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Due to the frustrating nature of the McSweeneys website, I can't directly link you to the article I'd like you to see. In any case go here and scroll down to the following:
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF BABYBUG, A MAGAZINE FOR READERS AGE 6 MONTHS TO 2 YEARS.
It probably says something about me that this letter was my favorite:
Dear Editor:
Maybe it's just these postmodern times, but I finished your April story on gardens with a painful sense of reader's whiplash. Was it fiction or nonfiction? Your table of contents and editor's note did little to resolve this question, and the story itself was frustratingly self-obfuscating. One moment the reader is getting helpful advice on seed planting and the next a young boy is speaking with a bunny that's wearing an ascot. Please don't throw us so violently down the rabbit hole (pun intended!) again.
Kevin Oberlin
Age 11 months
Missoula, Montana
Thanks to
Adam Rex for the link.
Just heard about this one in an update of Cynopsis Kids. Note:
Bestselling author Nick Hornby is writing his first young adult novel, for his longtime publisher Penguin. Slam , about a boy who survives a teenage crush by hashing out the pangs of love with his idol Tony Hawk (or at least a one-dimensional version of the star, via a poster), will be released by the Penguin Young Readers Group in October, through its G.P.Putnam's Sons imprint. Riverhead (which regularly publishes Hornby's adult fiction) and Penguin Young Readers will follow, in 2008, with simultaneous paperback editions.
I think this is a good idea. Normally the idea of authors crossing over to write for the younger set puts my teeth on edge, but I think that this might work. I just think Hornby should shoot even lower agewise. Sure, he contributed a short story for
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures From the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out but he's never really delved into kidlit fully. I say the time is ripe. Go, Nick, go!
Ah, that's good! And here's the direct link:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/6/6depp.html
Awesome. Sheer awesome.
Considering that the articles in Baby Bug are 2 to 4 pages long, that's a humongous critique. from the 11 month old's mom/ caretaker/ nanny/ whathaveyou.
That cracks me up. Thanks.
This selection was my favorite part of the letters:
My only complaint—and it's a small one—is with your staple-free design, which I feel implies a certain lack of faith in your readers.