Who's Reading What on Wednesdays?

Each week, Early Career Committee members are asked to recommend a book published by a house other than their own. Here are their (anonymous) picks...

Who Done It? | April 3, 2013

What do you get when over eighty of today’s most talented children’s book authors go to a party to celebrate their editor, Mildew? Murder! Fortunately, Jon Scieszcka is on hand to ask ‘Who Done It?’ What follows is a hilarious …

Fuse | March 27, 2013

In a genre typified by brutality, Julianna Baggott’s Pure trilogy manages to stand a doll’s head above the rest. After detonations wipe out most of the planet, those who survive are left irreparably damaged down to their DNA, scarred, and …

Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves & Other Female Villains | March 20, 2013

In 26 snappy profiles, the mother-daughter team of Yolen and Stemple examine infamous women throughout history – from Delilah and Jezebel to Lizzie Borden and Bonnie Parker. These nonfiction short stories are masked as delicious crime drama, and each concludes …

Wilfred | March 13, 2013

Every child wants a special friend growing up. Me? I always wanted an elephant companion. In Ryan Higgins’ new picture book, a lonesome giant only wants one thing: a friend. Drawn in pen and ink and digitally colored, readers follow …

Beautiful Creatures | March 6, 2013

A boy who yearns for the world outside his small southern town falls in love with a young witch (called a “Caster” in this universe) who will soon be claimed by The Light or The Dark. It’s a familiar love …

The Arrival | February 27, 2013

In this wordless graphic novel, a man travels to a faraway city seeking better job prospects and a safer home for his family. The immigrant struggles to find his footing in the foreign environment, where he doesn’t understand the language, …

Dark Lord: The Early Years | February 20, 2013

The Dark Lord is the supreme ruler of the Darklands, commander of Orc hordes, master of the Nightgaunts, and destroyer of all things good. Or at least he was until his foe, the White Wizard, transported him to the human …

Shadowfell | February 13, 2013

After losing her mother as a toddler, watching her brother die in front of her from a battle wound, bearing witness to the psychological torture of her once-strong grandmother, and being sold off by her father for a paltry sum, …

Oh No! Not Again! (Or How I Built a Time Machine To Save History) (Or At Least My History Grade) | February 6, 2013

When the unnamed protagonist of the follow up to ‘Oh No! Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World’ gets a question wrong on her history test, she knows there’s only one thing to do: build a time machine and …

What’s Left of Me | January 30, 2013

What does it mean to exist? And how far would you go to stay alive? These are the questions posed by Kat Zhang’s What’s Left of Me, the intricate story of Eva and Addie, two souls woven together in one …