Right so – this is the first post from Very Hungry Caterpillar. This blog will be dedicated to all issues around children’s books and reading in Ireland. In my role with www.childrensbooksireland.ie I am constantly unearthing little nuggets of information about children, books, reading, libraries and authors and illustrators. Recently I’ve realised that I am constantly sending links to different people and I thought it would make more sense to organise this information into something more coherent.
And so Very Hungry Caterpillar was born. I intend to keep this blog updated and active, provided CBI doesn’t get in the way too much. I’ll also try to keep the focus Irish and International at the same time. If you have suggestions for inclusion in the Blog or the Blog roll, do please send them in. I’ll include anything that seems relevant but be warned I won’t just copy and paste your press release to fill space……..
Thanks for visiting and do please keep updated with VHC
June 9, 2008 at 4:46 pm |
Welcome to the blogosphere!
June 25, 2008 at 11:13 am |
Look forward to reading your updates (what is your name though? I don’t see it mentioned on the site).
At some point I hope you broach more contentious topics in this field…
e.g. the decline in quality found in the children’s section of bookshops (subtract celebrity/television tie-in titles, series books, and what are you left with? Sometimes nothing!).
And the sad fact that parents are too busy/”busy” to read to their young children. preferring to park them in front of the TV for hours on end.
February 23, 2009 at 7:49 am |
I have a great book for you to mention! The Invention of Hugo Cabret is part picture book, part prose, but certainly intended for a slightly older audience than we generally think of for picture books. Brian Selznick opts to use wonderfully crafted images to carry the book forward, saving on words (1,000 words and all). I started reading it to my 6 and 8 year olds. The eight year old took over the reading because we were in the car on the way somewhere and she COULDN’T wait to hear what happened next. She read aloud because NONE of us wanted to miss the next bit! (That doesn’t often happen with me and kids’ books.)