Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for November 19, 2013.
Newbery Medal Winners Applegate and Gantos: Read or Rot!
At the beginning of the year, Katherine Applegate won the 2013 Newbery Medal for her beautiful book about courage and kindness, The One and Only Ivan. Her predecessor was the incomparable Jack Gantos, who won the Medal in 2012 for Dead End in Norvelt, the funny and heartwarming story of one strange summer in the life of a boy named...Jack Gantos.
In the Q&A below, Applegate checked in with…
The Best of the Year in Literature
Lucky me: I get to introduce you to our literature and fiction best of the 2013 list. While it’s true that I, like most fiction readers, can always find something to recommend, this year's crop of novels and stories (yes, stories! It was a banner year for the short form, too!) is truly an embarrassment of riches. And not just for those who embrace their inner grad student or are looking …
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