31 July 2010

Summer Reading—Or Not

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And speaking of M. T. Anderson , last weekend I had the following exchange. Me, tapping a copy of Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware...
30 July 2010

Hearing Voices

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From Lee Wind’s interview with M. T. Anderson : In writing middle grade, I imagine the voice going TOWARDS the reader. In YA and adult, I i...
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28 July 2010

An Impossible Thing Before Modernity

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Earlier this month Fuse #8 aired this issue : There was an interesting discussion on the child_lit listserv that I think is worth mentioning...
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27 July 2010

Working Through the Horowitz Family Lore

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Back when I read the first Alex Rider book by Anthony Horowitz , I disliked the snobbery and xenophobia built into it . Those qualities may...
26 July 2010

Equal Work for Lower Billing?

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Back in March, Snow Wildsmith reviewed the first Max Finder Mystery collection of middle-grade mysteries in comics form with this praise: ...
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25 July 2010

Buy This Magazine or We’ll Kill This Robin

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In early 1988, Batman magazines editor Dennis O’Neil faced two novel challenges. First, he’d proposed that DC Comics set up and publicize ...
24 July 2010

“We’re rubbish, even though we are as gods.”

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Super scripter Alan Moore had stuff to say about superheroes in a recent Quietus interview published in The Stool Pigeon : In the past I’v...
23 July 2010

More Bartimaeus? Too Much Bartimaeus?

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I saw Publishers Weekly reporting that Jonathan Stroud has two new Bartimaeus books on the way. I loved reading the Bartimaeus trilogy , ...
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21 July 2010

She’s a Guitarist, Fer Sure!

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A while back , I wrote about how Janice, the guitar player in Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, had been turned into a tambourine player in...
20 July 2010

Why, Yes, I Am Looking Forward to One Summer Movie

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But tomorrow I have to finish the reading first .