From: fairrosa
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:39:19 -0800 (PST)

I just discovered omissions from two other major lists:

School Library Journal's Best Books of 2003 and The Horn Book Fanfare List

(Although both journals gave it favorable reviews -- no stars, mind you!)

So... aparantly a finely crafted work that is not only widely loved by librarians and teachers (and not just for its usefulness in teaching a literary unit) in the field BUT adored vehemently by child readers/listeners, why is The Tale of Despereaux so overlooked (or even "scorned"?) by children's literature experts??

I am really curious...

-- fairrosa
Received on Sun 18 Jan 2004 10:39:19 PM CST