12 November 2008

Tagged!



A while back, children's book guru and readiologist extraordinaire Esme Raji Codell of Planet Esme was kind enough to tag my delinquent self with the I Heart Your Blog honor. Woohoo--thanks Esme!

(Note: Thanks to my much more observant wife, I just made the connection that Esme is the Esme from Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year... a great book about teaching which I read back in 2001. Holy crap! As someone who works in education, consider me doubly honored!)

Now the rules of the game say that the blogs I tap are supposed to:

1) Add the logo of the award to your blog
2) Add a link to the person who awarded it to you
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs
4) Add links to those blogs on your blog
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs!

HOWEVER, I realize this is late in the game and some of you may have already been tagged. So in case you've been previously hearted, I'm offering several alternative options. Here's the deal: do any of the following things and consider yourself exempt your from the rules above!

1) Draw a heart on your palm, go up to one person and say "Stop! In the Name of Love!"
2) Send me a definition of the made up word: Boomdalpiferous.
3) Next time you walk through a revolving door, go around twice.
4) Link to Bottom Shelf Books, but with the words "Tina Fey's Super Secret Crush".
5) Perform open heart surgery.

Deal? Now, without further ado and in no particular order, 7 children's lit blogs that I'm glad exist:

Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Like the storm in the Wizard of Oz, the ladies at 7-Imp hit your dull world like a tornado and suddenly the whole world is more colorful... if also disturbingly surreal and with the occasional flying monkey attack.

Saints & Spinners: Kid's books, Photoshop chops & guitar tabs... what else could you want? Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again, her Children's Books That Never Were feature is pure genius and I still don't forgive her for thinking of it first.

Finding Wonderland: Because in addition to being generally awesome, the names AquaFortis & TadMack sounds like something that would be on Cartoon Network after dark. The most potent duo this side of Macaroni & Cheese.

MotherReader: Sprinkling her insightful posts with hilarious rants, the occasional naughty word, and adventures in politics, she is one bad ass mother. (p.s. hell yeah, VA!)

A Fuse #8 Production: There's a saying, "If someone says they love movies, but they haven't seen any Hitchcock... then they don't really love movies." By that same token, If someone says they love children's literature, but haven't read A Fuse #8 Production... then they don't like really love children's literature.

The Jarrett Krosoczka and Maxwell Eaton III blogs: Because they are both fun blogs that let us into the minds of some hip kickass authors... and also because when I was just getting started these author dudes were down for some goofy spoofy interviews. (Plus: Jarrett and I shared drinks once and Max and I share a birthday. So there.)

Of course there are many others, but the rules say seven, so I'm stopping at seven.

Oh, and one last thing: Tina Fey's Super Secret Crush.

12 comments:

Saints and Spinners said...

You are most definitely Tina Fey's Super Secret Crush.

Minh said...

Hey! You're too fast for me! Can I still say "Tag, you're it!"?

Jules at 7-Imp said...

Aw, shucks. That means a lot coming from you. Thanks. Blush. Blush. We heart you, too.

Sarah Stevenson said...

We're so flattered, Minh!! You rock. And that picture makes me want to say "Spoon!" although it would truly cement my dork status.

Shoot. Being tagged means I gotta think now. Dude!

Anonymous said...

Minh! This was supposed to be a secret. Now that you've blabbed it, I don't know what to do. Maybe I'll ask Jules to ask A.Fortis to ask Alkelda the Gleeful if you like me.

Argh! I can't stand the suspense anymore. If you like me, please tell Alkelda to tell A.Fortis to tell Jules, so that I have time to think of a witty way to convince you to ask me to the Winter Blogosphere Ball.

Anonymous said...

How can I compete with Tina Fey? I can't. I'll just say "mucho thanks" instead.

Saints and Spinners said...

Hey! You're the #1 Google hit for "Tina Fey's Super Secret Crush."

Beth Kephart said...

Wow. I never feel cool, but today I feel a whole six/seventh cool because I read all of these blogs except for the seventh which I shall now go explore.

Gracias.

Minh said...

Thanks for the reciprocated love! (especially you, Tina. wink, wink.)

Maxwell Eaton III said...

Thanks a ton, Minh!

Of course this doesn't change the fact that you owe me ten bucks...

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