YA Wednesday: Twilight's Saga Continues...

By Heidi

Twilight just cannot stay out of the news. First, there's the New Moon poster. (MTV.com)



Then, The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Biz Blog talked to Edward Pattinson about the movie version of New Moon:

I think it would have been a bit cheesy if it had just stayed as a voiceover part as my character is a voice in her head in the second book. They've shot these hallucination bits of the film. You're playing a figment of Bella's imagination and I was trying to do it in a really 2-D kind of way. I hope it doesn't come out flat and boring (laughs).

He also confirmed that the Breaking Dawn movie is definitely happening--and that he'll be in it.

Quick links...

Jacket Whys compares apples to apples.

Read Roger links to an essay by Farah Mendlesohn,
"The Campaign for Shiny Futures", about why SF for teens gets no respect.

Walter Dean Myers, author of Dopesick, Bad Boy: A Memoir, and many other YA novels, is up for a 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award. Walter Dean Myers was chosen, along with Eric Carle, because he is "an American cultural and literary icon." Winners will be announced in March 2010. (School Library Journal)

Reviewer X's weekly "Pub Story" (i.e., first publication story) features Elizabeth Scott talking about Bloom.

Happy reading.--Heidi