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Our authors John Green and Judy Blume pose for a picture together at TLA!
I can pretty much die after seeing this.
Myers’ books on the other hand, are painfully mundane, with simple moral lessons built into predictable situations: the projects, prison, redemption. Dostoyevsky (whom I despise - but that’s another post) of a darker shade. His stated goal is to make urban children think, but his books rarely have to make them think very deeply at all – they are about those kids’ own sad lives, and the sad lessons too many of them have already learned. To me, from the front of the classroom, those kids were, by and large, smarter than the books he wrote for them - if not, just yet, more sophisticated.
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- via The Daily News
Why why why why would anyone ever criticize anyone, let alone children, for wanting to read a book that they can relate to? Sure, I think Homer & Virgil have academic merits, but why is reading for pleasure a bad thing? Especially since starting with YA can be a gateway to: better vocabulary, reading comprehension and general love of reading.
I am happy my childhood educators and librarians encouraged me to read ALL kids of books, from Shakespeare to Francine Pascal. It opened my mind to new ideas, genres and helped me develop an imagination.
It is articles and critiques like this that make me sad. I’m sad this writer isn’t more open-minded. And even more, I’m really sad he’s lost his sense of wonder as an adult.
SwooOOoon!
“I felt that Darcy was vulnerable. He’d lost his parents, inherited this vast estate and had huge responsibilities. So I saw him as a young man trying to cope rather than someone who had a`sorted out´ life. He was quite arrogant at times, but that kind of arrogance comes from insecurity. And he looks at Elizabeth, with her easy way with people and her closeness to her parents and four sisters, and sees a loving family. It makes him feel more alone, more isolated” - Matthew Macfadyen
I see your subpar Darcy and raise you this.
This is my response to this NYT article.
“Still, it is hard not to mourn the decline of the literary tradition invented by Carroll and Barrie, for they also bridged generational divides. No other writers more fully entered the imaginative worlds of children — where danger is balanced by enchantment — and reproduced their magic on the page. In today’s stories, those safety zones are rapidly vanishing as adult anxieties edge out childhood fantasy.”
Yes, that is Peeta Pan.
Before A&E made packrats a national fascination, Silverstein introduced us to Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout, who wouldn’t take the garbage out. The description of all of the yucky things in her rotting trash is gross, but it’s the social implications that really strike a chord. And that’s why you’ll never see me on “Hoarders.
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Everything I Know About Life I Learned From Shel Silverstein (via bookish)
Seriously, I’m pretty sure Shel is the only reason I don’t have dead cats in my freezer. And other things… read the story.
This is the Flavorpill editorial bookshelf. Buzzfeed gathered a bunch of office bookshelves here.
It’s Library Appreciation week!
Go check out books or sign up (or get a friend to sign up) for a new library card.
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