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Leslie Santamaria's avatar

I like that you value both graphic novels and, well, non-graphic novels. I think we need both to reach all kinds of readers. My middle grade debut coming out with Charlesbridge, Moon Girl, will be "lightly illustrated," and I'm very excited about that. I hope that helps it to appeal to a wide range of readers.

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K.M. Carroll's avatar

Re: kids wanting to laugh. A friend gave us a bunch of old kids books, and one of them was Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl. It's basically a book of fractured fairytales. My teen daughter started reading them aloud (MOM THIS BOOK HAS SWEARS IN IT) and we have laughed and laughed for days. I had no idea Dahl wrote anything like this, and it's probably the funniest thing ever. I mean, it's kind of twisted and dark (Goldilocks gets eaten by the baby bear because she ate his breakfast, Red Riding Hood pulls out a gun, shoots the wolf, and turns his skin into a cloak, etc.) but it's also soooo funny. I'd love to find more books like that, but I'm afraid that these kind of fractured fairytales would NEVER be written today.

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