Reporter: "What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?" Sendak: "I would tell them to go to hell. That's a question I will not tolerate." Reporter: "Because kids can handle it?"

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YA author Justine Larbalestier has gone public with her disappointment over her US publisher Bloomsbury's cover art for her forthcoming novel Liar. Specifically, Justine is upset that the cover shows a white girl, and the book is about a black girl.

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Late effects, stupid cancer and one young adult survivor's take on the state of the state of cancer.

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Uglies and Orwell

Uglies is one crazy cocktail of a novel. Part teenage coming-of-age drama, part adrenaline pumping rebel espionage adventure ala Jack London's The Iron Heel and garnished with a modest slice of Orwellian dissident political analysis thrown in.

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A 10-year-old girl will be presented with a national literary award this fall in New York for her moving novel about dolphins and Hurricane Katrina.

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And so now the hurly-burly's done, the battle's lost and won — the Battle of Hogwarts, that is — and all the secrets are out of the Sorting Hat. Those who bet Harry Potter would die lost their money; the boy who lived turned out to be exactly that.

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Personally, I am stumped by this development. Behind the circulation desk, clerking it at the library, I see this same scenario play out with dozens of young black girls every Saturday and Sunday.

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The Dumbledore Paradox

It's that time of year again: J.K. Rowling is getting further into the writing of the latest "Harry Potter" book and (like clockwork) has released tantalizing information about what we can expect.

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