Check out the Japanification book

The Normal Public Library has The Japanification of Children's Popular Culture: From Godzilla to Miyazaki which was edited by Mark West. It has an essay that I wrote about the Nickelodeon television show Rugrats. It's great to see one's work in libraries.  On the subject of Miyazaki, we watched the Disney animated film Up recently. It's definitely a tribute to Miayzaki's work. The Pixar people seemed almost to be trying to hard to reflect the sentiment in the Japanese animator's work as well as include all of his standard motifs.  Consequently, the story line in Up seemed rather forced. The better Pixar films (the Toy Story series, The Incredibles) are more imaginative and do a better job of creating a believable overall world. and storyline.

And Amazon had to get another shipment of The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature.  Cool.