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I just stumbled upon this YouTube reading of Backbeard: Pirate for Hire by a pirate named Harvey the Corpsman (love the name!). Great job, Harvey. You’re welcome aboard the Five O’Clock Shadow any day.

Yesterday, the UPS man arrived with the first copy of Benjamin Franklinstein Meets The Fright Brothers, hot off the presses. (Larry doesn’t even have his copy yet.) I’m very excited about this one!

It picks up where the first book left off, but I think we were really able to take it in some interesting new directions. Look for it in stores in just a couple weeks.

Here’s something cool that arrived in my inbox this week: the layout for the new Brazilian edition of Even Monsters Need Haircuts, which is just about to go to press. (Click to see the full image.) I know our world keeps getting smaller, but this sort of thing never fails to blow me away.

Hey Brazilian elementary schools – anyone interested in an author visit?

Just found out that Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! made the Texas Librarian’s Choices list for 2010. A big thank y’all to those fine Texas librarians!

Librarian’s Choices

I just came across this fascinating look at the typesetting, printing, and production of books from the days before digital typesetting. Amazing!