Newsday.com - New 'Sambo' Version Stirs Old Criticism
Also see entry for December 14...
"The re-release of "The Story of Little Black Sambo" by Brooklyn-based Handprint Books has angered some black critics, while drawing praise from the prestigious Kirkus Reviews...."
Telegraph | Arts | Meet the 21st-century Tolkien
In a highly recommended feature, Michael Shelden interviews the Paolini family [see current ACHUKA Choice]
"...you don't go to the Paolini house and just interview Christopher. The whole family gathers round the kitchen table and speaks in turn, answering my questions, correcting each other and asking questions of their own. Eragon - and the other two books in the Inheritance trilogy that will follow it - is a family business.
Books & Culture Corner: The Top Ten Books of 2003 - Christianity Today Magazine
Young Adult novel chosen as #3 book of the year by Christianity Today Magazine:
The Curse of the Raven Mocker by Marly Youmans
"If you haven't heard about this novel, that may be because it was published as a Young Adult book..."
commercialappeal.com - Memphis, TN: Book Reviews
Hawthorne: A Life by Brenda Wineapple
"His first novel, "Fanshawe," bombed. He plied his hand at children's books, many of which are classics today...
Self-immersion was his gift. After all, the country Hawthorne resided in was the past - his past - and that is where he is buried. With this superb biography, Brenda Wineapple fearlessly goes back there, and exhumes him from it."
Scholastic brings back Stine's 'Goosebumps' series
"Hoping to capitalize on the still-strong interest in the series, Scholastic, which published the "Goosebumps" books, is re-releasing 25 of the bestselling titles in the series. Each book will have a first re-printing of 125,000 copies..."
Stine's most recetn book, a teen thriller called Dangerous Girls, tells the story of twin sisters whose summer camp experience get scary when a handsome fellow counselor turns out to be a vampire...
Boston.com / A&E / Books / 'I don't know how to do children's books'
Maurice Sendak interviewed about his new book Brundibar
"I don't believe in children's books. I did it because this was the form that pulled me or drove me, not because I had a passion for children. . . . I have very little respect for books that are written -- quote -- for children."
