Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 10:06AM Yes, you heard right. The National Book Foundation has announced three additional books that will be competing in the Young People's Literature category. The NBF regrets its failure to include these worthy titles in the original announcement, explaining, "We read a lot of books. Occasionally, we get confused."
They are, SLIME:
CLIMB,
and, of course,
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 11:58AM Yup, that's right: today's Washington Post's KidsPost feature was an article about me and When Life Gives You O.J. And it was a great article, too - well-written and geared toward the KidsPost readership. I was super-thrilled to shuffle out in my slippers and pick up my copy. And I've gotten some very nice calls and emails about in (who says no one reads the paper any more?), which has been great.
Here's the story, by the way, though I encourage you to pick up a print edition for several reasons:
1) You can enjoy seeing an interview with a children's book author positioned higher on the page and taking up more column inches than a piece on Rosie O'Donnell and Russell Brand (poor dears, they are relegated to the spot below the fold).
2) The headline - "Messy Journals Inspire Neat Story" is about as good as they come.
3) When you're done reading about O.J., there's the crossword puzzle (like Russell, also below the fold).
Enjoy!
