Friday, May 11, 2012 at 11:18AM Seth Lehrer, author of Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, writes: "Recent criticism has made clear that children's literature exists as literature: that it has forms and genres, an imaginative scope, a mastery of figurative language, an enduring cast of characters, a self-conscious sense of authorship, a poetics, a politics, a prose style."
So, no wonder we love it!
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:51AM In this week's Time magazine, Lev Grossman reviews a YA novel by John Green, The Fault in Our Stars. The review is a strong endorsement of the novel, the story of two adolescents with cancer, but also of YA in general:
"Green's book is also a good example of why so many adult readers are turning to young-adult literature for the pleasures and consolations they used to get from conventional literary fiction. Its pacing is steady and brisk--it declines to linger lugubriously over ever last observable detail--and its prose is sharp and clean and unshowy. It's funny, but it's not clever or overly impressed with itself."
YA is carving out a much-deserved share of the adult reader market share. Why do you like YA?
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 12:34PM Not a vacation from reading, but a vacation from the daily --by reading. That's what I plan to do over the next few months. I'm overdue a reading rampage, and when I think back to the spring of 2012, that's what I plan to remember. I'm reading everything. Fiction, non-fiction, YA, adult, middle-grade, genre... all of it.
Aren't you due a reading vacation too?
