Oz and Ends

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.

Showing posts with label AUTHOR Jacqueline Davies. Show all posts

Showing posts with label AUTHOR Jacqueline Davies. Show all posts

02 April 2011

Justice Squeezes Slow, But It Squeezes Exceeding Tight

Back in 2007, I did the math on Jacqueline Davies ’s The Lemonade War , and found that the young character who came out best by far in that...

15 September 2009

Boston 1775 Highlights Tricking the Tallyman

Yesterday at Boston 1775 I wrote about Tricking the Tallyman , a recent story about the first US census written by Jacqueline Davies and i...

01 June 2007

Cost of The Lemonade War

Jacqueline Davies’s The Lemonade War is, I thought, a surprisingly dark book. Not that it’s truly dark in the “edgy” sense. But in a middle...

22 May 2007

"New England Voices" Tonight at Boston College

Tonight I have the honor of moderating "New England Voices," a public event for the Foundation for Children's Books featuring...

29 April 2007

Getting the Details Right

Yesterday I attended a signing by Jacqueline Davies for her new middle-grade novel, The Lemonade War . Some other writing-group friends and ...

07 June 2006

The Night Is Singing too quietly?

Fantasy literature depends on children's imaginations, but sometimes that imagination can be too energetic--it can make a young child an...

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