BOOK NEWS FOR SEPT 27: YOUNG ADULT FICTION,SUE DENT AND MORE

Why adults read young adult and kids’ literature

Source: sify.com

A Kansas State University professor has said that it should come as no surprise that more recent young adult and children’s literature such as Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” and Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline” – are also popular with adults.

“Children’s literature is literature,” Philip Nel Kansas State University professor of English and director of the children’s literature graduate program said.

“It may be written for people with less height and less vocabulary, but it’s still literature.”

The phenomenon of adults reading literature targeted toward younger readers is nothing new, Nel said. He pointed to Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” which were read by both children and adults when the books were published in the late 19th century.

“Adults will read a book even if it’s boring after the first 50 pages if the reviews say it’s a good book. I don’t think children will. I don’t think they should either,” Nel said.

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Dent to speak to writers guild

Source: hattiesburgamerican.com

Christian vampire novelist Sue Dent will be the guest speaker for the Hattiesburg Chapter of the Mississippi Writers Guild at 1 p.m. Oct. 2 at Main Street Books in Hattiesburg.

Dent’s books “Never Ceese” and sequel “Forever Richard” were nominated for the 2009 Pluto Award. “Never Ceese” was the American Christian Fiction Writers Association club choice of the month of May 2007 and also 2007 Bram Stoker short-listed for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.

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Author Orson Scott Card to make appearance in Newport News

Source: dailypress.com

Orson Scott Card is best known as a prolific science fiction/fantasy author, but said he considers himself a playwright at heart.

Card, 59, will be in Newport News at 7 p.m. on Oct. 28, at the Ferguson Center for the Arts, as part of the Virginia Peninsula Literary Consortium series. Free tickets will be available at local libraries on Tuesday.

Responding to a set of questions from the Daily Press via e-mail, Card also discussed the possibility of “Ender’s Game,” his most well-known novel, becoming a movie.

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