First off, my interview with Gita Wolf, publisher of Tara Books, is up on Cynsations, Cynthia Leitich Smith's blog. Tara Books is an incredible publishing company in India. I love their books, which happily are available worldwide. I'll get to meet Gita Wolf at the Bologna Book Fair later this month!
Fuse #8, the way cool, awesome NYC librarian, ran another book poll. She blogs on School Library Journal. Librarians, readers, and writers sent her their top 10 and she compiled the choices. She is sharing them on her blog, plus she adds interesting background information and lots of cover photos. She is at #35 to #31 in her countdown. Scroll down to links to the other posts of top 100 books. I've already found a few books I somehow missed reading that I plan to add to my reading pile.
What will the top 10 be?
Her top 100 picture books poll from 2009 can be found here.
Blogs--
A delightful, award winning author's new blog: Khanversations by Rukhsana Khan, a daily blog. Drop by and say "hi."
New books to look for, mostly released this month:
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia. (I got this one for my birthday this month. That made me happy.)
Feeding the Sheep, a great picture book by Leda Schubert. (Sheep, wool, great story and great illustrations.)
Saving Maddie by Varian Johnson (I heard Varian read from this at VCFA. He's a wonderful writer. He is on a blog tour this week. Here is a link to one of the stops at Gwenda Bond's blog and a link to another great blog tour interview at newport2newport on livejournal))
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson (I'm hearing so many good things about this book.)
Benno and the Night of Broken Glass, a picture book by Meg Wiviott. (Benno is a cat. This book deals with the holocaust, through the cat's eyes.)
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LOVED The Sky Is Everywhere. Though one of my fellow students called it "maudlin". Argh! Actually, by the end of the book, I could see a few flaws with it, but I was so in love I didn't even care.
It felt a very honest (scary honest) response to the pain of death and got me thinking about how honest my own writing is or whether I could dig deeper.
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