Re: Moravian PanelkellyrfinemanSeptember 11 2007, 21:53:09 UTC
Beverly -- thanks for stopping by. I read the first three books aloud to my kids, and cried while reading it aloud. But I'd already read that one twice by then, so I knew to warn them ahead of time. The interaction with the dead parents got me in all the books except, interestingly, book 7, but I've only read it once so far. Lots of folks I know cried at that scene in book 7, but I was all "yeah, yeah -- let's get to the showdown!"
If you pick a particular age group to try first, let me know -- I'm sure I have a much larger list somewhere. And if you're interested in some folks ideas of the best (so far) of 2007, check out the blogs of Mother Reader and the list from Fuse #8. Betsy (at Fuse) usually only talks about picture books and middle grade, with little YA.
Here were my picks (which I posted at Mother Reader -- but I forgot about 17 Things, which I really liked): Picture Books A Good Day by Kevin Henkes the bunnies are not in their beds by Marisabina Russo Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine, illus by Kadir Nelson Wolf! Wolf! by John Rocco Middle Grade A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban The Secret History of Tom Trueheart by Ian Beck Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick YA Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr Tips on Having a Gay (ex)Boyfriend by Carrie Jones Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephenie Hemphill How to Get Suspended and Influence People by Adam Selzer Poetry collections Animal Poems by Valerie Worth Here's a Little Poem, ed. by Jane Yolen
If you pick a particular age group to try first, let me know -- I'm sure I have a much larger list somewhere. And if you're interested in some folks ideas of the best (so far) of 2007, check out the blogs of Mother Reader and the list from Fuse #8. Betsy (at Fuse) usually only talks about picture books and middle grade, with little YA.
Here were my picks (which I posted at Mother Reader -- but I forgot about 17 Things, which I really liked):
Picture Books
A Good Day by Kevin Henkes
the bunnies are not in their beds by Marisabina Russo
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine, illus by Kadir Nelson
Wolf! Wolf! by John Rocco
Middle Grade
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
The Secret History of Tom Trueheart by Ian Beck
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
YA
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
Tips on Having a Gay (ex)Boyfriend by Carrie Jones
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephenie Hemphill
How to Get Suspended and Influence People by Adam Selzer
Poetry collections
Animal Poems by Valerie Worth
Here's a Little Poem, ed. by Jane Yolen
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