Read Alert Roundup 16/02/07
I’ll get the bad news out of the way first: Jim Carrey is channeling his new-found spirituality into… writing a children’s book.
CYL’s top pick of 2006, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist has won the YA Cybils Award. Hurrah! Also Jonathan Stroud’s Ptolemy’s Gate won the Scifi/Fantasy Award. Double Hurrah!
The Cuffies have been announced (the faves and not-so-faves of US Booksellers): Our Markus’s The Book Thief was the Best Novel. Strangest requests/complaints: “I’d like a classic book to read aloud to my dog” and “”At our Lemony Snicket event, a customer was extremely upset because ‘the author didn’t show up and sent his representative, David Handler, instead’ “.
A US primary English teacher who accidentally exposed her students to pornographic images online (because the school’s computers didn’t have any adware/popups protection) is going to jail. So much for encouraging technology in the classroom.
And because it’s Friday, here is a documentary about the ALA conference, in the style of a nature documentary. It’s called March of the Librarians.
