Friday Links
The Horn Book Magazine’s Elissa Gershowitz’s remembers Margaret Mahy.
An NPR poll wants your help to whittling down the best YA Books written…ever!
“Socrates said ‘Know thyself.’ And now you do know yourself better than you did, and your work is getting richer and deeper, and it has such an exciting, emotional quality. I know you don’t need and didn’t ask for compliments from me. These remarks are not compliments—just facts,” says Ursula Nordstrom to Maurice Sendak in a letter.
”Books not to read at the beach” include Charlotte’s Web & Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber…Oh, and Jaws, but that’s a given.
Will “He Who Must Not Be Named” be part of the Olympics opening ceremony tonight?
“I don’t write books with the intention of changing a teen’s life, but just knowing that it’s possible is phenomenal.” Barry Lyga on why he writes for teens.
