Links from the web jungle
WEB OF INTEREST –>
– From Salon, a textual comparison of The Hunger Games, Twilight and Harry Potter
– The Harry Potter Alliance has launched a Hunger Games-themed social justice campaign
– Stacked has a list of 2014 Contemporary YA to get on your radar
– Kirkus Reviews shares their picks for best children’s book of 2013
– From Mental Floss, Shel Silverstein‘s unlikely rise to kid lit superstardom
<– AUTHOR TALK
– Robert V.S. Redick explains why, when it comes to writing fantasy, omnipotence is impotence
– Shannon Hale on not mocking Austen (but laughing all the same)
– Maria Alexander on why she hates (most) photos and drawings of women with swords
– Debut author Alison Cherry shares nine things about publishing she didn’t know going in
– In case of holiday travel, Michelle Gagnon shares her book tour travel essentials
WEB READS –>
– Read the first twenty pages of Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality by Elizabeth Fulberg
– Check out an excerpt from These Broken Stars by Arnie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
– Read an excerpt from Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
– Check out the first fifty pages of Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
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