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Jules: Eisha, holy guacamole! One of our favorite children’s book creators is here today, Jarrett J. Krosoczka. And it’s for such a very fun reason. He is going to tell us the story behind how he came to write his new graphic novel series, debuting this summer from Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, called Lunch Lady.
In Book 1, Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute (to be published at the end of this month), we find out that Lunch Lady, bedecked in her yellow suction-cupped rubber gloves, fights crime — but secretly so. The Breakfast Bunch at Thompson Brook School—Hector, Dee, and Terrence—do wonder what she does when she’s not a lunch lady and dishing out shepherd’s pie (”I bet she has a like a hundred cats!” Dee says). But little do they know she’s got the backs of the students, meeting up with Betty (her sidekick and herself a lunch lady) in the Boiler Room, to keep an eye on the school and any, ahem, robot substitutes who might be planning very evil plots. Well, little do they know until they decide to follow her one afternoon; Hector, after all, does wonder aloud one day if perhaps she’s “some sort of super secret-agent spy or something.”
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“Parade is over. Time for bed.”
– from Karen Roosa’s Pippa at the Parade
Jules: I know it’s a bright Sunday morning, a new day, and not time to climb back into our beds, but I can’t help but open with this image, because I love the colors so much I just might want to marry them.
This comes from illustrator Julie Fortenberry. Julie has two blogs—one devoted solely to her art and one all about picture book illustration. And here’s the thing: I’ve always loved her children’s illustration blog, but I never quite made the connection that it was Julie Fortenberry who authored it. Sometimes I’m slow-on-the-draw like that.
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Your average, run-of-the-mill diet won’t work for witches, you know…
From the “Special Advertising Section” of Adam Rex’s Frankenstein Takes the Cake
Jules: Excuse the decidedly uncreative post title. Not enough coffee yet. You think I’m joking with my severely cheesy “Instant Human: Just Add Coffee” mug? I’m not.
I’m happy to be joined today by Kelly Fineman of Writing and Ruminating in discussing the new monstrous poetry anthology from Adam Rex, Frankenstein Takes the Cake (Which is Full of Funny Stuff Like Rotting Heads and Giant Gorillas and Zombies Dressed as Little Girls and Edgar Allan Poe. The Book, We Mean — Not the Cake), the sequel to 2006’s Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich (And Other Stories You’re Sure to Like, Because They’re All About Monsters, And Some of Them Are Also About Food. You Like Food, Don’t You? Well, All Right Then) — both books published by Harcourt. (And how much do you love those titles, Jules? you ask. A whole heapin’ lot.) As I noted a few weeks ago here at 7-Imp, if you haven’t read that prequel, well there’s a hole in your life too big and awkward for us to even address. But Kelly has joined me today to talk about the new poetry anthology, so let’s get right to it…
This, by the way, is also posted over at Guys Lit Wire today if you’re so inclined to read it over there. But this post here includes pretty much sorta the same content and same images, so you get to take your pick.
Also: This may be the first and only time you’ll read the words “Adam Rex” and “The View” in the same sentence. I could have never predicted that.
Also: Adam Rex is a superspy.
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How lucky am I? I convinced Adrienne of What Adrienne Thinks About That to do another co-review with me, and I also talked Little Willow of Bildungsroman into joining the fray. And we’re talking about Generation Dead by Daniel Waters, which is all about teenage zombies. How perfect, since we’re all so into supernatural YA fiction, right? Well… read on.
First, though, let me tell you a little about the plot: For no reason that scientists can determine, American teenagers have started coming back from the dead. They can walk and talk, but they don’t eat, breathe, or sleep. Since they’re obviously a little creepy, and there aren’t any laws in place to protect the recently-deceased, they face a lot of problems with discrimination, ridicule, and even violence when they try to go about their un-lives. Quite a few of them have started attending Oakvale High, because it has a reputation of being tolerant toward the Living Impaired. Goth-girl Phoebe is intrigued by the phenomenon, especially because one of her former best friends has become a zombie, and there are some painful unresolved issues between them. She’s also intrigued by the attractive Tommy Williams, who seems to function better than most of the zombies and has even joined the football team. Phoebe’s nice-jock friend Adam is less interested, because he’s recently realized that he wants more than friendship with Phoebe and is less than thrilled by having a dead guy as competition. Nevertheless, he agrees to join her in a new discussion group/work study program created by the Hunter Foundation to foster greater understanding between zombies and the living.
