Comments on: >I blame Kate DiCamillo http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/ Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 17:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Streaming consciousness http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/#comment-10979 Streaming consciousness Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:18:45 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3676#comment-10979 >It's conservative action time in the publishing houses, no? Fantasy's been a bit overdone, so what is next? We go with the tried and true. Talking mice! Maybe next will be quaintly old fashioned slightly historical fiction... >It's conservative action time in the publishing houses, no? Fantasy's been a bit overdone, so what is next? We go with the tried and true. Talking mice! Maybe next will be quaintly old fashioned slightly historical fiction…

]]> By: anatidaeling http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/#comment-10950 anatidaeling Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:23:37 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3676#comment-10950 >Best middle grade anthropomorhic mouse book ever?<br /><br />The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires >Best middle grade anthropomorhic mouse book ever?

The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/#comment-10932 Elizabeth Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:19:23 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3676#comment-10932 >I think Roger was just saying that it's an odd little trendlette when 3 of our best-known authors, all with large bodies of work about humans, suddenly come out with books featuring talking mice. It does seem to be in the Zeitgeist--I also recently had an agent pitch a well-known British actor's first foray into fiction,and you guess it, it's a middle grade novel about mice. Who speak.<br /><br />The other trend I'm noticing (besides the much remarked on popularity of dystopian fiction) is characters named Callum and Xander. >I think Roger was just saying that it's an odd little trendlette when 3 of our best-known authors, all with large bodies of work about humans, suddenly come out with books featuring talking mice. It does seem to be in the Zeitgeist–I also recently had an agent pitch a well-known British actor's first foray into fiction,and you guess it, it's a middle grade novel about mice. Who speak.

The other trend I'm noticing (besides the much remarked on popularity of dystopian fiction) is characters named Callum and Xander.

]]> By: Ali http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/#comment-10924 Ali Sun, 17 Apr 2011 07:03:53 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3676#comment-10924 >Terry Pratchett's Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents? Also, didn't the mice in Coraline talk? >Terry Pratchett's Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents? Also, didn't the mice in Coraline talk?

]]> By: sdl http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/#comment-10923 sdl Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:58:02 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3676#comment-10923 >LOL! I forgot about that. Now I recall how much I wanted to hiss back "Dessss-purr-oh." >LOL! I forgot about that. Now I recall how much I wanted to hiss back "Dessss-purr-oh."

]]> By: Lois Lowry http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/#comment-10922 Lois Lowry Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:46:16 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3676#comment-10922 >Cut off their tails with a carving knife, that's what I say! >Cut off their tails with a carving knife, that's what I say!

]]> By: Kerry http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/#comment-10921 Kerry Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:15:02 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3676#comment-10921 >And what of Avi's Poppy? I think there is a very long heritage of mice stories that Kate joined. >And what of Avi's Poppy? I think there is a very long heritage of mice stories that Kate joined.

]]> By: Lolly http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/#comment-10920 Lolly Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:30:44 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3676#comment-10920 >What about Margery Sharp and all her Rescuers books (so much better than the films). >What about Margery Sharp and all her Rescuers books (so much better than the films).

]]> By: Joanna http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/#comment-10919 Joanna Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:38:01 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3676#comment-10919 >and I love "The Great American Mousical" by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton..I can take more mice. >and I love "The Great American Mousical" by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton..I can take more mice.

]]> By: Shoshana http://www.hbook.com/2011/04/blogs/read-roger/i-blame-kate-dicamillo/#comment-10918 Shoshana Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:51:19 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3676#comment-10918 >I blame Beverly Cleary a little, too. >I blame Beverly Cleary a little, too.

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