Book Goodness

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Hello friends…

When I blitzed about All the World a few weeks ago, I shared some of the reviews we’d gotten so far.
Since then, there have been a few more.

The book is out now, so some of the happiest buzz  just comes from people I know, seeing it on the shelf at their local booksellers. Sometimes they send me photos and since I’m just sitting here in my little nook in Austin, Texas, it thrills me no end.

Still, I’ll keep that sorta stuff to myself since you’d be understandably dis-interested in what my mother-in-law or second cousin or college roomate is snapping with her iphone.

Instead, I’ll share the bigger, happier bits of news that my editor shares with me:

All the World is the only picture book on this fall’s Top Ten Kids’ Indie Next List.

This is what I did when I heard about that: !!!!!!!!

Because the Indie Next List is by and for independent booksellers, and you know how we feel about independent booksellers. Seated at the same table as librarians when the extra big and caramely desserts come around. Really. They are our people, people…

Also, we were given a starred review in Publishers’ Weekly. It was very, very, very nice and said things like my text and Marla’s art "create an empathic, welcoming whole."

The people who write these reviews make poetry of their jobs, I swear they do.
It’s really moving and inspiring to me.

The Publishers’ Weekly review was the book’s fourth star — which feels like an honest to goodness constellation — and it’s a daunting honor to be included on such careful, thoughtful lists.

(Other reviews for All the World include this one in Horn Book (I cried)).

20 Responses to “Book Goodness”

  2. saralholmes

    Yay! For all this goodness.

    And I hope YOU are seated at the same table as librarians and indie book sellers when the” extra big and caramel-y desserts come around”

  3. annastan

    Congrats! All the praise is well deserved. I got a copy of the book the day it came out and I was so excited to share it with the writing for children class I teach. I’m sure my students will love reading it!