Tag: middle grade

  • On editing Roald Dahl, and what I’d want for my own books decades from now

    I scrolled into an interesting article/headline the other day: Big-Five publisher Puffin is implementing “extensive changes” across legendary author Roald Dahl’s catalog of children’s books. Some strike me more as modernization — replacing masculine plural nouns with gender-neutral ones — while others explicitly aim to remove offensive language. This is a thought-provoking issue for me…

  • Book review: Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder (middle grade)

    Book review: Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder (middle grade)

    When did you read your first serious novels? I remember the latter half of elementary school as a time of discovering dark stories, complex characters, books that grappled with big scary issues. Sometimes this was because I’d raided my parents’ collection of horror and dystopian fiction, but oftentimes not. When my own kiddo reached this…