A happy (belated) birthday to An Na!
Today I'm giving my Vermont College MFA summer residency lecture, "Rewriting the Masters: Retellings & Reinventions of Classic Stories in Modern Young Adult Literature."
Novels highlighted: A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone (Wendy Lamb/Random House, 2006)(PDF excerpt)(author interview); Beast by Donna Jo Napoli (Simon Pulse, 2002); Carolina Autumn by Carol Lynch Williams (Delacorte, 2000); The Da Vinci Cod by Chris Riddell (Candlewick, 2006); A Door Near Here by Heather Quarles (Laurel Leaf, 2000)(excerpt); Fairest by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins, 2006)(author interview); Good Girls by Laura Ruby (HarperCollins, 2006)(author interview); and Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum, 1999)(Simon Pulse, 2006)(excerpt); and Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Candlewick, 2007).
Related Resources
Attorney Interview: Aimée Bissonette on Law and Publishing from Cynsations.
Retelling Stories, Framing Culture : Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature by John Stephens (Garland, 1998). Note: pricey at $135; perhaps hit the library rather than bookstore.
See also: The Children's Literature Network; The Author's Guild.
