MORE POSTS FROM NOVEMBER 2013
ONE CAME HOME by Amy Timberlake came out way back in January and has waited patiently for some attention on this blog. It falls into a subgenre that I think on the whole is overrated and overrepresented: Spunky/Feisty/Quirky Girl with a Southern/Country/Folksy Voice and a Dead/Missing/Absent Mother (or in this case Sister). When it’s done […]
A little back and forth about what kind of writing lasts longer got me thinking about this frequently cited non-criteria for the Newbery. Nowhere do the Newbery Criteria say that a winner must be “lasting.” For good reason, I think, as there is really no way to tell, from our relative point of view in time, […]
I’LL BE THERE by Holly Goldberg Sloan was always on my list of books to read because of the interesting plot summary and the appealing cover art but I never got around to it, so I had to change that this time around when her second book, COUNTING BY 7s, racked up even more starred […]
While we’re spending some time in the upper age ranges of the Newbery, I wanted to talk about Jack Gantos’ FROM NORVELT TO NOWHERE. Jonathan touched on it in his post Revisting Sequels, where I was tickled to hear him confess he likes it better than the first, since I’ve been toying with that […]
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