End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup

Quick links from around the kid-lit blogosphere:

Children’s Choice Awards. Brad mentioned the Children’s Choice Awards last week for Children’s Book Week. You can see all the winners here, but it’s really worth also checking out this page with all the finalists–which includes a lot of books that we’ve loved at our house over the past year, like the Donut Chef, Swords, and Smash! Crash!.

The Cat in the Hat, in cartoon form. There’s finally going to be a cartoon version of The Cat in the Hat, specifically the early-reader Learning Library series, running on PBS with Martin Short as the voice of the Cat. Publishers Weekly has all the details.

Booklights. Speaking of PBS: as mentioned here before, PBS has a new kid-lit blog called Booklights. They’ve gotten off to a great start, and last week we found about newish cat-related books, some of your better board books, and a “complete madhouse” Rick Riordan/Percy Jackson event.

Dueling Maxes. DIY Where the Wild Things Are mania continues! This week, Super Punch brought us two of the coolest Maxes (Maxi?) yet, detailed here and here:

As the mom of the former Max said, she made it “b/c no costume company makes one. :)” Some cursory Google research supports that, so… that must mean there’s a licensing issue? If so, that’s some extremely cute copyright infringement.

“Top 100 Picture Books,” Highlander Edition. You probably won’t be surprised by the number one pick in Fuse #8’s fun picture-book countdown–especially given the previous item–but if you weren’t following along, you’ll have to click through for the results: behold, in all their linky glory.

“Six Classic Kids’ Books on Uncontrollable Urges.” I had to go back and read Jonah Lehrer’s article in the May 18 New Yorker after Heidi forwarded me this very funny follow-up from the magazine’s Book Bench blog. I had heard about the 1960s marshmallow experiments described in the Lehrer piece, which basically tested self-control in four-year-olds, but the science going on behind them–then and now–should be fascinating reading for both parents and science nerds (and we fall under both of those categories around here).

New “Notes from the Horn Book.” The latest installment of the Horn Book’s always-worthwhile monthly newsletter is out. Featured books include two of Silas’ favorites, Flip, Flap, Fly! and The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau (which Heidi previously wrote about).

Goodnight Moon reinterpreted as the inside of a lava lamp. Funny comic commentary on the Margaret Wise Brown classic. (via Original Content)

Tiny, tiny sweaters. If you watched the Coraline movie (based on the Neil Gaiman book), you might have wondered who made those tiny, tiny sweaters. ShelfTalker points us to the answer:

Knitters: don’t miss the pdf pattern.–Paul