Ramblings on Librarianship, Technology, and Academia

I had this whole draft post written out which explained how it came to be that

• bestselling YA author Kristin Cashore;
• children’s lit professor Deborah Kaplan, a.k.a. yours truly;
• children’s lit critic Rebecca Rabinowitz; and
• assistant agent at the Sheldon Fogelman Agency Amy Stern

came to record ourselves sitting around for several hours one wonderful afternoon talking about feminist readings of E. Lockhart's young adult novel The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, but Amy's introduction to the videos is so thorough and informative that I can't improve on it.

All I can say is that I will forever be grateful to the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature (where, full disclosure, I teach) for introducing me to these wonderful people¹ and for giving us all the tools and the support to think about literature in so many interesting, productive ways.

Go watch the videos.

(Hey, Kristin just posted, too!)

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