Author: Tanita Davis

tanita s. davis is a writer and avid reader who prefers books to most things in the world, including people. That's ...pretty much it, she's very awkward and she can't even tell jokes. She is, however, the author of eleven books, including Serena Says, Partly Cloudy, Go Figure, Henri Weldon, The Science of Friendship and the Coretta Scott King honored Mare's War. Look for her new MG, book Berry Parker Doesn't Catch Crushes September 2025 from HarperCollins Childrens' Books.

October 24, 2014

KidLitCon 2014: A Retrospective, Part II – Reflections on Floating Heads

The one and only Floating Head of Shannon Hale! It rocks! It talks! It silences its viewers! I didn’t take as many notes as…

October 21, 2014

Dear Author, Whose Book I Read and May Have Negatively Reviewed, Your Anger Will Not Silence Me.

By now, the flurry of comments on the Guardian essay of last week have turned into their own weather system. I won’t link to…

October 17, 2014

KidlitCon 2014: Notepad Forum, Part ii ~ The Weekend Word: “Appropriation”

This weekend’s word is actually a phrase – Cultural Appropriation. I’ve blogged a bit about KidLitCon over the last week, and talked about how…

October 15, 2014

KidlitCon, 2014: NOTEPAD FORUM, part i.

Charlotte Taylor, our program director, has clear Leadership Skillz, and came up with a great way to keep us thoughtful during those brief moments…

October 14, 2014

KidLitCon, 2014: A Retrospective, Part I

KidLitCon: Brought to you by these fine people. l-r: Maureen Kearney, seated. Standing, me (aka tanita), Jen Robinson, Charlotte Taylor, Melissa Fox, Reshama Deshmukh,…

October 14, 2014

TURNING PAGES: NIGHT SKY by SUZANNE & MELANIE BROCKMANN

It’s not every day you read a book that reads like… a movie. Though the book took a little more than ninety minutes to…

October 11, 2014

TURNING PAGES: H2O by VIRGINIA BERGIN

“Literally translated, the word apocalypse means “a revelation,” or “uncovering,” as in uncovering of the truth. (From the Greek: apo, meaning un, and calypto,…

October 10, 2014

Poetry Friday/TURNING PAGES: TO THIS DAY by Shane Koyczan

because there’s something in side you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit you build a cast around your…

October 8, 2014

TURNING PAGES: THIRD DAUGHTER by SUSAN KAYE QUINN

If you do a search on “South Asian Steampunk,” you get pictures of some fab cosplay, but buptkus on books. (I actually found a…

October 7, 2014

TURNING PAGES: SILVERBLIND, by TINA CONNOLLY

I absolutely adored Ironskin by Tina Connolly, found Copperhead a mite disturbing, with its inhabited faces and blindly privileged ladies, and wasn’t sure where…

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