Jennifer Howard

Ever since my children brought home a copy of Oliver Jeffers’s picture book The Incredible Book Eating Boy, it’s been a family favorite. It’s about a boy named Henry who devours book—really eats them, bindings and all. (The back cover has a big chomp taken out of it.) We sent Oliver a fan note, which he very kindly replied to. So I asked him if he’d mind answering a few questions, and he was kind enough to do that too. Look for his new picture book, The Heart in the Bottle, in March. Oliver does a lot of things… Read more...

My adventures in podcasting continue. First, I joined Dan Cohen, Mills Kelly, and Tom Scheinfeldt on their “Digital Campus” podcast (Episode 51, “The Inevitable iPad,” Jan. 28, 2010). We recorded the podcast the day after Apple’s big iPad announcement, so we talked a lot about what the iPad might or might not do for teaching and publishing. We also dug into Cornell’s decision to ask other institutions to help pay for arXiv, the repository where physicists, computer scientists, and others in related disciplines share pre-print copies of articles about the latest research in their fields. Side note: If you care… Read more...