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(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Rowling has suggested that someday she may return to the world o’ Potteria. She certainly leaves that door open with this book, and I’m okay with that. If it means following the adventures of Albus Severus Potter (are the initials "ASP" a parseltongue coincidence?) then I’m happy to do so. I […]
No Talking By Andrew Clements. Simon and Schuster. $15.99. For ages 9-12. Not all Andrew Clements novels are created equal, and that’s a fact. I mean, don’t get me wrong. This is true of most children’s authors. But sometimes I feel that with Clements, he’s always readable. Even if you feel that one book of […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Notes on the Cover: It’s interesting to me that even as Simon & Schuster has started to change their paperback covers of books like Frindle from the Selznick image to a new one, newer Clements books like “No Talking” are looking mighty similar to Clements’ earlier Selznickian works. This one plays […]
Mouse Guard: Vol. 1 – Fall 1152 by David Petersen. ASP Comics. $24.95. The quest to locate child-friendly graphic novels is amusingly difficult. You wouldn’t think finding quality comics would be so hard. The public perception is that comics are just made for kids anyway, so shouldn’t this lead to an abundance of riches? Hardly. […]
Strong Man by Meghan McCarthy. Knopf Books for Young Readers (a Random House imprint). $15.99. Though artist/illustrator Meghan McCarthy possesses many skills, there is one in particular that I feel eclipses the lot. My thinking is that anyone can write, anyone can draw, and anyone can put the two together. But when it comes to […]
Atherton: The House of Power by Patrick Carman. Little Brown & Company. $16.99. Aw yeah. Here it comes. It’s the book that had the ad that breathed down my neck for more than a week. The book that everyone and their mother swore they wouldn’t read because of said ad. But y’know, I read the […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Also, I love a book that takes place in the future that doesn’t happen a measly 10 or 15 years from now. There’s nothing that gets my goat more than the words 2015 and a view of Earth decayed and crumbling. This story takes place inn 2105. Thumbs up all around […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART TWO) Notes on the Cover: Well, it’s the half-cover problem. I can understand the desire to do something cool and different with the cover of a children’s book. Why should publishers be forced to do the same thing over and over when you can create something like the image here? The cover […]
Click: One Novel, Ten Authors by Linda Sue Park and others. Arthur A. Levine (a Scholastic imprint). $16.99. A short story collection? Nothing in those three little words makes my heart beat any faster. Been there. Read that. Okay, so how about a short story collection involving big names like Linda Sue Park, Nick Hornby, […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) Notes on the Cover: Wow. If this is the new cover for the book, I’m torn. I’d only seen the cover slapped on the ARCs until now and I was going to have this rip-roaring view of what was beautiful but wrong with it. Then I see that Amazon.com is displaying […]