By: tanita✿davis,
on 10/24/2014
The one and only Floating Head of Shannon Hale! It rocks! It talks! It silences its viewers! I didn't take as many notes as I should have, when author Shannon Hale "visited" KidLitCon on our second day. Mainly because I was on edge, hoping against... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita✿davis,
on 9/24/2014
The prequel you didn't know you needed to Bruchac's epic KILLER OF ENEMIES:This novella prequel to Joseph Bruchac’s Killer of Enemies is set in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where readers are introduced to seventeen-year-old Rose Eagle of the... Read the rest of this post
By: tanita davis,
on 9/7/2012
I first heard of this at Charlotte's blog. Then I hustled over to BookLust and snagged a logo button. I am SO in. Speculative fiction by diverse authors and featuring a diverse cast of characters are on the rise. Every time I see a heads-up about a... Read the rest of this post
By: aquafortis,
on 7/16/2012
Jacky Faber is exactly the kind of character my childhood self would have adored. As it is, my adult self is gobbling up her stories with a jumbo spoon. I listened to the audiobook version of the first book in the series, Bloody Jack, narrated both... Read the rest of this post
By: aquafortis,
on 7/5/2012
Our occasional co-blogger CitySmartGirl tipped us off to a fascinating NY Times article on reimagining the covers of some literary classics to make them more appealing to teen readers. The reception, as you might imagine, has been mixed. The... Read the rest of this post
Tomorrow is National Buy a Book Day--I'm going to challege myself, and any others who care to join me, to head to a bookstore and a buy a book with a brown (or other non-white type of person) on the cover...If enough people buy them, there will be more of them....
Good point. I've also noticed a bit of a trend for authors who are trying to appeal to a wide audience to be vague about their characters of color in terms of physical appearance...which, I guess is better than populating a world with nothing but blue eyes and blonde hair, but to me it feels like a lukewarm response to the problem.
I'll have to go read these links in more detail, but on first glance I just wanted to say YAY and AWESOME. I wholeheartedly approve. :)
I'm in the middle of Coe's post (excellent of course as Coe usually is). Two semesters ago, we had a long discussion at school about this topic.