{"id":26296,"date":"2015-01-31T22:39:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=26296"},"modified":"2015-01-31T22:49:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:49:04","slug":"abrams-book-buzz-at-ala-midwinter-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=26296","title":{"rendered":"Abrams Book Buzz at ALA Midwinter Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This morning, at ALA Midwinter Meeting, I started off my morning in the Book Buzz Theater for the Abrams Preview of upcoming titles.<\/p>\n

Here are my notes:<\/p>\n

Abrams Book Buzz
\nMac Barnett & Jory John started it off, talking about their new book, The Terrible Two – It’s a book about pranksters.
\nA kid comes to a new school and wants to be the school prankster, but this school already has a prankster. He must outdo and uncover the other. A book about friendship.
\nThe audience took the prankster’s oath! “amuse the merry” “dismay the dour”<\/p>\n

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Tom Angleberger
\nNew book: The Rat with the Human Face
\nEnded the Origami Yoda series last year because the story was ending.
\nRelaunching the Qwikpik series.
\nWhat they are about: A poop fountain, and a rat with a human face — sort of cast as historical fiction. About real kids. Need to find the audience.
\nNew book in the fall: Picture book about a toad McToad Mo’s Tiny Island.
\nIt has every form of toddler-beloved transportation.<\/p>\n

Daniel Kirk — You Are Not My Friend, But I Miss You
\nand The Thing About Spring
\nA little simpler than his previous books.
\nCharacter ended up being a sock monkey (like one he’d stolen as a child).
\nFavorite toy is stolen — can he get a new friend or not? Be his own best friend?
\nThe Thing About Spring – a character who hates spring and doesn’t want anything to change. Trying to save snow for later.<\/p>\n

Andrea Beaty – Rosie Revere Engineer will be going to the International Space Station this fall — Storytime from Space!
\nHappy Birthday, Madame Chapeau, illus by David Roberts
\nandreabeaty.com has info about the illustration process.
\nFluffy Bunnies 2: The Schnoz of Doom sequel to Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies.
\nOriginally, it was supposed to be about bunnies so cute they make the cats on the internet weep from jealousy. Became six-foot-tall scary bunnies from outer space and their planet is going to be struck by a marshmallow.
\nKids save the earth from the enormous fluffy bunnies — until now. It’s a hybrid graphic novel with Dan Santat. Some real science, but utterly stupid.<\/p>\n

Ethan Long: Hi! An original board book series.
\nProfile eyes to make it subdued and unthreatening. 18 words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, at ALA Midwinter Meeting, I started off my morning in the Book Buzz Theater for the Abrams Preview of upcoming titles. Here are my notes: Abrams Book Buzz Mac Barnett & Jory John started it off, talking about their new book, The Terrible Two – It’s a book about pranksters. A kid comes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[176,347],"class_list":["post-26296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-corner","tag-alamw","tag-alamw15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}