Love for Graceling (And the 'first novel' phenomenon.) (Shelftalker)

- My boss gave me this article yesterday (I agree with a lot of it, but it was so fun to recall many of the Newbery titles that did and do continue to work. I believe the Newbery can get back on track through more discussion like this.) (SLJ)

- Aw. Free to Be You and Me (Thirty-Five years old? And that makes me, how old? Ugh.) (USA Today)

- 'Pretty Monsters' at Bookslut (Very October, very goth-y. Cool.)

- 'Why are there still so few attractive reading books featuring black and Asian children?' (Asks Kate Agnew at the Guardian)

- The Literature of Comics (And if you're in San Francisco: The Kick-Ass All Girl Graphic Novel Panel.) (SF Examiner)

- University of Texas Austin (Will be one of the first to try e-text books. Cool.) (ars technica)

- Props to Ginger Spice (Geri Halliwell named best selling children's author in the UK.) (AHN)

- Prepare to get depressed (The new book The Porning of America asks what the mainstreaming of porn in America means for children.) (Newsweek)

- Neil Gaiman's Graveyard (which you can watch him read for free, and yes, he was country before country was cool.) (CNN) (Wired)

- The new Twilight poster! (critiqued by Entertainment Weekly)

P.S. Check out the comment on Monday's Ypulse Book Essentials for more info on the fan-created Ning behind Sabrina Bryan's [with help from Julia DeVillers] book.

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