Sonderbooks #46: Book Reviews by Sondra Eklund

Sonderbooks #46

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February 1, 2003

Great news! The 2003 Newbery Award went to

****Crispin: The Cross of Lead, by Avi

Nonfiction

****Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life, edited by Barnaby Conrad and Monte Schulz
****The Best of Lopi, compiled by Susan Mills and Norah Gaughan

****The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution, by Frederick Hahn, Michael R. Eades, M D, and Mary Dan Eades, M D
***Bill Bryson's African Diary, by Bill Bryson
** Before the Flood, by Ian Wilson

Fiction

****The Four Feathers, by A. E. W. Mason
****A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

****Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie

Young Adult Fiction

****A Wizard Alone, by Diane Duane
****Crossing the Panther's Path, by Elizabeth Alder

****The Frog Princess, by E. D. Baker

***Once Upon a Marigold, by Jean Ferris

Children's Fiction

****The Rumpelstiltskin Problem, by Vivian Vande Velde

***What a Year, by Tomie de Paola

Old Favorite

(Fiction):

****Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen

Picture Book Pick

****Gossie & Gertie, by Olivier Dunrea

Quotation of the Week

“It’s exciting when you’ve written something that you know is good!”
--Snoopy, in Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life

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