And the 2011 Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature goes to...The Queen's Thief series!!!

[teenareena.livejournal.com]

Dear Sounisian,

Let's celebrate!!!

http://www.mythsoc.org/news/award-winners-2011/

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[attackfish.livejournal.com]

*riotous cheering*

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Yay! Online party anyone? XD

[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

*does a happy dance*

[tencups-i-swear.livejournal.com]

*Sits in a corner blowing up balloons*

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

Your icon is, in the words of my little brother, the bomb diggedy diggedy.

[tencups-i-swear.livejournal.com]

I am very glad. :D

[chachic.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Woohoo! *throws confetti*

[inkasrain.livejournal.com]

Hurray!!

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

Oh that is so cool.

Congrats, Ms. Turner! :D

[m-chant.livejournal.com]

YEEEEEESSSSSSSS! Kudos!

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

This is totally awesome! I was hoping they would win!

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

YAYYY!!! Can you believe I didn't even know what this was? I'm going to go read that link to see what it's all about....

Exciting!

I find it interesting, reading the rules below, that series become eligible the year of their release, but Queen's Thief isn't finished yet. (Also, they're using the unofficial series name as if it's official. How interesting!)

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

I noticed the official use of the unofficial name as well...but still, what an awesome society. They have such great taste!

Planet Narnia, Too

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations, Mrs. Turner! You deserve it!


I was pleased to see as well that Planet Narnia, by Michael Ward, won for Inklings Studies. I have read it, and it is an excellent book. Ward offers a whole new way to look at and understand Narnia that simultaneously makes you say "why didn't anyone ever notice that before?" because it seems so obvious once someone points it out. The basic idea is that each of the Narnia books draws its key symbolism from one of the planets (and its various attributes) in the Medieval cosmology: LWW-Jupiter; Prince Caspian-Mars, etc. And if that intrigues you at all, I totally recommend that you read it (or at least look up his theory online). The book is scholarly but accessible, and kept my attention the whole way through.

And looking at the list of Mythopoeic Award winners and finalists in the various categories makes me realize that I need to look up and add yet more books to my "To Read" list...

--Handmaiden

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

THAT IS AWESOME! Congratulations, mwt, and thanks for spreading the word, teenareena.

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

Congrats to mwt and YAY!


icecream sundays for all!

=D

[filkferengi]

My spouse says, "Are you wooting again?"

Yes, we are!

note: Lois McMaster Bujold won multiple Mythopoeic Awards and then strongly recommended mwt, who has now won. That's a circle of life we can all enjoy.