Posted by Emily Goldsher You know, literary types are very quick to wax poetic about the books of their youth—Alice in Wonderland, The Little Prince, The Wizard of Oz—but I find the common absence of Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth from bookish bookshelves a prime offense.
JK Rowling and Stephenie Meyer — Meet Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce did something in her early work that JK Rowling and Stephenie Meyer never accomplished: she wrote books about female heroes for girls that wanted to be heroes too.