Fighting Rape Culture: Steubenville, Activism, and Children’s Books http://www.philnel.com/2013/03/20/stoprape/

The Streisand Effect should be renamed the Edwin Mellen Effect. http://www.philnel.com/2013/03/05/edwinmellen/

Maurice Sendak’s Final Interview, in which he discusses movies, publishing, and the creative process. And curses. A lot. (Warning: Some language NSFW.) http://www.philnel.com/2013/02/23/sendaktcj/

Introducing the Niblings, a new children’s literature bloggers’ consortium. http://www.philnel.com/2013/02/21/niblings/

Celebrate Lincoln’s 204th Birthday & tonight’s State of the Union with Lane Smith’s Abe Lincoln’s Dream. http://www.philnel.com/2013/02/11/lincoln/

Why the Edwin Mellen Press’s lawsuit against Dale Askey should fail, and how we can help. http://www.philnel.com/2013/02/08/freedaleaskey/

What is Mr. O’Malley talking about? Some notes on Crockett Johnson’s Barnaby. http://www.philnel.com/2013/01/26/barnaby2notes/

Remembering Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), woodcut artist and children’s-book illustrator. http://www.philnel.com/2013/01/13/frasconi/

On board Southwest 1328 to Boston & wondering what percentage of us are MLA bound. (Also trying to assess utility of MLA Commons, even though I should be working on a panel proposal….)

Panels on Children’s Literature and on Comics/Graphic Narratives at #MLA13 http://www.philnel.com/2012/12/24/mla2013/