We avoided major spoilers here, so you should be safe. Also, this is cross-posted at Bildungsroman and WATAT, for your tripled enjoyment. Read on!
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eisha: So, ladies. I’ll start off by saying that I liked this book. It has an interesting and original take on zombie-ism, and I thought the way Waters used it to convey ideas about prejudice, hate crimes, social law, and societal reform was pretty cool. Also, I think this is one of my favorite covers of 2008.
However, I didn’t love the book. There were some significant flaws in the writing, and in the plot, that kept me from fully immersing myself in the story.
Did I mention how much I love the cover?
How about you, Little Willow? What’s your overall impression?
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Seriously, people, do not even look below this line if you haven’t read the books but think you might someday. Spoilers abound, and we make no apology for it. How could we have a proper debate otherwise? Right? Anyway.
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Since my abduction into the Twilight cult a couple of months ago by my friend Dana Koster, I have frequently commented here on the way this series of books has taken over my life. I know I’m not alone. As Dana put it at her blog, there’s something about “the characters and the intensity of the relationships between them” that makes for very compelling reading. Compelling in the same way that, say, crack is compelling to some people.
The particular relationship that elicits our obsession the most would have to be the complicated love triangle that has formed between our mortal heroine Bella, her vampire boyfriend Edward, and her werewolf best friend Jacob. When last we saw them [SEE, SPOILERS STARTING ALREADY. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, TWILIGHT VIRGINS], at the end of Eclipse, Bella and Edward were engaged, with Bella having convinced him to turn her vampy after the honeymoon. Jacob, having confessed his love MANY TIMES and been ultimately, but sorrowfully, spurned by a very conflicted Bella, was wolfing it off into the hills, contemplating a future gone feral.
The fourth, and (sorta maybe) final book of the series, Breaking Dawn, is due to be released in a very few days. Dana and I have already reserved our copies for the local big chain bookstore’s release party* (look, she even found thematically appropriate earrings!) and are looking forward to devouring it next weekend, and then finally getting our lives back. But in the meantime, we keep getting into discussions (arguments) about what we want to happen in BD and which man (ahem) Bella should end up with - she’s firmly in Jacob’s camp, while I’m an Edward girl. Since the second edition of Eclipse comes with iron-ons so that readers can publicly declare their loyalty to Team Edward or Team Jacob, we obviously aren’t the only ones discussing (obsessing over) this issue. I mean, look at the response Robin got when she asked about it. So, I suggested we bring it to the blog in the form of a public debate, and see what happens.
(*Apologies, but I tried to reserve it at the local indie and they didn’t seem to understand that I needed it precisely at midnight on its official release date. I ordered something less urgent from them to atone, okay?)
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eisha (representing Team Edward): It seems almost superfluous for me to even have to state a position here, since Team Edward is SO OBVIOUSLY GOING TO WIN. I mean, hello, did you read New Moon? Bella CANNOT live without Edward. It has been scientifically proven, what with all her abdominal pain and needing to fall off motorcycles and cliffs to hear his disembodied voice in her head and all. It would be the highest of follies for Meyer to put us through reading about what losing Edward does to Bella, and then make us go through it again. Will not happen.
dana (representing Team Jacob): But that’s exactly the point! Love isn’t supposed to kill you and leave you broken, it’s supposed to raise you up and make you happy and not, you know, crush your identity. True Love is great and all, but is it really True Love when your boyfriend won’t let you see your friends? I mean, controlling much? At least with Jacob, Bella has an identity. She’s hurt, but she’s her own person. She has her own interests, she can see who she wants - she’s not a tiny moon orbiting Planet Edward, she’s just… her.
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Check it out, ya’ll: we’ve got Sara Zarr in da house. That’s right, National Book Award finalist, Cybils nominee, generally kick-ass writer for young adults, Sara Zarr.
