anytime — read.
Sarah G.
WE NEED 500-WORD REVIEWS OF THE FOLLOWING BOOKS.
This means any of them can be yours for FREE. But you have to act fast! We only have one copy of each, and this deal is
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
ALSO: You can only have your book if you promise to write for this here blog. We want to know what you really think of them. Your deepest, most honest literary feelings about these authors’ hard work. Under those circumstances…
You can have as many free books as you want (one at a time). So.
Choose well, and when you have chosen, send an email to the address at the bottom of this list. Tell the person at the other end (her name is Sarah)
1. Your name (first name, last initial)
2. How old you are
3. Which book you want
GO.
- The White Glove War by Katie Crouch and Gray Hendrix (Pub 7/12)
- A World Away by Nancy Grossman (Pub 7/12)
- The Secret Tree by Natalie Standiford (Pub 4/12)
- The Templeton Twins by Ellis Weiner (Pub 9/12)
- Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols (Pub 7/12)
- Don’t Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon (Pub 9/12)
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Pub 5/12)
- Unstoppable by Time Green (Pub 9/12)
- Belles by Jen Calonita (Pub 4/12)
- The Boy Recession by Flynn Meaney (Pub 8/12)
- Messy by Heather Cox and Jessica Morgan (Pub 6/12)
- A Midsummer’s Nightmare by Kody Keplinger (Pub 6/12)
- The Spindlers by Lauren Oliver (Pub 9/12)
- Defiance by C. J. Redwine (Pub 9/12)
- The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann (Pub 9/12)
- Guys Read 3: The Sports Pages by Jon Scieszka (Pub 9/12)
- Beta by Rachel Cohn (Pub 10/12)
- Son by Lois Lowry (Pub 10/12)
- Survivors 1: The Empty City by Erin Hunter (Pub 9/12)
- Breathe by Sarah Crossan (Pub 10/12)
- What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang (Pub 9/12)
- A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean (Pub 9/12)
- The Other Normals by Ned Vizzini (Pub 10/12)
- The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons (Pub 10/12)
- The Secret Prophecy by Herbie Brennan (Pub 11/12)
- Ungifted by Gordan Korman (Pub 9/12)
- The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech (Pub 9/12)
- Double Vision by F. T. Branley (10/12)
- The Turning by Francine Prose (10/12)
- Through to You by Emily Hainsworth (10/12)
- Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You by Joyce Carol Oates (9/12)
- The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer (Pub 7/12)
- Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead (Pub 8/12)
- Sky High by Patricia Reilly Giff (Pub 10/12)
- All You Never Wanted by Adele Griffin (Pub 10/12)
- The Orphan King: Book 1 by Sigmund Brouwer (Pub 7/12)
- Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore (Pub 9/12)
- Sacred by Elana K. Arnold (Pub 11/12)
- Under My Hat: Tales From the Cauldron, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Pub 8/12)
- The Flappers: Diva by Jillian Larkin (Pub 7/12)
- The Drowned Vault by N. D. Wilson (Pub 9/12)
- Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green by Helen Phillips (Pub 11/12)
Have you chosen? GREAT! Send an email to: Sarah at gerard@mcnallyjackson.com. Your book will be holding behind the front desk in our store.
And don’t forget: we have new books coming in all the time. If you want to know what’s up for grabs, just check the blog or email us.
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” — C. S. Lewis (via amorette)
(via teachingliteracy)
I like that there is a sloth…and you have to find him.
Also, the illustrations are so vibrant and beautiful.
This book tells a tale of how dangerous unchecked greed can be.
Maggie