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The Hugo Cabret trailer has been released.

I hadn't realized that they were renaming it.

Considering that I was too lazy to type out the whole name of the book in the title of this post, though, I can't say that I'm particularly surprised.

Also: BEN KINGSLEY. Love him.

Super Diaper Baby reversal!

Poor old Super Diaper Baby is no longer welcome in the Brown Elementary School library in Channelview, TX.

Will there be a reversal of the reversal?

WHO KNOWS?

If you need me, I'll be here, waiting with bated breath.

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Super Diaper Baby safe in Texas!

The full-length Tintin trailer has been released.

I'm still totally creeped out by the animation and I loathe 3D, but... I'm going to see it:

How have I never read Jonah Hex?

In response to a post I wrote about Loveless over at Guys Lit Wire, Justin kindly rounded up a few more western comic books.

Any other recommendations? (Besides Preacher. Amazingly profane and shockingly violent, it stars an ex-preacher named Jesse Custer (note the initials) who is tracking down God, his crack-shot girlfriend, Tulip, and a seemingly happy-go-lucky Irish vampire named Cassidy who adores getting into barfights. Obviously, I've read THAT.)

Super Diaper Baby safe in Texas!

So, last year, a five-year-old kid got suspended from Brown Elementary in Channelview, TX, for a day after calling his classmate a "poo-poo head".

That, in itself, sounds overboard enough to be questionable to me -- wouldn't you think there'd have been more to it? But all I have to go on is this article. Who knows, maybe the school has a no-tolerance policy on name calling.

So, anyway. Now, a year later, the student -- now six -- brought home Dav Pilkey's amazingly awesomely hilarious The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby. Still simmering (I'm guessing) about last year's suspension, the mother promptly challenged the book on the basis that if her son got suspended for using language like that, then the library shouldn't offer books that use similar language.

Basically, it's the same argument that gets used against books with profanity in high school libraries. But funnier, because, you know: POOP.

Anyway, the result is in and the challenge committee found in favor of the book.

So Super Diaper Baby will continue to adventure on in Texas, hopefully foiling Deputy Doo-Doo's Dastardly Plots for many more years to come.

A few short reviews.

I've been posting super brief reviews -- books that don't inspire me to blather about at length (or that have been languishing in my To Be Reviewed pile) -- at my tumblr.

• Top Ten: Book One, by Alan Moore and Gene Ha
• Ten Miles Past Normal, by Frances O'Roark Dowell
• Invitation Only: Private, #2, by Kate Brian
• Betrayal: Haunting Emma, #2, by Lee Nichols

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Previously:

A few short reviews.
A few short reviews.

And the Boston Public Library's 2011/12 Children's Writer-in-Residence is...

...Sarah Winifred Searle, who, once upon a time, was in my YA book group at the public library!

Woo for her and congratulations to the BPL for having the smarts to snag such an awesome lady!