Parenthetical

My initial response to Meghan Cox Gurdon’s incendiary WSJ column is here, but it got crazy long and I decided this topic needed its own post. Ok, so there’s a lot of dark YA lit because teens want to read it — both the Literature and the popcorn. There’s also tons of light YA lit. [...]

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The ALA Youth Media Awards were announced yesterday, to the usual amount of fanfare. You can get a list of award winners just about anywhere, and lord knows the internet doesn’t need my commentary on every one. But I’d feel remiss as a YA lit blogger if I didn’t comment at least a bit. First [...]

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I got myself up at 7:45 to watch the ALA Youth Media Awards webcast. (Why do they do this so early, again?) I lost video at the announcement of the Printz winner, but fortunately I could still hear all of it. Congratulations to the middle grade & YA winners! (Here’s the complete list.) John Newbery [...]

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I wrote a whole long thoughtful review of Savvy a couple of days ago and thought it had posted happily — only to notice today that it actually crashed my whole blog and then got eaten by WordPress. Rar! I’m too cranky to re-write the whole thing or to be “fair and balanced,” so you’ll [...]

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The Arrival, Shaun Tan: I almost never say this, but you must all go find this book and “read” it now. (Is it reading if there are no words? Parse it? Consume it? Anyway…) My friend Alison of the Wellesley Booksmith showed this off at a teachers-and-librarians event last fall, and I’ve been longing to [...]

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