- "'I write very short sentences, intentionally easy to read,' O'Shaughnessy says. 'I have no interest in writing something that only academics can read and understand. I always want to try to reach the unreachable reader, to put a book into a kid's hands, without using the phrase that I hate: 'Hey kids, reading is good for you.' I think that is the worst thing you can say to reluctant readers'"
In other non-review news, the Times is holding a Young Bond competition.
Toby Clements reviews children's fantasy for the Telegraph.
Elizabeth Ward reviews new non-fiction titles for the Washington Post.
More kid-authored reviews at the Chicago Tribune.
Susan Perren considers five new books for children in the Globe and Mail, including Lynne Truss's The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why You Can't Manage Without Apostrophes! and In the Tracks of a Panda, by Nick Dowson.
Ayanna Wilson reviews three new books about teen transitions for The Detroit Free Press.
This just in (thanks, Kelly F.): Susan Carpenter reviews A Crooked Kind of Perfect, by Linda Urban, in the Los Angeles Times.
