Archive for August, 2014

Subverting Impressionable Minds

Meg Rosoff defies categorization. You will find her books on the young adult shelf, but that doesn’t confine her writing to any one age group…

From Diapers to Driver’s Licenses

While speaking at Parnassus Books’ event “Wine with the Author”, Julie Danielson explained the three authors’ goal in writing Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature. Their idea was to dispel all ideas of sweet, easily dismissed, insignificant “kiddie lit” …

Death of the Monoculture

When I was a young reader we had one decision 1) hard copy book or 2) no book. If we wanted the book we had one more decision 1) library or 2) bookstore. Since then reading has fragmented: e-books, audible books, cd’s, amazon, overdrive, goodreads, and hard copies. Is this good or bad? Opinions fly. . .