![]() ![]() As I perused the list, reading the summaries of all these wonderful sounding books that I might never get to read, I was intrigued by Janice Hardy's book, The Shifter, then surprised and thrilled to lear that she is an American and that this book is available here in paperback and waiting for me on the shelf of the bookstore where I work! And, naturally, the James Brown of cover illustrators, Brandon Dorman has provided the always wonderful artwork for this trilogy. I guess Neil Gaiman's Green Card is good enough for the ALA) was announced on this blog. On January 11, the short list for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, the closest thing to the Newbery Award here in the US, with the exception that the award can be won by a book who's author is not British (unlike the Newbery, which can only be won by an American. ![]() I am a fan of all things British, especially their fantasy writing, and I follow a great blog based in the UK called Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books that features reviews of new fantasy for kids that is frequently NOT being published in the US simultaneously or even a year down the road. ![]()
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