>I don’t envy Lois Lowry her BoB choice between Kingdom on the Waves and The Hunger Games. According to SLJ’s poll, public opinion is hardly divided: ol’ Octavian has eleven votes while Katnip has 157 and is the top vote getter by far in the pool of sixteen. I’d go with Kingdom (to short-title a [...]
>I didn’t see this coming.
April 20, 2009 By 16 Comments
>Round 2 of the BoB has begun, with Tim Wynne Jones choosing Kingdom on the Waves over Trouble Begins at Eight. The judges do not have all appeared to get my memo: in this round it was supposed to be Kingdom v. Graveyard Book, Chains v. Tender Morsels, Frankie Landau-Banks v. Hunger Games and Graceling [...]
>Reading Fun with Goofus and Gallant
April 13, 2009 By 7 Comments
>She has a really good point.
March 31, 2009 By 6 Comments
>I like Jill Wolfson’s dissent about SLJ’s upcoming Battle of the Books, for which I am the Decider between Ways to Live Forever and Octavian Nothing II. Jill is right–the BOB provides more publicity for books which have already received plenty, and as a series of apples-and-oranges decisions, it doesn’t have a whole lot of [...]
>No, I have not twatted,
March 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
>Put It Where You Want It
February 9, 2009 By 12 Comments
>Debra Lau Whelan’s SLJ article on where librarians are shelving The Graveyard Book is classic shit-stirring. The article’s lead asks a question (“Where does the book belong—in the children’s area or in the teen section?”) and then goes on to give selective anecdotal evidence to conclude that any decision to put the book in YA [...]
>Cast your vote for the future
September 30, 2008 By 2 Comments
>over at Nina Lindsay and SLJ’s new mock-Newbery blog, “Heavy Medal.” Lots of titles are being suggested, including the two BGHB Honor Books Savvy and Shooting the Moon. I’ll be meeting authors Ingrid Law and Frances O’Roark Dowell this Friday at the BGHB Awards, held as usual in the swank confines of the Boston Athenaeum. [...]
>Merry Christmas Darlings
December 24, 2007 By 5 Comments
>Hey, I finally made it. I hope everyone gets some nice uninterrupted recreational reading time over the holidays. I’ve started my own off with The Exception by Christian Jungersen (Talese/Doubleday), a hugely engrossing mystery/thriller/black comedy (I think) about the employees of a Danish genocide documentation center. The women who work there have been receiving threatening [...]
>Bounced Back
June 19, 2007 By 7 Comments
