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References about M. E. Kerr

I am compiling this page for those of you who might want to research more about M. E. Kerr and Mary James for whatever reason, i.e., school, general interest.  I have added a new Reviews Section which I hope you will find helpful. There are excerpts from many of the citations listed below. If you want the full article, you should be able to track it down through your local library. Some links lead to sites with reviews. Some links might lead to the publication web site. You'll see that some articles are available from these sites free of charge, but others might require a fee. So I recommend checking your school and public libraries first before ordering anything. I'll also list some sites that provide article retrieval services - usually for a fee. Also, check out the links page. Some of those sites might have reviews and critical examinations of works. Click here to look at Links. If you know of anything you think I should add to the list, please let me know by clicking here: WEBMASTER!  Here are the references separated into two sections: Books (in alphabetical order) and Other:


Books

CHOOSE BOOK TITLE:
Blood on My Forehead
Deliver Us From Evie
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack
Fell
Fell Back
Fell Down
Frankenlouse
Gentlehands
"Hello," I Lied
I Stay Near You
If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?
Is That You, Miss Blue?
Little Little
Linger
Love is a Missing Person
Me Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel
Night Kites
Shoebag
Shoebag Returns
The Shuteyes
Slap Your Sides
Snakes Don't Miss Their Mothers
Someone Like Summer
The Son of Somebody Famous
What Became of Her
What I Really Think of You
Your Eyes in Stars

Blood on the Forehead: What I Know About Writing 1998

-Brief description in The New York Times , May 31, 1998, Sunday, Section 7, p. 40, Column 1, Book Review.

M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


 Deliver Us From Evie 1994

-Review in Kirkus Review, November 15, 1994.
-Brief review in Sunday Telegraph, December 3, 1995, p. 17.
-Review by Lois Metzger in The New York Times, April 9, 1995, Sunday, Section 7, p. 25, Column 1, Book Review.
-Review in Publishers Weekly, October 24, 1994, Vol. 241, No. 18, p. 310.
-Quotations from reviews from various sources

M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! 1972

-Review by Dale Carlson in The New York Times, February11, 1973, Sunday, Section 7, p. 8. Harder to find because of date. Probably available on microfilm.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Fell 1987

-Brief description/review in Los Angeles Times, August 1, 1987, Saturday, Part 5, p. 4, Column 3, View.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
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Fell Back 1989


M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
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Fell Down 1991


M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
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Frankenlouse 1994

-Review in Publishers Weekly, October 24, 1994, Vol. 241, No. 43, p. 62.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Gentlehands 1978

-Review in The Economist, December 23, 1978, Books, p. 102.
-Review by Richard Bradford in The New York Times, April 30, 1978, Section 7, p. 30. Harder to find because of date. Probably available on microfilm.
-Quotations of reviews from various sources (including NYT)
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


"Hello," I Lied 1997

-Brief description in The New York Times, August 3, 1997, Sunday, Section 7, p. 14, Column 4, Book Review.
-Review in Kirkus Review, March 1, 1997.
-Review by Roger Sutton in The Horn Book Magazine, July 1997, No. 4, Vol. 73, p. 457.

M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


I Stay Near You 1985

-Brief review in The Washington Post, May 12, 1985, Sunday, Book World, p. 16.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? 1973

-Review in The New York Times, May 12, 1974, Sunday, Section 7, p. 39. Harder to find because of date. Probably available on microfilm.
-Review by C. Balducci in The New York Times, September 16, 1973, Sunday, Section 7, p. 8. Harder to find because of date. Probably available on microfilm.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Is That You, Miss Blue? 1975

-Review by Alix Nelson in The New York Times, April, 13, 1975, Sunday, Section 7, p. 8. Harder to find because of date. Probably available on microfilm.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Little Little 1981

-Review by Marilyn Kaye in The New York Times, May 17, 1981, Section 7, p. 38, Column 2, Book Review.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Linger 1993

-Quotations from reviews from various sources

M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Love is a Missing Person 1975

