Sweet Valley Lowdown
posted by Roger Sutton at 2:53 PM
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
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- Name: Roger Sutton
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
I've been the editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc, since 1996; previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. Received my M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a B.A. from Pitzer College in 1978.
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5 Comments:
Umm, yeah, that's exactly what I got out of the one Sweet Valley High book I read as a young person (on the theory that you had to have read one in order to have an opinion). Thankfully they're pretty short.
Excuse me while I rush to the bathroom and empty myself of the Pascal comment. In fact of the entire article. I may be a while.
Jane
Francine Pascal fails to mention the most important value readers picked up from the Sweet Valley High Books -- shopping!
The description of Alloy sounds a lot like the old Stratemeyer Syndicate from days of yore.
My favorite quote from the article:
>>>When authors are brought in to write their own books...<<<
At the moment I find that really funny - that it's presented as only ONE of their options for producing books - but am sure at some point, it's going to cause me to wake up screaming.
Evil. Eeeeeevil!
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