Noblemania

One year and 142 posts ago (starting with this one ), I launched this blog. As is my tendency, I was late in keeping up with a cultural shif...

In November, I was one of eight honored guests (all either illustrators or author-illustrators) to give a talk at a weekend institute at the...

On Saturday, February 14, I will be one of 172 authors and author-illustrators participating in Kids Heart Authors Day . We will be spread a...

In January, I spoke at Mission Valley Middle School in Prairie Village, Kansas, and the experience continues to humble and impress me. I alr...

I gave this interview in August and it was not posted until January, by which time a couple of tidbits had become outdated (for example, I ...

In November 2008, I spoke at (then blogged about ) the Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books. The way this place runs an even...

Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman was one of 75 children's books (out of an estimated 6,000 published last year) to be named an A...

Bill Finger died at 59. Had he lived, he would have turned 95 today. Finger was meagerly documented in his own life. The extent of his actua...

The two most prestigious awards in children's publishing are the Newbery (given to an author for excellence in writing, almost always a ...

The Johnson County Sun ran an article about my Superman's First Home on Earth author tour .

Thirty-five years ago today, Bill Finger, the uncredited co-creator and original writer of Batman, died in New York City. No mainstream obit...

First, Elizabeth Bird, the grande dame of librarian bloggers, gave Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman a luminescent review . Then, mon...

Families Online reviewed Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman , and it included that hugely humbling line — but I will settle for the bo...

The Cuyahoga (Ohio) County Public Library said nice things about Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman .

Read That Again graded Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman a B+: "... a fine biographical work, with a fun, positive tone...the.....

The Belmont Public Library in Massachusetts included Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman on their list of their best books of 2008 .

The first line of the review of Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman at The Comics Reporter suggests a positive take is forthcoming. So...

Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook , named Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman his Read-Aloud of the Week. Here's the ...

The Tonganoxie Mirror , a Kansas newspaper, covered my January 8 visit to Tonganoxie High School as part of the Superman's First Home o...

On January 13, I had the honor of giving an hour-and-a-half presentation on Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman at the 92nd Street Y ...

Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman was one of ten books for older readers named a Sydney Taylor Notable Book of Jewish Content for 200...

In the real world, Superman was molded in Ohio. In the comics, Superman —to be precise, Clark Kent —was molded in Kansas. He grew up on a f...

On the evening of January 13 , I will be speaking at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. This is not your ordinary Y . Past speakers at this...

This will most likely be my last post of the first year I have blogged. Thank you to those who come here regularly. I appreciate the support...

The San Francisco Chronicle included Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman on its list of book suggestions for the holidays .