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Monday, July 30, 2012

The Winner's Circle: Shen of the Sea, by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (1926)

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Few Newbery-winning authors are as obscure as Arthur Bowie Chrisman, possibly because few winners of the prize had literary careers that w...
Friday, July 27, 2012

2013 Contenders: Temple Grandin, by Sy Montgomery

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Temple Grandin is a fascinating woman. As Sy Montgomery points out, she is the only person to have been honored by both PETA and the Meat In...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

2013 Contenders: Postcards from Pismo, by Michael Scotto

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Almost as long as there have been novels, there have been epistolary novels. It's a form that's been used by everyone from Samuel ...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

2013 Contenders: In a Glass Grimmly, by Adam Gidwitz

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" We would tend to favor the grand, flawed effort over the exquisitely crafted miniature." -Michael Cunningham, "Letter from ...
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Friday, July 20, 2012

2013 Contenders: Prairie Evers, by Ellen Airgood

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Sometimes, the differences between a book we enjoy and one that we don't can be so subtle that they're hard to identify. We know w...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Bloggers Behaving Badly

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 What is up with the book blogging world lately? Just this week, we have: 1. Stop the Goodreads Bullies. I post that link with a conflict...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Winner's Circle: The Cat Who Went to Heaven, by Elizabeth Coatsworth (1931)

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In the 1920s and '30s, American literature went through a period of fascination with east Asia. The most prominent author of this tren...