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Friday, November 16th, 2012Bookbits for May 8th, 2012
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
First things first: Our 40th birthday party is coming up! Please be sure to have a look at what is going on (mostly in Amsterdam, since she’s the proper birthday girl this year), and please, if you can, drop by! We would love to see you. 
- R. I. P. Maurice Sendak, who will be eternally loved for Where the Wild Things Are, died today. The NY Times has an obituary. Thanks, Simone, for the well-timed tip.
- Awards! The Arthur C. Clarke Award was awarded to Jane Rogers for her book The Testament of Jessie Lamb. In an entirely different direction: cooks, click on over to the James Beard Foundation Awards page, where you’ll find oodles of winning cookbooks in many, many different categories (too many to name here!). Cookbook of the Year was awarded to Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet. Yes, it’s crazily expensive. It’s also 2400 pages and fat as an illegally stuffed goose.
- Of course, the Pulitzer Prize was not awarded in the Fiction category this year – so the NY Times did the vote again themselves. Still no majority, though.
- Lists! Authors vs. critics dustups (via flavorwire). Interesting to see how often the same people are involved…
More Awards! In the US, Children’s Book Week began yesterday with a gala and the Children’s Choice Book Awards, voted for solely by children. The winners are: Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6: Cabin Fever (Author of the Year), Brian Selznick for Wonderstruck (Illustrator of the Year), Three Hens and a Peacock by Lester L. Laminack and Henry Cole (K – 2nd Grade), Bad Kitty Meets the Baby by Nick Bruel (3rd/4th Grade), Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt (5th/6th Grade), and Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare (Teen).
- The Guardian features an extract of the upcoming Wolf Hall sequel by Hilary Mantel, called Bring Up the Bodies. They also have a very lengthy profile on Kate Summerscale, author of award-winning The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Or, The Murder at Road Hill House.
- Have some cash to spare and love to decipher terrible French handwriting? Two unpublished pages from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry will be auctioned later this month.
You Review: Faery Tales & Nightmares by Melissa Marr
Friday, April 13th, 2012Reviewed by Gabriëlle Linger
This book is exactly what its title describes, filled with faery tales and nightmares. I’ve always loved faery tales and the stories in this book are no exception. I’m less fond of nightmares, but in this book I found the nightmares to be more gripping than the faery tales.
Faery Tales and Nightmares is a collection of short stories. The change from one happy story into a nightmare can be a bit abrupt. One minute you’re sighing about the apparent happily ever after, and on the next page a new short story starts and you find yourself elbow deep into someone’s guts.
The first few stories in the book appear to be stand alone. From the second half onwards though, the stories are clearly set in the world of Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely series. While those stories were still very interesting to read, it also got a little bit confusing at times. I was still able to follow along, even if I hadn’t read her series, but it was clear that the world and the characters are meant to be familiar. Which they weren’t for me. Not yet anyways. Now that I’ve read it – I especially liked the world building, and the complicated relationships of the stories set in the Wicked Lovely world – I’ll definitely be putting the Wicked Lovely series on my to-read list.
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Happy Kinderboekenweek!
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011Kinderboekenweek started today, and loads of things are happening to celebrate children’s books all across the country. And at ABC, too, of course! Here’s a round-up:
If you buy a children’s book during Kinderboekenweek, you will receive a free € 2.50 ABC Gift Voucher! Details about this promotion can be found right here.
Tell us about the superhero in your life, and win a € 15 ABC gift certificate! See the rules and some possible suggestions right here. The three most inspiring entries win gift certificates! The final date for sending in your entry is Monday, October 10th.
There’s still time to win The Power of Six goodies! See the rules and our supermodel Jitse posing with the t-shirt right here. The final date for sending in the answer to the posed question is Monday, October 17th.
Meet children’s book writer and illustrator Leanne Delehanty! She’ll be coming to both ABC Den Haag and ABC Amsterdam to present her book Jimmy and the Pink Diamond, so you have no excuse to miss her. See the separate post for all the details right here.
And finally, we’re all really excited about the fact that there is now an English translation of Pluk van de Petteflet, the book that, next to Jip and Janneke, is read to pretty much every Dutchman (or -woman) in the country when they’re little. It’s called Tow-Truck Pluck, has all the iconic Fiep Westendorp illustrations, is translated by David Colmer (who shared the IMPAC Dublin Award with Gerbrand Bakker for his translation of The Twin), and can be found at both stores. Yay!
