Stead's

Stead's unexpected and moving story of girl living in Manhattan in the 1970's was an in-house favorite last summer, and was selected as the Amazon Best Book of July Spotlight pick.

Best of 2009 2010

In 2010, Jonathan Franzen reignited interest in Christina Stead's "masterpiece" with a hymning appreciation in the New York Times.

The Man Who Loved Children – review 2011

And while they rightly avoid Stead's unethical methods while accurately portraying the myriad obstacles to freeing slaves, they fail at a different challenge.

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: Britain's Long Fight Against Slavery Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism 2011

The children's book of the summer is Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me (see my interview with the author here), and I'll be glad when you've all read it so we can talk about it.

I'll Be Seeing You . . . Roger Sutton 2009

What marks Stead's novel out is the intensity of her savage, visceral depiction of family life; her knowledge of its enchantments and its confounding elasticity – even Henny experiences "absences of hatred, aimless lulls that all long wars must have" – and, as the poet Randall Jarrell observed in a preface commended by both Franzen and Carter, its outrageous, "immoderate" oddity.

The Man Who Loved Children – review 2011

Franzen might seem an unlikely champion of this 1940 novel, for while Stead's subject – the dysfunctional family unit – is the one in which Franzen also deals, Stead draws from it not a humane comedy, but an ambiguously tragic, warped, picaresque tale, riddled with diseased humour.

The Man Who Loved Children – review 2011

And while they rightly avoid Stead's unethical methods while accurately portraying the myriad obstacles to freeing slaves, they fail at a different challenge.

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: Britain's Long Fight Against Slavery Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism 2011

And while they rightly avoid Stead's unethical methods while accurately portraying the myriad obstacles to freeing slaves, they fail at a different challenge.

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism: Britain's Long Fight Against Slavery Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism 2011

The children's book of the summer is Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me (see my interview with the author here), and I'll be glad when you've all read it so we can talk about it.

Archive 2009-08-01 Roger Sutton 2009

Stead's intricate, time-traveling narrative set in 1970s Manhattan, which was inspired in part by Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time," won the John Newbery Medal for best children's book.

The Latest Newbery And Caldecott Award Winners 2010