Although two critical studies of two different authors may be regarded, at first sight, as unlikely bedfellows to reside within one book review, Lois Stover's Jacqueline Woodson and Suzanne Reid's Virginia Euwer Wolff do fit together...each offers a sound biographical-critical author study characteristic of the Scarecrow Studies. Each draws reasonable conclusions about the relationship between writers' lives and the texts ... Read morethey write and each is passionate about her subject, a woman author who is highly regarded as a 'writer to read' in young adult literature....In each of these Scarecrow Studies in Young Literature, the authors meet the series expectations of demonstrating how a writer's life and attitudes influence the writer's craft and how the craft has evolved in each successive novel. Jacqueline Woodson and Virginia Euwer Wolff have each produced a body of work that is distinctive in its contribution to literature written for young adults.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
This title is not only a useful tool for educators but also an outstanding example for students of how a writer such as Reid can examine and tie together the multitude of threads that are woven throughout a single author's entire body of work.
VOYA
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