Hype. What’s the point? A publisher believes that a book is going to be big so they crank up the old hype machine and do everything in their power to draw attention to it long before its publication date. That’s what they did for Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck and I was sad to see it. As far as I was concerned, Selznick’s
Posts Tagged ‘illustrated novels’
Review of the Day: Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Friday, September 9th, 2011Review of the Day: The Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
There are good and bad results that occur when a book like Diary of a Wimpy Kid hits the stratosphere. On the one hand, suddenly publishers are a lot more open-minded about breathing life into books that… Read More
Review of the Day: Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf by Jennifer L. Holm
Friday, September 21st, 2007
I remember being 13 or so and talking with a much older cousin of mine. When he asked me what grade I was in I told him seventh and he chuckled to himself. “Man, that was the worst.” Was it? At the time I couldn’t quite figure out what he meant. Sure middle school was… Read More
