It’s always super exciting to get an advance copy of your book. Until then, most of the work of the book has been electronic. I might print some things out, but a printed-out book manuscript looks a lot like a term paper assigned by a syllabus (that is, nothing...
This post should have been written months ago. For months I’ve been thinking about how much I love Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows, about how consistently hilarious all the books are, and about how Sophie Blackall could illustrate anything and I’d love it...
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier Oh my god oh my god oh my god! This book has made me into such a teenager, gushing with emotion and completely inarticulate in wonder. And not, mind you, because it’s a teenybopper fantasy of any kind, but more...
Cabin on Trouble Creek by Jean Van Leeuwen I have no idea how I stumbled upon this book…somewhere I saw a description of the plot and something about it being nonstop action (and since we’ve read a few too many no-action dreary books lately, it seemed...
Paddle to the Sea by Holling Clancy Holling Do you remember this book? Paddle to the Sea is seared onto my memory from childhood, mostly from watching the movie version of it in the Tenafly Public Library, probably in 1977 (Kate, were you with me?). So I was greatly...
