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1/10/11

Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword wins the Sydney Taylor Award

Fantasy may have been shut out of the Newbery, but Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, written and illustrated by Barry Deutsch, was the Sydney Taylor Award winner in the Older Readers Category, the first graphic novel to be so honored. How can one resit its tag-line: “Yet Another Troll-Fighting 11-Year-Old Orthodox Jewish Girl.”

But despite that, it is downstairs in my book pile even as I type, still unread but only a little overdue....sigh.
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6 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 10, 2011 at 9:12 PM

    Ha! I love it. I've never even heard of that book, but the tag-line is a total gem. I have the urge to scroll it across a wall- or at least a notebook cover :)

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  2. Beth G.January 10, 2011 at 10:01 PM

    Oh, excellent. Somehow, I missed that one in all the awards hubbub.

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  3. DoretJanuary 10, 2011 at 10:40 PM

    Much Congrats to the author. I loved me some Hereville.

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  4. Deva FaganJanuary 11, 2011 at 8:29 AM

    I really enjoyed HEREVILLE and am so pleased it won something!

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  5. Anamaria (bookstogether)January 11, 2011 at 5:02 PM

    It's on my library shelf, too! Will have to compare notes.

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  6. PentheJanuary 13, 2011 at 3:40 AM

    I might have accidentally read the whole thing in a bookshop in Sydney on the weekend. I think I should have bought it and I think I will.

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