Colleen explains her master plan (mwahaha) behind organizing the Summer Blog Blast Tour, which will be taking the kidlit-o-verse by storm next week, including this space, with a host of interviews with fabulous, fabulous authors. I’ll have fun little interviews with Cecil Castellucci, Bennett Madison, Holly Black, and Ysabeau Wilce. Master schedule linkage shortly.
New English children’s laureate Michael Rosen slams education policy: "There is a huge push on to create an environment – in nurseries, and reception, and year ones and year twos – where books are secondary to the process of reading. This seems oxymoronic to me. We must, must have at the heart of learning to read the pleasure that is reading."