I’m delighted to share another true love story, this one about art and love, and, eventually, inspiration. Ellen Booraem is the author of The Unnameables, Small Persons with Wings, and Texting the Underworld, which Publishers Weekly called “Affecting, funny, and provocative”. Enjoy! In December 1979, a young artist in Newton […]
Small Persons With Wings
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Well, not hens so much as ravens. Sort of. In Ellen Booraem’s Texting the Underworld, they’re just called The Birds: There they were, the three Birds perched on a roost thirty feet away. They were huge, almost as tall as Conor, plump and glossy, with cruelly curved bills. The bird […]
Congratulations are due, once again, to Ellen Booraem! Small Person With Wings lands on yet another “Best Children’s Books of 2011” list, this time with thanks to the lovely folks at Kirkus Reviews! They linked once again to the full, starred review: Whatever you do, don’t call them fairies. They […]
Publishers Weekly has announced the Best Books of 2011, and I’m thrilled that Ellen Booraem‘s Small Persons With Wings made the cut! Call them Parvi Pennati, call them Small Persons with Wings, just don’t call them fairies. Booraem’s middle-grade novel, in which an outcast girl comes into her own, is […]
I’m thrilled to share some good news to get this holiday break off to an excellent start! First, let’s announce the winners of our contests, shall we? First up, Anne C. wins a kt literary tote bag for her picture with her copy of Anna and the French Kiss. Anne, […]
Huzzah! We just got news of our third starred review for Ellen Booraem‘s Small Persons With Wings, this one from School Library Journal‘s forthcoming January edition: When 13-year-old Mellie Turpin was very young, her best friend was a three-inch-tall Small Person with Wings (or Parvi Pennati–but never call them fairies!) […]
I had great intentions this year to post quarterly status reports on my query stats, but I seem to have missed a quarter (here’s April and July, at least). A quick recap: in the first three months of 2010, I saw 1,297 queries and requested 20 partials, passing on all […]
This time of year is super exciting here at kt literary. Not only are the holidays approaching, and with it, our annual closure to queries and a chance to get caught up on reading for pleasure, but this year in particular, we’ve also got some AMAZING projects coming out in […]