Babble

I never thought I'd be one to sing the praises of Young Goodman Brown , The Canterbury Tales , Billy Budd, or any of the classics forced upon me as a freshman in high school. (In my defense, I was 14, and if you asked me then who I considered to be a literary genius, my answer would have been Neil Peart...

It's my favorite part of a new year: the enumerating, the categorizing, the criticizing. It's Award Season! And it's happening in the blogosphere and it's happening to children's and young adult literature, as the short lists are out for the Cybils . Eight categories, five finalists in each (ten for...