Tag: middle-grade lit
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TRANSCRIPT: AMA Part 2: Academic and Fiction Book Recs, My Tastes in Monster Storytelling, and More!
Hello and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is part two of the Ask Me Anything. Answering your very good, very in-depth, detailed questions took more time than I realized it was going to, so got broken up into two…
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Christina Soontornvat: Casually Renewing My Faith in Middle-Grade
I have recently become acquainted with the work of Christina Soontornvat, and I’m so glad that I have. I haven’t felt such a high level of enthusiasm for contemporary middle-grade fantasy in a while. I don’t intend that to sound quite as shady as it does; there are certainly a lot of great things happening…
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A Cup of Kindness
Why, hello! I haven’t blogged since August! This semester has truly been the most exhausting and hectic academic term of my life. I started off with back-to-back illnesses (food poisoning followed immediately by an interminable chest cold), then had a perfect storm of time consuming coursework and travel (a really fun Monday night Camden/Tuesday morning…
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