Five Questions for Clare Vanderpool

by Roger Sutton
Jul 03, 2011 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
 

With Clare, her being from Kansas and writing about Kansas and loving Kansas and all, I got to reminisce about Mike Printz, who ran an oral history project with his Topeka West High teens, documenting the lives of famous Kansans. (We did an SLJ article together called "E.T.'s Mom Phones Home," about how Mike's teens got Kansas actress Dee Wallace to come to their school.) But I was thrilled to hear that Clare's next book will be set in Maine, Vanderpool regarding Abilene's story as "finished" and laudably resisting the trend toward sequelization.

Her kids and husband were there, her sister was there, and, wow, is she poised. And, as she also demonstrated in her Newbery speech the next evening, very funny. Thanks for coming, Clare!
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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dkm

>YAY for Kansas authors! (being an aspiring one myself) And big congrats to Clare Vanderpool on the Newbery!

Posted : Jul 06, 2011 01:53

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