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What a frankly fun writing!

Posted : Nov 07, 2011 07:38

Ms. Yingling

>It would be nice to have a "popular" blog, but only because I'm trying to do a good job covering as many books as I can. It's good to be reminded that "popular" is not something to which I really need to aspire as long as I am providing my students with a good over view of books that they might like to read!

Posted : Jan 25, 2008 08:10

readergirlz

>Oh, Roger, only one of us wears pointy shoes. I wear nicely rounded Converse. Very cheery pink ones. ;~)

Lorie Ann, ~readergirlz diva

Posted : Apr 07, 2007 04:43

Anonymous

>in re "charming" vs. "British" -- as the kids say: "Same difference."

Posted : Mar 24, 2007 06:02

Roger Sutton

>Naw, it wasn't "be charming." It was "be British."

Posted : Mar 23, 2007 08:35

Anonymous

>in re Elizabeth's comment on hb/Simmons clique: they also made publishers aware of their (the clique's) power. be "charming" or forfeit good reviews!

Posted : Mar 23, 2007 06:49

Roger Sutton

>Kelly, all that pink makes me grumpy ;-) And the "reading is cool 'n stuff! :-) :-)" tone. And the fact that they are focusing the club on their own books. But as publicity, it is complete genius, so hats off for that.

I've got an article coming up in the next Horn Book about my own experience as a teen reader, and it's part of the Insider/Outsider discussion, too. My high school clique would have sneered at something like Readergirlz because it would have threatened our definition of what a "real reader" was. One weapon the unpopular kids do have is snobbery--"I wouldn't be in your stupid readergirlz club if you begged me." But they didn't beg us--that was the problem.

Posted : Mar 23, 2007 03:04

Roger Sutton

>Yeah, Rinda, I see you just got spanked on child_lit. My sympathies. I'm not one of the cool kids there, either. I mean, I love the place and it's taught me a lot, but it has, perhaps inevitably, a certain clubbiness.

But the Insider/Outsider thing is as much about the individual as it is about the club--put me in an AA meeting and I still feel like an outsider (not in a glamorous way, but in the left-out way) even though I'm as much of a drunk as the rest of them. The lessons of seventh-grade are very hard to shake off, for both victims and ringleaders.

Posted : Mar 23, 2007 02:49

rindawriter

>Well, Roger, I'm grateful you've let this big mouth "outsider" just be herself on your blog...a welcome relief from the almost universal boredom of reading...ah....ah...ah...I better quit while I'm ahead...here...

Posted : Mar 23, 2007 02:36

Kelly

>Oh, come on Roger, readergirlz are great! I've been following their threads on MySpace and how they interact with their readers and it's really great. They get them talking about books, life, and community service. I'm going with idealists. And, if they get a bump in their careers, it will be well deserved.

Posted : Mar 22, 2007 10:05

Roger Sutton

>P.S. I'm already afraid of the Readergirlz. High-minded idealists or naked careerists? In my head they growl "BOTH," while attacking me with their Carrie Bradshaw pointy shoes. And putting me in their slam book.

Posted : Mar 22, 2007 07:06

Roger Sutton

>Those were the days, alright. We're still mopping up the blood.

Posted : Mar 22, 2007 06:33

Elizabeth

>I find your blog entry a little ironic, Roger, since the first professional clique I ever came across was the Horn Book/Simmons Crowd in the 70s and early 80s. It didn't matter how astute a critical thinker you were or how passionate about children's literature, if you didn't happen to charm Ethel, Paul, John and Jill (hmm, they sound like the Beatles), you weren't going to be "in" with the "in crowd," you weren't going to teach at Simmons or review at the Horn Book, and you weren't going to get invited to tea with major authors. My, it was rarified air they all breathed, and it sure helped you if you were British.

I don't speak from personal disappointment--I didn't even graduate from college until '83--but I saw them shutting others out. There are still a lot of cliques in the children's book business, but fortunately, in my opinion, it's a bigger tent now with room for a lot more people and more points of view.

Posted : Mar 22, 2007 06:27