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>The latest issue of Notes from the Horn Book has just been published, with an interview with Kristin Cashore, reviews of new fantasy sequels, new chapter books, new picture-book biographies of artists, and new books about autumn. New! New! New!...
Umbrella Summerby Lisa GraffIntermediate Geringer/HarperCollins 236 pp.6/09 978-0-06-143187-6 $15.99Library ed. 978-0-06-143188-3 $16.89With the same deftness she demonstrated in The Thing About Georgie (rev. 3/07), Graff immediately engages the reader with the main character. Here’s Annie Richards, about to ride her bike to the local drug store....
If I Stay by Gayle FormanHigh School 199 pp. Dutton4/09 978-0-525-42103-0 $16.99What begins as the gift of a rare snow day in Portland, Oregon, turns suddenly into nightmare. Seventeen-year-old Mia drives off with her family on the unexpected holiday. A sudden explosion of metal, and Mia is looking at her...
>Mainly because I could, last night I downloaded the Lord of the Rings to my Baby-Touch-Me iPod. Fourteen bucks from Amazon's Kindle store, not bad.I'm all for ebooks and read them a lot, but I wonder if the format will encourage the kind of devotion to a text that my...
>Our designer Lolly Robinson was spending a choir rehearsal break sitting in a Plymouth coffee shop and re-reading Shaun Tan's The Arrival, only to emerge and see this:Lolly emailed me, "It made me wonder what other experiences like this people have had while still in the thrall of a children's...
>If these are the questions I don't want to see the answers....
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