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Y'all know that once I like a children's author I latch onto their leg like a pit bull, chomp down hard, and won't let go. Just try to shake me off, Frances Hardinge! I'll never let you go!
Anywho, just learned from Kelly at Big A little a that Hardinge has a new book out called Verdigris Deep and it's been getting all kinds of cool reviews from the British Times here and here. When's it coming out in America? Your guess is as good as mine. The Amazon record is apparently just for the Australian version. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go find Michael Stearns and poke him until Harper Collins consents to buy it for America.
It's still in its rough form (sans annotations and the like) but the
Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) has put out its
CCBC 2007 Choices list. I like how they break the list up into unique categories without a set number of items for each. There were a couple of things on here I was happy to see listed. We all have our pet books that we wish could have gotten more attention.
Things I Was Happy To See:
- Montes, Marisa. Los Gatos Black on Halloween. Illustrated by Yuyi Morales. Henry Holt, 2006. 32 pages (trade 0-8050-7429-5, $16.95)
- Allen, Thomas B. Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War. Illustrated by Carla Bauer. National Geographic, 2006. 191 pages (trade 0-7922-7889-5, $16.95; lib. 0-7922-7890-9, $25.90
- Thimmesh, Catherine. Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 80 pages (trade 0-618-50757-4), $19.95
- Brown, Calef. Flamingos on the Roof. Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 64 pages (trade 0-618-56298-2, $16.00)
- Lawson, JonArno. The Man in the Moon-Fixer’s Mask. Illustrated by Sherwin Tjia. U.S. edition: Wordsong / Boyds Mills, 2006. 79 pages (trade 1-932425-82-9, $14.95)
- Rex, Adam. Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. Harcourt, 2006. 40 pages (trade 0-15-205766-8, $16.00)
- Grey, Mini. The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 32 pages (trade 0-375-83691-8, $16.95; lib. 0-375-93691-2, $18.99)
- Smith, Linda. Mrs. Crump’s Cat. Illustrated by David Roberts. HarperCollins, 2006. 32 pages (trade 0-06-028302-5, $15.99; lib. 0-06-443551-2, $16.89)
- Han, Jenny. Shug. Simon & Schuster, 2006. 248 pages (trade 1-4169-0942-7, $14.95)
- Jenkins, Emily. Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. Schwartz & Wade Books / Random House, 2006. 116 pages (trade 0-375-83604-7, $16.95; lib. 0-375-93604-1, $18.99)
- Lin, Grace. The Year of the Dog. Little, Brown, 2006. 134 pages (trade 0-316-06000-3, $14.99)
- Schlitz, Laura Amy. A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama. Candlewick Press, 2006. 389 pages (trade 0-7636-2930-8, $15.99)
- Springer, Nancy. The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery. Sleuth / Philomel, 2006.
216 pages (trade 0-399-24304-6, $10.99) - Wulf, Linda Press. The Night of the Burning: Devorah’s Story. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 210 pages (trade 0-374-36419-2, $16.00)
Yay, unappreciated books! Which isn't to say there weren't...
Glaring Omissions:
- Where's Kathleen Krull's bio on Isaac Newton? Oh fine. I've heard your complaints about the lack of Endnotes or citations. Pfui. I liked the book just fine.
- The Book of Everything by Guus Kuijer? No list that includes both children and teen titles should forget this amazing little number.
- To Dance by Siena Siegel? Other graphic novels made the list. So why not one of the best?
- When You Were Small by Sara O'Leary? Actually, I'm not surprised. Everyone forgets this book. It may be the best picture book of 2006, but somehow it keeps falling through the cracks. The curse of small publishers, I guess.
- Not a Box by Antoinette Portis? The surprise hit of 2006. No library should be without it.
- And, of course, the Best Book of 2006 - Fly By Night. Nowhere to be seen. *sniffle*
That's what I love the most about big lists. You can natter away about what was and wasn't featured till you're hoarse. Personally, I think the New York Public Library's
100 Books For Reading and Sharing list is the best out there, but I'm more than a little biased.
CCBC Choices 2007 will be available at the CCBC after March 3, 2007.
Thanks to Cynsations for the link.
Nicolette Jones's review in The Times is spot-on. The language in Verdigris Deep is brilliant (just like Fly By Night). I was weeping with envy each time I encountered yet another perfect phrase. In particular, though, I loved the main trio: Ryan, Josh and Chelle. Great characters: quirky, but convincingly normal and very well handled. I was quite sad to say good-bye to them when I finished the book this weekend (but very pleased to be in the UK so that I could meet them!).
So... uh... you wouldn't... uh... wanna lend me a book, would you? Wouldja couldja?
I just went and ordered both of Frances Hardinge's books from Amazon.uk due to your raves about them. There seems to be an explosion of great new British fantasy writers, such as Catherine Webb. Have you read her Horatio Lyle books? I'm planning to order her other books soon.
Jenny Schwartzberg
Oh, dear goof, of course we're publishing it here. And her next one, too, which is strange and wonderful. And a fourth book, which looks as though it may be another Mosca Mye title...
However! (There is always a however.) For various complicated and boring reasons, we are not going to publish her second novel until next spring. :(
M.
I am going to be in Scotland in 3 weeks and I will defintely be picking this up. Have you managed to get a copy yet Fuse?
Oh, yay! Good news to make my Monday. The only sad part is having to wait...