Kester Smith:  Reading Snarkout Boys and the Avacado of Death is like eating a doughnut.
What a joy it was to rediscover this novel from my childhood. A story of lonely misfits making their way through high school, slowly and maybe not so surely. This was the theme I sought out in fiction almost exclusively from the 5th through 9th grade.
Hm.  Then you entered high school and moved on to Jack Kerouac or something, I'm guessing?

Apparently this is a forgotten book.

Hey!  Look!  Someone lifted my Norb scan!

Sarah Deming:  Here I am with my favorite writer, Daniel Pinkwater, after a delicious lunch at the Eveready Diner in Hyde Park .  Also with Jill Pinkwater.

Here Pinkwater is on the Bob Edwards show.

Review of Mrs. Noodlekugel
The cover of this book caught my eye since it reminded me of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series that I loved in my childhood. 
Try not to hold that against it.


10 Weirdest Childrens Book Authors of All Time
Bruce Coville is number one, apparently.  I read the last two "My Teacher is an Alien" books more or less because I had read the first and felt obligated to pull to the end.  Was a tad annoyed by the moralizing (a standard classic moral to watch less tv).


More here.  All kids everywhere love The Stinky Cheeseman, surely.  Fighting over that one at quiet reading time was a favored pastime in my elementary school classrooms.  
Actually... I liked the Three Wolves parody better.  But I was getting cranky with breaking the fourth wall premises at that point.


Protesting at Pearson Education HQ.
Occupy the Bronx
etc. etc.  politics.  current events.  bleh.