Aaaaaaaaaand we're back! Our first podcast of 2013! Wooooo!
Yes, our iTunes feed still appears to be broken. No, we don't know why. Yes, we are working on it. Sorry!
While we were away, the 2012 Cybils were awarded. The Early Chapter Book winner, Sadie and Ratz by Sonya Hartnett (illustrated by Ann James), includes the scariest shadow puppets in living memory.
Are you reading Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong? Because you should be. Written by Prudence Shen and drawn by Faith Erin Hicks! Politics! Chainsaws! Killer robots! Nothing can possibly go wrong!
The first Bookslingers contest is on now: enter to win a copy of A Plain Scandal by Amanda Flower! Find out more in the blog post.
Neil Gaiman's Chu's Day, the thoroughly adorable picture-book story of Chu, a little panda with a big sneeze, came out in January (illustrated by Adam Rex). His new novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, comes out in June.
Like totally excellent radio plays filled with equally fabulous British actors like James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Anthony Head (and that's just the top of the list!)? The new BBC radio play adaptation of Neverwhere debuts on March 16th. It will be available on iPlayer, which means that we non-Brits will even be able to listen to it!
Our book of the week is Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. Dragons! A totally new take on dragons! No really! Also beautiful, beautiful worldbuilding and tension and politics and did I mention the dragons? And did I mention this is her debut novel? Welcome to the list of authors who make us feel inadequate, Rachel Hartman! I'm sure you, Kristin Cashore and Megan Whalen Turner will get along famously.
Books from this week's podcast:
- The Fire Chronicles by John Stephens
- The Gates by John Connoly
- Here, There Be Dragons by James A. Owen
- The Seeker by Isobelle Carmody
- Ordinary Magic by Caitlen Rubino-Bradway
- Swim the Fly by Don Calame
- Beat the Band by Don Calame
- The Appleseed Creek Mysteries by Amanda Flower
- Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
- Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
- Crown Jewel by Sherwood Smith
- Grave Mercy by Robin Lefevre
- A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson LeVine
