From: Aline Pereira <aline_at_papertigers.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:25:31 -0800

Mitali Perkin's "First Daughter" books come to mind as an example. The main character, Sameera (Sparow) Righton, whose father is running for president, is a blogger not only in the books, but in real life as well. She blogged about the presidential candidates and their children during the campaign and had a quite a following.


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On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Ernie Cox wrote:

I am hearing much discussion among fans of the Maximum Ride series about their readings of Fang's blog. The growth of character blogs is an intriguing part of multiplatform storytelling because the characters continue to develop beyond the confines of the official narrative under the authorship of publishers/editors/and sometimes the author. It is really interesting to see young readers "interact" with the character through blog commenting.

http://maximumride.blogspot.com/

What are others seeing in this area?

Ernie Cox School Librarian St. Timothy's School Raleigh, NC twitter: erniec
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