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by Laurel Snyder
"Laurel Snyder is the author of Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains, and Inside the Slidy Diner, as well as a poet, blogger and mom. She lives online at LaurelSnyder.com."

Top 10 Children's Literature (Kidlit) Blogs

Big A, little a
Recent Posts from this Blog:
Poetry Friday!
Poetry Friday: Halloween Edition
Weekend Reviews on a Monday

Bookshelves of Doom
Recent Posts from this Blog:
The Big Read IV: The Lottery and Other Stories -- Shirley Jackson "My Life with R. H. Macy"
Jack Black as Lemuel Gulliver?
Reginald Hill at Shelf Awareness.

Brooklyn Arden
Recent Posts from this Blog:
"He Attempts to Love His Neighbours," by Alden Nowlan
Full Circle
An Exhortation: 72 Hours

Grow Wings
Recent Posts from this Blog:
Artifacts, fossils, predators, corpses, lovers
The Gypsy Crown -- a book review
Thank you, America

Interactive Reader
Recent Posts from this Blog:
Blog the Vote
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
Sherman Alexie on Colbert

Jen Robinson's Book Page
Recent Posts from this Blog:
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception: Maggie Stiefvater
A Missed Opportunity?
Growing Bookworms Newsletter: Election Day Edition

Jezebel's Fine Lines
Recent Posts from this Blog
The Long Winter: Cold Comfort; Or, In Which I Don't Even Try To Fight The Metaphor
Hangin' Out With Cici: Time Outs
Remember Me: After Birth, After Life

Read Roger
Recent Posts from this Blog
When the Joke's On You
Come See Lolly!
Come See the Stupids Have a Ball!

School Library Journal's Fuse #8
Recent Posts from this Blog
Fusenews: Embarrassing Photo Edition
Bookfest 2008
Video Sunday: Politics and Poker (50 points for anyone who gets the reference)

Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Recent Posts from this Blog
Seven Questions Over Breakfast with Paul Rogers
YES WE CAN!!!
Poetry Friday: I’ve got a feeling…

"...where on earth is she going with that?"

If you've been following artbookschildren--or just got here--you might be wondering where on earth I'm going with all of this...I submit, herewith, a mission statement of sorts:

It's about how art and literature will be delivered to children in the future. Not the future tomorrow...for that, just take a glance at some of the varied, erudite, and exceedingly knowledgeable folks on the lower right, at blogs elsewhere. 

Read Roger, 7 Impossible Things, the Longstockings, + others...they'll all give you the best possible vantage point on children's literature today, methinks.

It's the day after tomorrow 

that I care about. 

In 5 years--

and 10 years, and 20--

how will children receive 

good art, great literature, 

thought-provoking ideas:

how can we, the grown-ups, provide it 

in the best possible way?

In 5 years--probably much sooner, actually--the world of

children's literature will be quite different: a bold new universe with exceedingly wonderful literary vehicles with which to reach the young. 

Let's reach them in the best possible way, shall we, with 

the best possible material? 

They are the future.

Let's do the best we can for them.