26 February 2013

Over at "From JA to YA"........

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........I am comparing board book adaptations of Pride and Prejudice. It is not a format which seems immediately obvious for Austen adapt...
12 February 2013

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

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The landscape of this book is probably (hopefully!) unrecognizable to anyone who reads it: a brutal, bleak, totalitarian society in which...
02 October 2012

Banned Books Week: Tintin in the Congo

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Not only do I read banned books, but I buy them as well. Let me start with a story. At the end of August, on my final evening of a lovel...
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24 September 2012

Best big word in a picture book

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That honor, at least this week, will have to go to " malfeasance ", from Ian Falconer's Olivia and the Fairy Princesses . As i...
18 September 2012

Bring on the 2012 Cybils!

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I'm excited and honored to once again be participating in the Children's and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards (but known as ...
13 September 2012

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

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My review of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken is today's Retro Review over at the Nerdy Book Club . Check it out!
12 September 2012

Appropos of nothing

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So....who watched Saturday's new Doctor Who episode ? I did. And I immediately thought of every one's favorite Time Lord when this a...
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16 June 2012

Over at "From JA to YA............"

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.........I'm taking at a look at The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love by Rosie Rushton, the first book in her Jane Austen in the...
16 May 2012

Over at "From JA to YA".......

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........I'm taking a look at the PBS series Wishbone and their riff on Pride and Prejudice , "Furst Impressions."
08 May 2012

Over at "From JA to YA"......

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.........I am examining For Darkness Shows the Stars , by Diana Peterfreund. Set for a June 2012 release, the novel is an original and suc...