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[Catherine Brown <kbrown@BREVISCONSULT.COM>]

Greetings -- 

For the last year or so, I have been receiving weekly (I think it comes
weekly?) mailings from Publisher's Weekly Children's BookShelf.
[ChildrensBookshelf@
email.publishersweekly.com]   Unfortunately, I don't have the URL for the
page where you sign up to join the list, but I do remember that I came upon
it at the PW website.  

Every issue is chock full of wonderful information such as what books are
coming out when, what movie/book combos will be around and when, who's in
the process of writing what, interviews with authors and publishers (which
are quite informative in terms of what trends lie ahead), and lots of
gossip-y kinds of information about staff changes, editorial changes,
illustrations, pending mergers . . . sort of an inside track on children's
lit.  

The newsletter is pleasant to read, to-the-point, not a time hog to get
through, very well put together, and easy to read.  If I was in a school
this year, there are any number of articles I would have posted for the kids
to read including, of all things, the obituaries of writers and illustrators
they know.  (The obits are so well done, so informative, and such a tribute
to the body of work each person created that we will continue to enjoy for
years to come.) 

I do wish that there was an index for all the past issues as often remember
reading just the right thing but finding it doesn't often make it to the
to-do list.  I'll put that on my New Year's resolutions list -- create an
index to PW Children's Bookshelf.  

IF YOU SUBSCRIBE TO SIMILAR PUBLICATIONS, MAYBE YOU COULD send them to the
list, or to me off-list, and I'll put them together as a HIT.  I know I have
a couple more, but I also know I won't remember them until they show up in
my mailbox over the next month or two.  So let's say that this is an ongoing
invitation until the end of the year at which point I will publish the HIT.


In the meantime, if you join the PW list, I hope you get as much out of it
as I have.  

Kate Brown, M.Ed., M.S. 
labookworm@gmail.com
Research Consultant (temporarily, I hope!)  

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