By: David Elzey,
on 1/9/2008
Benny and Penny in Just Pretend by Geoffrey Hayes Otto's Orange Day written by Jay Lynch illustrated by Frank Cammuso Toon Books/RAW Junior 2007 In a word: Disappointing. The first releases in a new imprint from he editorial team of Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman are probably best described as comic books packaged as graphic novels for the younger set. If they didn't have such a high
By: Eric Luper,
on 4/28/2007
The winners of the 2006 L.A. Times Book Awards were announced last night. They went though all of this boring stuff before they got to the young adult winner. In fact, young adult was the absolute last category listed. That blows. I mean isn't YA lit more important that Biography or Current Events? Okay, maybe I'm biased. Anyway, here were the finalists:
Young Adult Fiction:
M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party (Candlewick Press)
Coe Booth, Tyrell (Push / Scholastic)
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (Dutton Books / Penguin Young Readers Group)
Meg Rosoff, Just in Case (Wendy Lamb Books / Random House Children's Books)
Nancy Werlin, The Rules of Survival (Dial Books / Penguin Young Readers Group)
And the winner is........
COE BOOTH for Tyrell. I don't know Ms. Booth, but I do know Lisa Graff, author of The Thing About Georgie (here's my blog review) and one of the other Longstocking authors. This bunch of female blogging MG/YA writers has found tons of success these past few years. You can read all about their thoughts, ideas, and accomplishments here. This is one of the blogs I follow and I enjoy it a whole heck of a lot.
Congratulations Ms. Booth (may I call you Coe?) and all of the other fabulous authors who were recognized!
