The author’s name didn’t ring a bell, but neither did many of the other names I was encountering. That book title continued to come up in conversations during the subsequent five months I spent in Germany, always as a significant turning point in German youth literature. One of the questions I asked was along these lines: “Can you pinpoint anything that marked the rise of the young adult novel in Germany? A particular book, maybe?”īy Morton Rhue. As part of that research, I interviewed Robert Elstner, a public youth librarian in Leipzig. Since this segment of the American publishing industry was experiencing a fair amount of experimentation in form, I was interested in discovering the extent to which that might be happening elsewhere. Four years ago I was at the International Youth Library in Munich researching the status of the young adult novel outside the United States.
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