I had the fortune to attend School Library Journal's "Day of Dialog" a full-day program for librarians, critics, publishers, and other book people at the Book Expo America convention. A fascinating panel discussion on "Steampunkery" (a literary genre and subculture). If you are not familiar with this phenomenon and want to learn more, you can watch the panel right here: http://vimeo.com/12054016 "Drawing the Line Between Picture Books and Graphic Novels," an amazing conversation about the boundaries between the two genres. An interesting distinction for me was stated by illustrator David Wiesner, who said that picture books are (usually) meant to be read aloud whereas graphic novels are to be read alone. Agreed. Lastly, I attended the panel "The Care and Feeding of Tweens: Who are they, where are they, and what do they respond to?"
If you are so inclined, you can watch videos of two of these panels here:
Steampunk Panel - SLJ Day of Dialog, BEA 2010 from School Library Journal on Vimeo.
Tween panel: SLJ Day of Dialog, BEA 2010 from School Library Journal on Vimeo.
Cornelia Funke (The Thief Lord, The Inkheart trilogy) read the first chapter of her new book Reckless, to be released in September. She is as magical and captivating as her books!
One of the other perks of going to Book Expo is coming out with as many posters and advanced readers' copies that you can stuff into the free literarily-decorated giveaway bags. I'm eager to read Tony Diterlizzi's Wondla as well as Inrid Law's Scumble and David Tanis' Heart of the Artichoke and Other Kitchen Journeys (for my personal cookbook collection)
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