Twitterville Talk #18

Not too much news on Twitter this week but what was there is big.



Joy Fleishhacker blogging at School Library Journal lets readers know in her article Watch and Read:  One Cool Cat-Puss In Boots that a spin-off prequel to Shrek is hitting the silver screen on October 28, Puss in Boots, The Cat, The Boots, The Legend.  Loads more information can be found at the official web site and enjoy the other books as tie-ins.

Kudos to actor Alec Baldwin for his $10,000. donation to a floundering public library.

On October 12 the National Book Award finalists in Young People's Literature were announced.  They are My Name Is Not Easy, Inside Out and Back Again, Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy, Shine and Okay for Now.  Before the day was over another title was added, for the first time ever, due to a communication error.  It is Chime.

New titles that made the New York Times Bestsellers list this week are:  If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Numeroff (1), Llama, Llama Red Pajamas by Anna Dewdney (3), Happy Pig Day! by Mo Willems (4) and The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle (5) in the children's picture book category.  In the children's chapter book group Rick Riordan's Son of Neptune came out as number one and The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins followed in second.