![]() Give us your Twitter sales pitch: convince us to read Peter Nimble & His Fantastic Eyes in 140 characters or less! This is why I am much more inclined toward the broader tradition of “children’s literature,” which includes all of the above. ![]() I agree! (You might even have noticed that I avoided the term altogether in the previous question!) I think it’s a mistake to create genres based on reader age because no two readers are the same. Middle grade can be such a murky moniker, lurking somewhere between children’s lit and YA. When reading a great work of children’s literature, one is forced to read every moment as both a child and an adult, and the tension between these two points of view is where the magic happens. It depends on how you define success, but for me, a successful children’s book is one that inhabits the dual orbits of childhood and adulthood. What do you think makes a successful middle grade novel? You’ll hear me gush more about it in my review tomorrow, but today, Jonathan stops by for an excellent Q&A and some off the cuff drawing. Lately, that book for me is Peter Nimble & His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier. When you read a book that is just ZOMG, this is perfection! that you can’t keep it to yourself and blather about it to friends, family, and perfect strangers alike.
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