She first hit the scene with Story of a Girl, which won rave reviews and landed her in the NBA nominee camp for its gritty, funny, touching, and - yeah, why not? - inspiring depiction of a girl who makes a really bad decision and has to figure out how to live with the ugly consequences. But unlike a lot of teen novels, in this case the consequences of having sex at 13 with the wrong boy aren’t tangible (pregnancy, STD) - instead, Deanna has to deal with becoming a legendary “slut” in her small town, falling from her father’s favor, and wondering if she’ll ever be asked on a normal date by a nice boy. As School Library Journal said in a starred review, “This is realistic fiction at its best. Zarr’s storytelling is excellent; Deanna’s reactions to the painful things said to her will resonate with any reader who has felt like an outsider.”
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By: Kirsty,
on 2/29/2008
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Here’s another UK edition of Link Love, with your host, Kirsty. Coming up this week: staircases, weird book titles, singing prisoners, comic book Shakespeare, forged biographies, graphology, and bunnies. Don’t say I’m not good to you.
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In the Comments Section a few posts ago, Little Chin Burger asked: "But it got me to wondering, you create such a high volume of illustrations, as do Ted and Wes...how in the world do you guys keep track of all these works and how do you file them so you can keep track of them? I'm am curious to know."
Stacy's response:
I have a few methods of storage....
I store my screenprinted posters,
This is how I store my yarn now. It used to be in bags, plastic storage bins in the closet, a cedar chest, or just milling about in cute baskets for that "cozy cottage" look.
Well, that wasn't working. Because when you want to do a project, you have to be able to see what you have, and have it all right there, available, easy to grab.
So. I went to IKEA. After I had my Swedish meatballs and coffee, I started to meander. First I looked at all the nice office and studio furniture, the stylish but too heavy and hard-to-put-together things with drawers. After much thinking, looking, standing back and trying to decide-ing, I finally made it downstairs to the laundry room and closet organizer department. And there it was. My answer.
These units are a lightweight metal frame with removable wire mesh sliding basket "drawers". They come in a 6-drawer height, and a 4-drawer height, and you can put them together in any combination. I made two 10 drawer high pieces. (Actually, first, I just bought one 6 drawer thing. Got it home, put it together, and figured out real fast it wasn't enough, so went back the next day for the rest.)
There's also a little flat wood piece for the top which makes a kind of lid on the whole thing, which you need (and which are where all my stuffed animals now live, who all got cut off in the picture.)
This is a practical, inexpensive and easy to put together solution. And its on wheels! We love things on wheels. You could 'cute it up' by making a curtain to go around it if you're of that persuasion, or just stuff them into a closet. You could stash piles of papers, art supplies, individual projects, whatever.
And if you go to IKEA you know you'll find some other thing you didn't know you needed but there it was and it was so cheap you had to have it, and that's fun too.
from home & country June 2006 - I love everything about this page, the blue, the ceramics, the antique sewing machine and of course the whole nook aspect of it.I feel bad I haven't posted in a long time. I'm not sure why, I'm still doing lots of sewing and knitting, and I've been sneaking lots of new things into my etsy shop. But I was thinking it might be because lately I've been obsessed with fixing up our home. You know when you reach the point where you have to apologize a little bit? You say things like: "Is it ok if I just tell you my idea for those chairs? Just quickly..."
In the last year we've replaced the light in our kitchen from a horrible flourescent fixture to a charming schoolhouse light. We also replaced the ugly living room light and added a lamp in a formerly gloomy corner of the room. And we finally hired a plumber to remove the sink we had in the living room - I guess it was a kind of bar area, but it's in an alcove and I was using it as a closet. Lots of wasted storage there! We still need to add matching hardwood flooring to the place where the cabinet used to be, but the hardest part was getting rid of the sink so thank goodness that's done.
from Country Living March 2007 - I had to get this great issue which has interviews with several women entrepreneurs that are so inspiring, including a peak into Amy Butler's studio! (this isn't it). I love this craft's room - so airy but still full of goodies (you can click on the picture to see it larger)
I've painted more things than I care to list, including shelves, doors, walls and boxes. Incidentally I discovered the secret to painting slatted bifold doors. This is it: a small brush. I mean really small, like an artist's brush, and you just take your time (preferably with a movie on in the background) and paint. The big brush may seem faster, but trying to get into all those corners by waggling the brush (and pretty much ruining it) isn't worth it. I've tried both methods and the little brush was downright relaxing. It took around an hour per coat but it didn't stress me out and there aren't any drip marks either. Then I added a pretty glass doorknob.
