Now that’s a review
Roger Sutton, Horn Book editor gets to grips with Jaclyn Moriarty’s lastest book The Spell Book of Listen Taylor in The New York Times. I share many of his thoughts about the Listen Taylor, though ne’er so well expressed…
And Sutton says some important things about trends in YA.
“Young adult literature has been doing some growing up. It’s not that it is getting better (although in a lot of ways it is) but rather that more and more of it is being aimed at older teenagers. “Twelve and up†used to be the standard reading-level designation for young adult novels; now “14 and up†or even “16 and up†have become common.”
More here.
Meanwhile, Extras, the fourth in Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies (ahem) trilogy is described as a superb piece of popular art:
“Extras†is just as thrilling as its predecessors, but it’s also a thoughtful novel of ideas, a brilliant parody of the modern obsession with fame, writes James Hynes in the New York Times.
Extras is out now in Australia.
