{"id":10930,"date":"2010-08-17T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hereville.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2010-08-17T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T08:54:09","slug":"incredibly-kind-review-of-hereville-in-school-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10930","title":{"rendered":"Incredibly Kind Review of Hereville in School Library Journal!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the School Library Journal<\/em> website<\/a>, blogger Elizabeth Bird<\/a> posted an incredibly kind review of Hereville<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cYet another troll-fighting 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl,\u201d says the byline. Well seriously. How was I supposed to pass that up? I\u2019d grabbed a copy of Hereville<\/em> at an American Library Association conference along with a whole host of other books. I don\u2019t think I even gave it half a glance at the time. Just nabbed, stuffed, and scooted. It was only back in the comfort of my hotel room as I repacked my bags that the byline got my attention. I sat down for a quick look. Twenty minutes later I was still reading, with no intention at all of repacking anything until I was done. In my experience, fantasy novels for children do not like to involve religion in any way, shape, or form. And children\u2019s graphic novels? Puh-leeze. You\u2019re as likely to find a copy of Babymouse<\/a><\/em> wax rhapsodic on the topic of organized religion as you are a copy of Harry Potter<\/a><\/em>. So to read Barry Deutsch\u2019s book is to experience a mild marvel. There is religion, fantasy, knitting, some of the best art I\u2019ve seen since The Secret Science Alliance<\/a><\/em>, and a story that actually makes you sit up and feel something. This is like nothing I\u2019ve ever encountered before, and I think it\u2019s truly remarkable. Without a doubt, this is the best graphic novel of 2010 for kids. Bar none. […]<\/p>\n

Confession: Truth be told, there is very little in this book I do not like. What\u2019s more, it offers me, a children\u2019s librarian, a sneaky way to introduce kids to religions and creeds they might not otherwise have any exposure to in a format they already love. Bereft of any kind of stereotyping you might name, Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword could only make me angry if it failed to produce a sequel in the future. Until then, we\u2019ll just have to be content with this. A remarkable little book and, I guarantee, like nothing else you have on your bookstore, library, or personal shelves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s a lot more to her review, but you’ll have to click through<\/a> to read it.<\/p>\n

(Click here for information about preordering Hereville<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the School Library Journal website, blogger Elizabeth Bird posted an incredibly kind review of Hereville: \u201cYet another troll-fighting 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl,\u201d says the byline. Well seriously. How was I supposed to pass that up? I\u2019d grabbed a copy of Hereville at an American Library Association conference along with a whole host of other […] Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hereville","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}