I hope you all took the time to notice the magnificent One Shot World Tour: City Living conducted by any number of our best bloggers in the biz. I had every intention of participating and then lost my head. Fortunately there are folks out there far more reliable than myself for this kind of thing. From historical London to alternate London, from trees in Brooklyn to blackouts there, this thing was awesome. Chasing Ray has the round-up. Enjoy.
- Well sir, the National Book Award was announced two days ago. Once again a children’s book rather than a teen novel won. Interestingly, that book was not Gary Schmidt’s fabulous Okay for Now but the rather awesome in its own right Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai(a title that to my mind win’s The 2011 When You Reach Me Award for Most Difficult Title to Remember). Of course, Leila Roy called what would happen when someone won. Doggone it.
- Ah, Nancy Drew. Folks just can’t stop talking about you, can they? If they’re not speculating about what might be playing on your iPod then they’re sending you back in time to the Salem Witch Trials. Buck up, kid. It could be worse. You could be Cherry Ames.
- Re: Racism and colonialism in Pippi Longstocking, what she said.
- Fun Fact: The American Folklore Society has an award. It’s called The Aesop Prize and it’s awarded by the Children’s Folklore Section of the society. This year the award went to Trickster: Native American Tales – A Graphic Collection, which I agree was extraordinary. So naturally I was curious about what the previous winners had been. Amusingly in 2010 the award went to Joha Makes a Wish by Eric A. Kimmel. In 2009 it went to Dance, Nana, Dance (Baila, Nana, Baila) by Joe Hayes, and in 2008 it was Ain’t Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Reynolds Nelson. You can see the full list, and the many honorable mentions, here if you’re curious. For that matter, if you’ve a children’s work of folklore published in 2011 or 2012 and you want it to be considered for this prize, check out the Prize Review Criteria.
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