From: DAJ <daj9999>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:37:45 -0800 (PST)

-- Mary Ann Gilpatrick
<MGilpatrick at ci.walla-walla.wa.us> wrote:

> *Regarding the Fountain* has what I would call a
> nonlinear narrative. So
> do *Making Up Megaboy* and *Monster.*
  As do a number of Paul Fleischman's books, especially
_Bull Run_, _Whirligig_, and _Seek_. I continue to admire the Newbery Committee that recognized the brilliance in his _Joyful Noise_ in the 1980s, again signalling that experiments with narrative voice were worthy of recognition.

(And, to bring this back to _Criss Cross_, I'm still pondering whether what I remember about it seemed postmodern. It did remind me that longer books seem to have come back into fashion, and not just for fantasy and sf.)

DAJ


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