US: April 2005 Archives

Course Requirement

By
achuka
on April 22, 2005 7:17 AM | | Comments (0)

Children's literature gains popularity - The Heights - Features

Although young adult and children's literature has always been available, it has recently become more abundant in university course offerings...

A course in children's and young adult literature is a course requirement in many American universities and colleges. We have two student teachers from the University of Illinois currently working in our school and their knowledge and experience of contemporary children's books far surpasses that of student teachers trained in our own universities, where the coverage of children's literature is paltry in the extreme.

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YA Author Interview

By
achuka
on April 21, 2005 8:22 AM | | Comments (0)

AfterEllen.com - Interview with Julie Anne Peters

Young adult author Julie Anne Peters was shocked when her novel Luna (2004), a story about a transgender teen, was nominated for a National Book Award. “I just couldn’t believe it,” she says. A self-described reclusive writer who lives in Colorado with her partner of 31 years, Sherri Leggett, Peters had written nine children’s books before her editor suggested that she write a young adult lesbian love story. That suggestion turned into Keeping You a Secret (2003), and changed Peters’s choice of career into a calling: to tell more stories about LGBT teens. Her latest novel, Far From Xanadu, which will be published in May...


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Sendak Exhibition

By
achuka
on April 15, 2005 8:06 AM | | Comments (0)

The New York Times > Books > Sendak in All His Wild Glory

NYT feature abou the Maurice Sendak exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York:

The large New York exhibition aims to interpret Mr. Sendak through his Jewish identity, which means that favorite characters from "The Nutshell Library" and "Little Bear" make only cameo appearances. Still, narrowing the focus is a useful and relevant - make that primal - way to digest the volume of images, ideas and emotions that suffuse these pictures... ...

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Walter Mosley

By
achuka
on April 13, 2005 8:21 AM | | Comments (0)

Easy writer

Due next month, [Mosley's] young adult novel "47" — part magic realism, part science fiction, part folk tale — is the story of a young slave boy's struggle toward freedom.

"Descendants of the victims of slavery find it hard to look straight into that image because it is so painful," Mosley says. "I wanted to write something … to help people understand the nature of freedom…. The only way to be free is to free yourself."

Girl Atlas

By
achuka
on April 12, 2005 7:51 AM | | Comments (0)

Zap2it.com MOVIES | MOVIE NEWS | STORY

Will Smith may be the rapper in the family, but wife-actress Jada Pinkett Smith is no slouch in the rhyming department. Children's book publisher Scholastic announced on Monday, April 11 that the 33-year-old starlet will debut her picture book Girls Hold Up This World in second place on the New York Times children's best seller list.

Maine Island Novel

By
achuka
on April 11, 2005 8:19 AM | | Comments (0)

Fast friends in a turbulent time

Interview with author of US YA novel Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Jacquelyn Mitchard Feature

By
achuka
on April 1, 2005 8:12 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The Capital Times

[Mitchard] has written a children's novel, Rosalie, My Rosalie that is also being released in April. Aimed at young readers, it tells the tale of a strong-willed little girl who raises a tiny duckling and then faces tough decisions about her unusual pet. It is Mitchard's third children's book. "Writing children's books is a useful discipline because you don't have much room. A picture book is 16 pages, 32 sides and within that space you must create a complete and compelling world, filled with faucets, and blue jeans, and animals, and things that happen and people that matter. It helps remind me of the best advice I ever got from my agent, about 20 years ago...

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