Totally psyched about this
I really strive to write strong girl characters–I love to watch my lead girls blossom over the course of the novel and become more confident, less fearful, brave enough to be who they really are, etc. It’s always what I hope for myself on a daily basis, so it’s fun to give that assignment to my characters and see how they work it out.
So I was completely thrilled to get an e-mail this weekend saying Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature has been chosen for the 2008 list of the Amelia Bloomer Project. Here’s who they are:
Under the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association, the Amelia Bloomer Project strives to promote feminism to today’s youth. Every year during the American Library Association Midwinter Conference, the Amelia Bloomer Project Committee creates a list of books from the books published the previous year that best embody feminism.
The list presents well-written and well-illustrated books with strong feminist messages published in the past 18 months recommended for young people from birth through eighteen years of age. The Amelia Bloomer Project creates a list of quality fiction and nonfiction titles that affirm positive roles for girls and women. (Emphasis mine, because I love those phrases.)
I’M SO HAPPY! Thank you, members of the Amelia Bloomer Project! I am truly honored to be part of such a great list.
Rock on!
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This is AWESOME! Congratulations! And my anti-spam word is HUGS! How appropriate! Lots of exclamation points for you!
Thank you, Molly! I’m all exclamation points about it, too!
Nice going,Robin! Congrats to you and to your leading lady Mena,for being such a good role model for others to follow.
Wahoo! So well deserved!
FTFotSRRTotALA just doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as easily as one would like, but YAY FEMALE BODYBUILDERS!!!
That’s what you mean by strong women, right?
Thank you, Lady T and Vivian! Yay!
Patrick, exactly. As usual, your insight astounds me.
That is awesome, Robin! Congratulations. What a wonderful list to be part of.
Congratulations to you and Mena! You totally deserve it all.
YES!
Congrats!
Brilliant news! Couldn’t have happened to a more-deserving book!
Congratulations, Robin. You deserve it.
Yahoo, Robin!! Great news and congratulations
Thank you, Jen, Felicity, Little Willow, Lady S, Judy, and Kelly! I really appreciate that!
OMG, Robin that’s awsome! I’m so proud of you! lol that’s so great! Congratulations! Also I think it’s great you like writing strong female charicters! I think a lot of writers don’t do that and girls need postive examples! (even though I do watch the gossip girl show, but I would never do any of that stuff and those arn’t the girls I look up to!)
*hug*
Very big and fabulouso news.
Feminism ain’t a dirty word!!!
Wahoooo!!!!
Kudos!!! Thanks for sharing news of your honors. We all know the book is great already, and it’s awesome that those who make these decisions know it too!
Woot!
Has the full list gone public yet? I’m curious to see if DIFFERENT LIKE COCO and a gutsy little picture book broad named Emily Brown made the cut. If so, they’re in great company
Dylan, I watch Gossip Girl, too. It’s research (*cough*). Okay, I watch it because I get hooked on teen soap operas–and since those people are nothing like me or anyone else I know, it’s like a sociology experiment for me. Do you think people like that really exist?
Liz, you said it about feminism. Write on!
Thank you, Kelley!
Sarah, if you click on that MySpace page for the Amelia Bloomer Project, you can see their slide show of the covers of the books on this year’s list. I don’t know when they’ll post the official list, but you can look there in the meantime.
Well, of COURSE they had to pick your book. Duh!
Congrats!
I passed my copy on to Missy, the 15 year old daughter of my friend Suze, and apparently Missy blew through it in less than a day. I think that says something right there. And Suze has decided that she’s next in line for reading it!
Is there a complete list up yet? I found 2007.
YAY! *jumopsupanddown* lol Oh…yeah…totally professional! XD yeah I get that I do too! >_
Congratulations, Robin! That’s wonderful!