For the few who are still on summer break, here are our last-gasp, fun summer reading recommendations. For the youngest readers: Rotten Ralph by Jack Gantos and illustrated by Nicole Rubel. Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Even after more than 30 years, Rotten Ralph remains fresh and sassy and readers will thrill to his antics, which are… Read more »
Jack Gantos
Funny Books Rule! Why Kids Love Them
I was so pleased that Jack Gantos’s DEAD END IN NORVELT won the Newbery medal this year. Because it’s funny! Humor doesn’t always get the respect and prizes it deserves. Newberys have gone to humorous books only a couple of times in the last fifty years, mainly since 1999*. We tend to assume that if… Read more »
