I’ve received some interesting votes…Max, from Mrs. Madison’s 5th grade class, likes Sunny from A Series of Unfortunate Events because he likes babies and things with overbites. A student from Enterprise Middle School nominated Gwydon from Wolfproof. To Kill A Mockingbird’s Scout Finch was mentioned twice, and there was a vote for Lucy Pevinse of The Lion, [...]
Last week several readers talked to me, just liked I hope they would, about their favorite character from WP. So far, Sarah is in the lead. It got me thinking about characters we love. Long after the last page is closed, certain characters continue to inhabit our minds and hearts. I thought about characters I’ve [...]
Okay, this review got me so excited that I had to post it: “Wolfproof” is especially recommended for school and community library Science Fiction & Fantasy collections., November 5, 2006 Reviewer: Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) – See all my reviews Enhanced with thirteen black-and-white illustrations by John Murphy, award winning poet, author and [...]
For those of you interested in how Wolfproof came to be, check out Backstory :http://mjroseblog.typepad.com/backstory/ on Nov.9th. Wolfproof will be the feature story of the day. Backstory asks authors to share the story behind their novel. Check out your favorite authors! ”Where authors share their secrets, truths, logical and illogical moments that sparked their fiction.”
Some of my friends at Chief Jo Middle School in Richland, WA were eager to hear about Wolfproof and how authors work. They were also eager to have themselves represented on the website. What a good looking bunch of readers!