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There's this guy, David Almond. He wrote some books. One year, the first, Skellig, was up for Childrens' Mythopoeic, losing, correctly, to The Folk Keeper, by Billingsley. I didn't vote on these, only on the Adults' list, but these were the two best, and The Folk Keeper beat Skellig by a hair. Skellig does one annoying emotional cheat, but the dialogue is Buffy-smart (the first 3 seasons of Buffy, at its best), and quite impressive.
So, when I took out a book on this year's Adult list, I picked up Kit's Wilderness, his second book. And it's kind of hard to say what it's about, exactly. I mean, it's good, and it's about stories and what they do, and why we need them, and a bit about initiations, sort of, and about death and what kids think they need to know about it, and about what grown ups understand and what they don't, and about history, and, um, lots of things.
It's about the kind of stuff that you can't really put into words, that if you could, the words would sound so dumb, even if they were the right ones. So, you sort of circle around it, whatever it is, never quite saying it. But it's there.
So, anyway, I liked the book.
So, when I took out a book on this year's Adult list, I picked up Kit's Wilderness, his second book. And it's kind of hard to say what it's about, exactly. I mean, it's good, and it's about stories and what they do, and why we need them, and a bit about initiations, sort of, and about death and what kids think they need to know about it, and about what grown ups understand and what they don't, and about history, and, um, lots of things.
It's about the kind of stuff that you can't really put into words, that if you could, the words would sound so dumb, even if they were the right ones. So, you sort of circle around it, whatever it is, never quite saying it. But it's there.
So, anyway, I liked the book.