John Green: The Most Popular Nerdfighter Around
In keeping with Teen Read Week, today’s news centers around the YA world, with a disproportionate number of John Green references.what can we say, this self-proclaimed nerd is extremely popular!
- Is David Small’s Stitches a young adult book? Lots of people have been asking this question since the National Book Award finalists were announced, and John Green raises the issue on his blog. He admits that he has “become totally uninterested in the question of whether a book is or is not for children,” essentially because teens will read what they want to read, whether or not it was marketed as a teen book. His posting ellicited some interesting comments from readers about how to define the YA genre.
- And speaking of John Green, he’s the star of Omnivoracious’ YA Wednesday, where he expresses shock at beating out “hot vampires” on YALSA’s Teen Top Ten list. He thanks all of the participating teens in one of his famous, homemade videos, and makes some funny comments about professional wrestling. Omnivoracious also links to a celebration of Norma Fox Mazer and an inside look into the Alloy idea process (responsible for Gossip Girl and The Clique, among others).
- Translating the magic of Roald Dahl to the big screen takes a delicate touch, and the Guardian is praising Wes Anderson for his successful adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox. The article discusses the difficulties of translating a British work into an American movie and calls Fantastic Mr. Fox “one of very few adaptations of classic British children’s literature that moves a story into our era, while remaining faithful to the original author’s vision in both look and feel.”
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