By: Kara Schaff Dean,
on 4/27/2012
2012 marks the 100th birthday of Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, and children's publishing is on the ball. There have been some lovely children's books published this year, focusing on the park and the team, and I plan to read and review them all! I'm starting with Dan Gutman's Ted and Me, which is the eleventh volume in Gutman's Baseball Card Adventure series. The premise of the
By: shelf-employed,
on 4/2/2012
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| Fenway Park turns100 this year. This photo is from my vacation in 2011. |
By: Kara Schaff Dean,
on 9/16/2011
I've been obsessing about the amount of attention Ted Williams gets within the realm of children's literature. Must be all those pin-stripped covers I've been forced to stock over the years. I was well pleased to read Fred Bowen's No Easy Way , and I thoroughly enjoyed The Unforgettable Season by Phil Bildner, even if Williams did have to share the book with Joe Dimaggio. Now, I can look
By: Kara Schaff Dean,
on 2/13/2011
Just in time for Spring Training! Last year, the release of the excellent No Easy Way by Fred Bowen finally introduced Ted Williams as a subject for picture book biographies, a move which was long overdue in my opinion. This spring he is making an appearance again in The Unforgettable Season, written by Phil Bildner with illustrations by S.D. Schindler. The book is about the summer of 1941, when
By: Kara Schaff Dean,
on 9/23/2009
Dear Mr. Gutman,As I sit here, with the sun setting on the 2009 baseball season, hanging around and waiting for the Red Sox to clinch a postseason berth (magic number currently stands at 6,) my mind is wandering (it's not a very interesting game.) I have been following the adventures of Joe Stoshack since Honus, straight through to Ray, with various degrees of interest. I keep coming back to the
Perfect timing for a baseball book! Ted Williams was incredible. I've got the Durham Bulls on my mind as well. I need to find my way to a game this year.
Yes, I guess I'm headed to your neck of the woods. Because of the movie, Bull Durham, you've got, arguably, the best-known minor league team in the country!