Congrats to S. Terrell French and the fabulous people at Amulet — Operation Redwood just won the 2010 National Green Earth Book Award for Children’s Fiction! Following is the press release:
The 2010 Newton Marasco Foundation (NMF) Annual Green Earth Book Award winners reinforce the importance of environmental stewardship to our nation’s youth at a time [...]
Just got some great news about S. Terrell French’s Operation Redwood! First, from Daily Kos, which prefaces their list thusly:
Best-seller lists, the air waves, oped pages, and blog posts have been filled with Steven Levitt’s and Steven Dubner’s shallow,truthiness-laden Superfreakonomics. [...] There are, essentially, innumerable works more worthy of our attention [...]
So, needless to say, I didn’t quite manage to set up the automatic posts I’d hoped to do. But I have been collecting some exciting links to share, now with more gremlins! (I got tired of posting pictures of chain links.)
An interview with S. Terrell French is up on Cynthia Leitich Smith’s blog [...]
If a book doesn’t spring to the top of the bestseller list when it’s released, is it over? Maybe for folks like Dan Brown (as if!) but not for children’s books, which can grow and grow and grow — both in sales and in attention. For instance, check out this tweet from Kirkus [...]
I love Betsy Bird. Not only for her insightful, entertaining blog, Fuse #8, not only for her co-sponsorship of Kidlit Nights Drinks across the country, but also for this amazing, erudite, overwhelmingly positive review of S. Terrell French’s debut Operation Redwood:
I wonder if contemporary children’s authors ever look at the writers of the past and [...]
