Coffee? Did you say coffee???? And a carnival???

We've all seen a lot of lists in the kidlitosphere this summer: cool boys, cool girls, cool teachers, my own oddball books famous authors would write, and others. But now Nancy over at Journey Woman has added a new wrinkle to everything: she's giving away a Starbucks gift card in the process of building her list of great antagonists in children's literature. Don't believe me?

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If you're not interested in coffee, what about toffee? And where might you possibly find some? At a carnival! Hmmm. Fine. Maybe not.

But that doesn't mean I can't remind you about the upcoming seventh Carnival of Children's Literature being hosted over at Wands and Worlds. The deadline is fast approaching for submissions -- (Yikes! I have to pick something!) -- but why not join the fun?