The Orange Swan Review

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Sunday, 14 August 2016

Some False and Broken Notes

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The 1929 Newbery Medal Award Winner, The Trumpeter of Krakow , by Eric P. Kelly , which (as you would expect from the title) is set in Kra...
Sunday, 7 August 2016

Lindy West and Radical Goodness

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I first became aware of Lindy West via Twitter several years back because my friends would often retweet some of her bon mots . I followed ...
Sunday, 31 July 2016

Riding Along with CJ

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The 2016 Newbery Medal Winner, Last Stop on Market Street , written by Matt de la Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson, is an atypica...
Sunday, 17 July 2016

Virtue Unrewarded

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Since I don't think I need to worrying about spoiling a novel that is nearly 300 years old, let me start off with a synopsis of Samuel ...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016

The Neverending Pigeon Story

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A Good Reads review written by Good Reads member Phil Jern says of Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon , by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the Newbery Med...
Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Being Hitty

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Years ago when the movie The Red Violin came out, I read a review of it in which the reviewer complained that an inanimate object doesn...
Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Smoky the Cowhorse and Other Fictions

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The inside jacket text of my library copy of the Newbery medalist for 1927, Will James's Smoky the Cowhorse , says that "A cowboy...
Tuesday, 13 October 2015

An Uninvincible Biography

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The Newbery medalist for 1934, Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women , by Cornelia Meigs, hasn't aged well. But ...
Wednesday, 22 July 2015

Chinoiserie and 1920s-Style Multiculturalism

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The Newbery medal-winner for 1926, Shen of The Sea: Chinese Stories for Children, by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, is another Newbery winner that ...
Thursday, 16 July 2015

Why the Future of Publishing May Involve Rotten Tomatoes

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One of the paradoxes of our time is that while people often claim that publishing is in its death throes, it’s never been easier to get publ...
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Saturday, 14 July 2012

Crispin, a Kid on a Quest. You Know, Like Many of the Other Newbery Medal Characters.

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In the Newbery Medal winner for 2003, Crispin: The Cross of Lead , by Avi life for Crispin, a boy of thirteen living in England in 1376 A.D...
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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Etsy's Unique and Handmade Problems

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If I’m going to write about Etsy, I should probably begin by saying that up until this past spring, I loved Etsy. Etsy was, if not in exact...
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