I've sorted, rearranged and gotten rid of things. I've moved furniture, put things in our new storage space (for three years I didn't even know there were any in the building!!) and bought new furniture. The best pieces were an IKEA table that folds down to about 12 inches wide, but is perfect for dining for two or working on when one leaf is up, and can seat six when both leaves are up. And of course my beautiful secretary desk that is everything I hoped it would be.
from Blueprint March/April 2007 - An incredible small space makeover - that's why I had to get this issue, the apartment is even smaller than my place at 307 square feet! This is where I got the idea for the shelving I'll be doing.
So what's next? Well I wanted another secretary desk but this one would be for my crafts things. But that seemed greedy. And as my always patient friend Jaimie (who luckily is also obsessed with home-making at the moment) mentioned might draw the limelight away from the one I just bought. So using a plain desk I already have I'm planning to create another miniature studio - but this time for crafts. And the pictures in this post are all my inspirations derived from my magazine addiction (but that's another story).
Of course I'll be showing the reveal in my next post!
Jules: Eisha, holy guacamole! One of our favorite children’s book creators is here today, Jarrett J. Krosoczka. And it’s for such a very fun reason. He is going to tell us the story behind how he came to write his new graphic novel series, debuting this summer from Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, called Lunch Lady. 
These look cute. Kudos, Jarrett!
Oh, a sure, serious hit. These are hilarious looking! And how often can you swear, “Great Tuna!”?
Hey there Jules & Eisha–
Thank you so much for having me by! I love it here. Comfortable seats, great hosts…. And thank you for all of your kind words on the LUNCH LADY books. I’m so glad to hear that you dig them and can’t wait for everyone else to read them.
I forgot to mention one thing. (And Eisha, perhaps this will make you feel better about the depiction of librarians…) The 3rd LL book is called LUNCH LADY AND THE AUTHOR VISIT VENDETTA. It’s about a an evil children’s book author who comes to visit the school. That will be out on Dec 22nd and if you think the librarians come off looking evil, wait until you see what I do with the authors…
Thanks again for having me by!
JJK
Fish stick nunchucks? Banana boomerangs? Oh doughnuts?! Food and humor? Sign me up!
Oh. Well, okay then. Thanks for the info, Jarrett.
And of course, thanks for stopping by, and for the general awesomeness.
Awww, I want to read these books. :o)
I just went to the website… There’s a Lunch Lady THEME SONG? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Can’t wait!
Our son, Isaiah, is going to EAT THESE UP! He’s a four year old who loves Captain Underpants… these seem to run along the same hilarious vein. Love the inclusion of some color, too.
I first saw the drawings on Jarrett’s wall. (Yes, he’s a neighbor. Isn’t everybody?) And laughed myself silly. This series is going to make everybody of any age laugh themselves silly. Holy tuna indeed! I’ll give you beets, young man!
Laugh all the way to the bank, dear Jarrett!
xxxAuntie Jane
Love the Ralph Macchio cameo in the photo of Jarrett.
He’s hilarious and you two are hilarious. That is all.
Oh, man — I fell in love with this as soon as I saw the images the other day… and I was looking at them on a phone, for crying out Tuna’s loud. Computer-screen-size, whoa!
(Also, what Robin said: sometimes the tag-team thing Jules & Eisha have going on just cracks, me, up.)
I’ve been dying to read these since I saw the covers in a catalog months and months ago. Now I have to double-triple-check that I ordered them.
And, you know, I think a little librarian evil isn’t bad. It keeps us mysterious.
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