October 27, 2010, presentation to Humble librarians

1. with
Teri S. Lesesne
(rhymes with insane)
SHSU
Department of Library Science
SOME NEW HOT BOOKS FOR 2010

2. Wiesner Strikes Again!

3. GN and History

4. Nonfiction Winner

5. Milieuand its function in writer’s life

6. Series Stinker!

7. Ladder Rung

8. FairyTale Reimaginings

9. Such Characters!

10. I Spy!

11. Dark Thoughts

12. History Redux

13. Storytelling

14. Funny Fertile Future

15. New Christmas Classic

16. Language that Sings

17. Funny Guysand a Girl, Too!

18. Autistic Characters Find Loveand Acceptance

19. Metafiction (and censorship)

20. Nonfiction Wonder!

21. Upand Away

22. Hits the Funnybone

23. Dystopic much?

24. Read it, you must

25. Wondla-ful!

26. Attention Span

27. Get Graphic

28. Heratbreaker

29. Zen and Halloween?

30. Meet Zora Neale Hurston

31. YOU will be stunned

32. Riveting and revolting

33. Adding context

34. Historyand sciencecomealive

35. War Stories

36. Whata pair!

37. Looking back at unwinnablewars

38. Getting it right

39. Science fiction parexcellence

40. Tween Triumph

41. Biography Reimagined

42. EZ readerwith Ommph!

43. Chilling

44. Interrupted Narrative

45. On the Road Again

46. End of trilogy

47. Middleof Trilogy

48. Novel in Verseand Biography

49. Anthology for Guys

50. Incorrigibly Funny

51. Whata Pearl!

52. Definitelya Keeper

53. Mirror Magic

54. HistoryAlive

55. Triumphant

56. A Grimm Tale

57. Whowill win?

58. Language Play

59. NBA Finalist

60. Questions, Anyone?

61. Funny men

62. Bestwriting book ever

63. Too funny forwords

64. manifesto
To you zealots and bigots and false
patriots who live in fear of discourse.
You screamers and banners and burners
who would force books
off shelves in your brand name
of greater good.

65. You say you’re afraid for children,
innocents ripe for corruption
by perversion or sorcery on the page.
But sticks and stones do break
bones, and ignorance is no armor.
You do not speak for me,
and will not deny my kids magic
in favor of miracles.

66. You say you’re afraid for America,
the red, white and blue corroded
by terrorists, socialists, the sexually
confused. But we are a vast quilt
of patchwork cultures and multi-gendered
identities. You cannot speak for those
whose ancestors braved
different seas.

67. You say you’re afraid for God,
the living word eroded by Muhammed
and Darwin and Magdalene.
But the omnipotent sculptor of heaven
and earth designed intelligence.
Surely you dare not speak
for the father, who opens
his arms to all.

68. A word to the unwise.
Torch every book.
Char every page.
Burn every word to ash.
Ideas are incombustible.
And therein lies your real fear.
— Ellen HopkinS,
bestselling author of
Crank , Fallen, Identical, and more

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