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Transformers: What Fairy Tales Tell
I don’t retell fairy tales. They retell me. Over and over again they tell me who I am, how I feel, what I believe.This process of self-discovery happens every time I write a poem, but it seems to happen most acutely when I throw on Red Riding Hood’s cloak or...
Review of Crankee Doodle
Crankee Doodleby Tom Angleberger;
illus. by Cece BellPrimary Clarion 32 pp.6/13 978-0-547-81854-2 $16.99 gAs concepts for picture books go, it’s hard to think of one cleverer than this absurdist deconstruction of the familiar song. Depicted in spindly lined cartoons, Yankee Doodle and his pony debate their plans for the afternoon....
David Levithan on Every Day
From the November/December 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine:Reviewer Christine Hepperman asks author and editor David Levithan about writing gender (and the lack thereof) in his YA novel Every Day. Read the full review of Every Day here.Christine Hepperman: Were there specific challenges in writing a character who is...
Review of Every Day
Every Dayby David LevithanMiddle School, High School Knopf 325 pp.8/12 978-0-307-93188-7 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-375-97111-2 $19.99e-book ed. 978-0-307-97563-8 $10.99“A,” the narrator of Levithan’s brilliantly conceived novel, wakes up in a different sixteen-year-old’s body every morning and has to adjust to different physical characteristics, a different family, a different school, different friends....
Whitney and Me: Confessions of a Work-for-Hire Diva
I would call it a guilty pleasure if I felt guilty. But my subscription to People magazine actually liberates me. Instead of furtively flipping pages in the checkout line, hoping to find the photos of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s baby before it’s time to unload the hummus, I have Blue Ivy...
Review of Jangles: A Big Fish Story
Jangles: A Big Fish Storyby David Shannon;
illus. by the authorPrimary Blue Sky/Scholastic 32 pp.10/12 978-0-545-14312-7 $17.99 gShannon takes the one-that-got-away story and spins it out into a big-fish tall tale as recounted by a father to his son. Jangles, the legendary trout of Big Lake, had “broken so many...
Mini Grey on Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey
Beach-Time Brenda's next adventure?In the May/June 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, reviewer Christine Hepperman asks Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey author/illustrator Mini Grey about a new favorite character. Read the full review of Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey here.Christine M. Hepperman: Will Beach-Time Brenda reappear in...
Review of Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey
Traction Man and the Beach Odysseyby Mini Grey; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Knopf 32 pp.5/12 978-0-375-86952-5 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-375-96952-2 $19.99The adventuresome duo from Traction Man Is Here! (rev. 3/05) and Traction Man Meets Turbodog (rev. 9/08) hits the beach for a manly day of scuba diving, picnic security duty,...
Five Questions for Melissa Sweet
The first helium-filled creatures to bob through Manhattan on Thanksgiving morning were brought to being by master puppeteer Tony Sarg in the 1920s. Now master illustrator Melissa Sweet, a prolific artist and winner of a Caldecott Honor for A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen...
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