G. Neri Archives » Bookology Magazine https://www.bookologymagazine.com/tag/g-neri Children's Literature Sun, 07 Mar 2021 16:48:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69996714 The Sameness of Sheep https://www.bookologymagazine.com/big-green-pocketbook/the-sameness-of-sheep https://www.bookologymagazine.com/big-green-pocketbook/the-sameness-of-sheep#comments Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:00:12 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=12499 Once, when I discussed my work-in-progress, middle-grade novel with my agent, I told her the character was eleven. “Make her twelve,” she said. “But eleven-year-olds aren’t the same as twelve-year-olds,” I protested. “Those are different ages.” “Make her twelve,” she insisted. “The editor will ask you to change it anyway.”
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]]> https://www.bookologymagazine.com/big-green-pocketbook/the-sameness-of-sheep/feed 4 12499 Horse Stories in Children’s Literature https://www.bookologymagazine.com/timelines/bookstorm-timeline-horse-stories-in-childrens-literature Sun, 01 Mar 2015 13:00:36 +0000 https://bookologymagazine.com/?p=2640 Leroy Ninker Saddles Up rides on the withers of a great many previous books. A timeline is only an at-a-glance historical survey, of course; still, we created this one to highlight some of the seminal books in a long history of horse stories. 
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