This past week I took part in Armchair BEA, and one topic of discussion was Children's Books. I'm offering this post as my contribution--what better way to show that there are lots of out there who love MG SFF!
I do these round-ups every week, reading through the blogs I follow and employing cunning google searches to find more. I am a tad selective--I generally don't include really short or cursory reviews, or reviews of books (like Harry Potter and the Lightning Thief) that have saturated the market. Every week I miss lots of posts--if I missed you, let me know, and feel free to send me links at any time (charlotteslibrary at gmail dot com). Thanks!
The Reviews:
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett, at alibrarymama
The Aviary, by Kathleen O'Dell, at Kid Lit Geek
Darke, by Angie Sage, at Leaf's Reviews
The Devil's Backbone, by Rae Ann Parker, at Barbara Ann Watson
Doll Bones, by Holly Black, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile, That Blog Belongs to Emily Brown, Charlotte's Library, and So Many Books, So Little Time
The Emerald Atlas, by John Stephens, at Bibliophile Support Group
The Emerald Ring, by Dorine White, at Geo Librarian and Bibliophile Support Group
Enchanted Glass, by Diana Wynne Jones, at books4yourkids
Fake Mustache, by Tom Angleberger, at Sonderbooks
The Golden Door, by Emily Rodda, at Scott Reads It
The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle, by Christopher Healy, at Michelle I. Mason
The Hotel Under the Sand, by Kage Baker, at It's what you read when you don't have to
House of Secrets, by Ned Vizzini and Chris Columbus, at Ms. Yingling Reads
In Search of Goliath Hercules, by Jennifer Angus, at My Brain on Books
Island of Silence, by Lisa McMann, at Back to Books
The Key and the Flame, by Claire M. Caterer, at Boys and Literacy
Leni Cyrus: School Virus, by Joe Schreiber, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Loki's Wolves, by K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr, at Aine's Realm and Books, Books, and More Books
The Lost Hero, by Rick Riordan (audiobook review) at Karrisa's Reading Review
Magic Zero, byThomas E. Sniegoski and Ghristopher Golden, at Guys Lit Wire
Margaret and the Moth Tree, by Brit Trogen and Kari Trogen, at Reads for Keaps
The Neptune Project, by Polly Holyoke, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Once Upon the End, by James Riley, at Carstairs Considers
The Orphanage of Miracles, by Amy Neftzger, at Sharon the Librarian
Parched, by Melanie Crowder, at Akossiwa Ketoglo
Path of Beasts, by Lian Tanner, at Kid Lit Geek (audiobook)
The Planet Thieves, by Dan Krokos, at In Bed With Books
Relics of Mysticus Books 1 and 2--The Serpent's Shadow and The Trickster's Totem, by H. B. Bolton, at Dear, Restless Reader
Rump, by Liesl Shurtliff, at Bookalicious, Books Take You Places, and Views from the Tesseract
The Runaway King, by Jennifer Nielsen, at YA Book Shelf
School for Good and Evil, by Soman Chainani, at I Heart Reading
Summerkin, by Sarah Prineas, at Karissa's Reading Review
A Tale Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz (audiobook) at Rex Robot Reviews
A Tangle of Knots, by Lisa Graff, at Books Beside My Bed
Through the Skylight, by Ian Baucom, at Librarian of Snark
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead, at Kid Lit Geek
The Year of Shadows, by Claire Legrand, at Shelf-employed
Authors and Illustrators
Dan Krokos (The Planet Thieves) at In Bed With Books
R.R. Russell (Wonderlight) at The Write Path
Merrie Haskell (Handbook for Dragon Slayers) at Catch A Star As It Falls
H.B. Bolton (The Serpent's Ring/Trickster's Totem) at Literary Rambles (giveaway)
Janni Lee Simner (Bones of Faerie series, which is actually YA, but she's talking about researching fantasy, so it's applicable) at Cynsations
Karen Sandler (Tankborn and Awakening, also YA, but she's talking about writing diverse characters, so also of mg interest) at Rich in Color
R.L.W. Lee (the Andy Smithson series) at BC Blog Critics
Other Good Stuff
If you have a kid around who loves graphic novels (I raise my hand), send them over to the Kids Comics Revolution 2013 awards, where they can vote for their favorites in various categories (added bonus: the nominees make for a lovely shopping list...)
Likewise, nominations are now open for the QBR Phyllis Wheatley Book Award which recognizes the best African American books and writers from 2012 in categories including children's books. The deadline to nominate an author is June 15th, 2013 (thanks Tanita).
And how I love that you do these round-ups! Armchair BEA was great I must say.
ReplyDeleteLove seeing all these links and how many middle grade reviews there are out there. Thanks for including mine.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the round up! Love the links to both awards. (I have to think of who I want to nominate!)
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks all of you for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteFabulous, as always. I love seeing what books are making the rounds in the MG SFF arena. I need to read more and review more.
ReplyDeleteviz reviewing--preferably of books begining with difficult letter like K and X and Z. I find it interesting that "B," which dominated so many round-ups last year, has fallen totally out of favor...
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