Reading a novel is kind of a strange experience: there are voices in your head telling you a story, often pretending you’re there in the room with them—or, even stranger, pretending that you are inside their minds. Books in the form of a diary are much less strange to contemplate: it’s perfectly reasonable to imagine you’ve picked […]
The comic novel is not a genre as popular as it once was. This form, generally expressed in the format of a sane narrator slowly unraveling at the slowly-building chaos around them, or responding to a bunch of crazy characters or situations, had its big cultural moment in the middle of the 20th century, and […]
In the last year young readers have been rewarded with an abundance of terrific new titles. With an inspiring new collection of stories for Rebel Girls, a new Diary of a Wimpy Kid novel, newly discovered books from Shel Silverstein AND Mark Twain, and a hilarious return to the Dragons Love Tacos universe, our list of […]