Four series I love came to an end this year. Two I’m okay with; one I’m uncertain about, ONE I AM IN COMPLETE DENIAL ABOUT YES JESSICA DAY GEORGE I AM LOOKING AT YOU. Although I am very sad (and in denial, DON’T LOOK AWAY WHEN I AM TALKING TO YOU, JESSICA), fortunately for me [...]

Sarah was here visiting this weekend, and we decided to make a bunch of video reviews. They all ended up being about picture books, and most of the picture books were older. We decided that we would post these videos (whether we did them together or separately) on Tuesdays and call it OLD RELEASE TUESDAYS, [...]

It is easy, as a white person, to forget about racism – especially in this Obama-centric time. We elected a black President, didn’t we? Look at how far we’ve come!
It is easy, as a white bookseller in a predominantly white community, to look at the shop shelves and not see much of a problem when [...]

This is 2009, right? And supposedly the world is more politically correct, more sympathetic. People are trying not to say things like “that’s so gay!” when a friend is being silly or weird or nonsensical or annoying, for instance.
So why do I have to open up not one, but two middle-grade novels this month, to [...]

From Sherman’s website:
Dear readers, my YA novel, Radioactive Love Song, has been replaced on my writing and publication schedule by The Magic and Tragic Year of My Broken Thumb, which is great news, since Magic and Tragic is the sequel to The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Yes, I am currently hard at [...]