Amelia Bedelia remains a tried and true standby.
The Princess in Black series is pretty much the most popular with girls right now, but I like Henry and Mudge and Cam Jansen, as well as the other ones.
There are some early reader quasi graphic novels that are new called Unicorn and Yeti and I LOVE THEM.
Also, Little Robot, Peter & Ernesto (sloths) and Baby Mouse. The young graphic novels are particularly awesome because with the visual support, even non-readers can follow the action and kids tend to go through them OVER and OVER again, even if they're not *quite* reading on their own yet.
Yasmin is super adorbs, too.
Hugo winners are out!
Congratulations to
A Memory Called Empire,
both for winning and for being the only novel on the list I've read all through(I started two others but didn't finish, and haven't had a chance to read
Gideon the Ninth
yet).
And sympathies to our own FW, who placed but didn't win in two categories. Just wait til next year, as Charlie Brown says.
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Harrow the Ninth, y'all. It is something else.
And in a pretty striking change of pace: The Honjin Murders is excellent. I wasn't sure what to expect, classic mysteries are not always all that satisfying, but this one has me hoping that a lot more of the Kindaichi stories get translated into English. Impossible crime, genius detective, family drama, '40s Japan, references to other mystery stories - if this is the kind of thing you like, you'll like this.
Courtesy of Mary Robinette Kowal, here are transcripts of Hugo winner speeches.
The Space Between Worlds, you all.
Also, I loved The Midnight Bargain. It comes out October 13. Regency speed dating meets sorcery and feminism.
