Tag: debut novels

August 31, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: And I’m floating in a most peculiar way

With the publication of Selnick’s Wonderstruck this first link seems appropriate*. Would-be children’s book illustrators take note. If you’ve never done a book for kids and you want to get noticed, why not take your favorite David Bowie song and make it child-appropriate? To the best of my knowledge Andrew Kolb has never done a […]

April 15, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Review of the Day: Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis

Kat, Incorrigible By Stephanie Burgis Atheneum (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) $16.99 ISBN: 9781416994473 Ages 9-12 On shelves now Early nineteenth-century child and teen novels written with an equal influence of Jane Austen and Diana Wynne Jones are nothing new. Indeed they’ve been around for quite some time. They’re your Sorcery and Cecelia by […]