Tag: middle-grade lit
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TRANSCRIPT: Monstrous Middle-Grade: Interview with Laura Parnum
Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and I am happy to welcome you to our second installment of interview weekend. Yesterday, I released an interview with middle-grade horror author Ally Russell, who I met at an author event at Thrillerdelphia…
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TRANSCRIPT: Monstrous Middle-Grade: Interview with Ally Russell
Hello and welcome to the Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide. I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and I am extremely excited to welcome you to interview weekend over here on the channel. Over the next three days, you’ll be getting three new videos, all of which include very interesting people…
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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…