Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
Remember the incredibly cute puppy in a sweater with snow on her nose, whose picture was part of Country magazine’s 2009 photo contest?
I wasn’t surprised to learn that that photo, by Robert Shoemaker, won the readers’ vote. It turns out that golden retriever’s name is Sadie.
The magazine’s announcement was accompanied by ten-year-old Morgan Shoemaker’s recent photo of her father and Sadie, taken only about a year after the first.
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
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