-Review by Alix Nelson in The New York Times, October 19, 1975, Sunday, Section 7, p. 10. Harder to find because of date. Probably available on microfilm.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Me Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel 1983

-Review by Joyce Milton in The New York Times, May 22, 1983.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
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Night Kites 1986

-Reference to in The New York Times, August 4, 1991, Sunday, Section 6, p. 8, Column 5, Magazine.
-Review by Richard Peck in Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1986, Saturday, Part 5, p. 8, Column 3, View.
- Quotations from reviews from various sources
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Shoebag 1990

-Review by Suzanne Curley in Newsday, March 25, 1990, p. 23.
-Review by Ann A. Flowers in The Horn Book Magazine, January-June 1990, Volume 1, No. 2, p. 255.
-Review by Patricia Manning in School Library Journal, June 1990, p. 124.

M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
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Shoebag Returns 1996
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The Shuteyes 1993

-Review in Kirkus Reviews, January 1, 1993.
-Review in Publishers Weekly, January 11, 1993, Vol. 240, No. 2, p. 64.
-Review by Ruth Vose in School Library Journal, April 1993, p. 120.

M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Slap Your Sides 2001
-Reviews from HORN BOOK, BOOKLIST, KLIATT and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
-About the book
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Snakes Don't Miss Their Mothers 2003
-Reviews from SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, BOOKLIST, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY and KIRKUS REVIEWS
-About the book
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Someone Like Summer 2007 You probably need to scroll down to find each review.

VOYA Review by Teri S. Lesesne (2007)

Kliatt Review by Claire Rosser (2007)

Starred Booklist Review by Hazel Rochman (2007)

Publishers Weekly Review (2007)


The Son of Someone Famous 1974

-Review by Dale Carlson in The New York Times, April 7, 1974, Sunday, Section 7, p. 8. Harder to find because of date. Probably available on microfilm. 
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


What Became of Her 2000

-Publishers Weekly review from 4/24/00

-HarperCollins
Excerpt and reviews.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


What I Really Think of You 1983

-Brief description in The New York Times, June 5, 1983.
M. E. Kerr Bookstore: Click on title of interest and look for reviews.
http://www.mekerr.com/bookstore/bookstore.html


Your Eyes in Stars 2006

Review from Booklist, December 2005.

Review from School Library Journal, January 2006. (Scroll down a bit.)

Review from Kirkus Reviews,January 1, 2006. (Scroll down a bit.)

Review from Florida Sentinel Sun, January 10, 2006. (Scroll down a bit.)

Review from Chicago Tribune, January 8, 2006. (Scroll down a bit.)

Review from Publishers Weekly, January 16, 2006. (Scroll down a bit.)


Other

Books

Presenting M. E. Kerr by Alleen Pace Nilsen 1986; 1997  This is an excellent place to obtain a more complete listing of references.

Videos

Alane Ferguson, M. E. Kerr, and Shonto Begay 1994 - a video from the Young Authors Conference
 
Good conversation! A Talk With M. E. Kerr 1991 - a video by Tim Podell Productions
 
M. E. Kerr speaks at the WLA 1986 Conference - video
 
Note: I think these videos are harder to find but ask your local librarians for assistance.  I haven't seen any of these yet but will be sure to keep my eyes peeled.

Articles

"An Interview with M. E. Kerr" by Joyce L. Graham in Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1993, Volume 7, Number 1, pages 31-36.
 
"Her, Her, Her: An Interview with M. E. Kerr" by Allison Gray in Voya - Voice of youth advocates, February 1, 1991, Volume 13, Number 6, pages 337-342.
 
"An Interview with M. E. Kerr" by Paul Janeczko in English Journal, December, 1975, Volume 64, Number 9, pages 75-77.
 
"A Conversation with M. E. Kerr" by Roger Sutton in School Library Journal, June, 1993, Volume 39, Number 6, pages 24-29.

Useful Links

If you're lucky enough to have access to Lexis-Nexis or the Dow Jones news database, you'll be able to access references, especially ones from newspapers, thru those sites. Otherwise, you might check out:
 

 ProQuest Document retrieval service.


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