How exciting! We’re just swimming in stars this year at KT Lit! Congrats to A.L. Sonnichsen, whose debut middle grade novel-in-verse Red Butterfly just earned its second starred review. Thank you to Publishers Weekly, who writes: Evocative first-person poems divided into three sections—“Crawl,” “Dissolve,” and “Fly”—combine with small, delicate b&w […]
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Congratulation to A.L. Sonnichsen, whose first review for her debut Red Butterfly is in, and it’s a STAR from Kirkus! Set against the backdrop of China’s one-child policy, this emotional debut novel-in-verse reveals how one girl refuses to be left behind. Eleven-year-old Kara lives a sheltered life in Tianjin with […]
We’re reorganizing the office today in preparation for new carpet, so everything’s getting picked up and moved around, which is a fantastic opportunity to go through and get rid of stuff and things and clutter. Even electronic things are getting filed and put away in the right place, like this […]
Who’s a pretty, pretty princess? This girl right here, with not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! That’s right, My True Love Gave to Me just got its fourth starred review, from Booklist. As follows: Holiday canoodling stories by twelve of the top YA authors? It’s […]
My Christmas tree is going to be quite crowded this year with all these stars! You may have already seen on Steph’s Tumblr, but I’m delighted to share that My True Love Gave to Me just received its third starred review, this one from School Library Journal, who wrote: Twelve […]
Thanks to Publishers Weekly for the second star for this fabulous holiday anthology edited by Stephanie Perkins! Cute boys, mistletoe, counting down to the midnight kiss on New Year’s Eve—there’s no shortage of cozy setups for holiday romance in this captivating collection of short stories by a dozen of today’s […]
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!) […]
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 […]
Woot! Another starred review for a star of kt literary — this time, Ellen Booraem‘s second middle grade novel, Small Persons With Wings. Publishers Weekly writes: In a fairy story that’s wistful, humorous, and clever, Booraem (The Unnameables) suggests that the real world–with its disappointments and failings–is still better than […]