What is this? Who are we?

Emily and Elizabeth have been friends since 1997. As ninth graders in New York City, they passed many a class period creating ill-drawn comic strips, mostly centering on their teachers being eaten by pterodactyls. Throughout high school, when they weren’t busy playing card games at their debate team “preparation meetings” or writing screeds on the internet about their undying love for My So-Called Life, they spent their after-school hours in Barnes and Noble’s children section. With periodic stops at the Ben & Jerry’s next door, of course.

Now in their late-20s, they still love games, ice cream, and MSCL. And most of all, books for children and teenagers. That’s what this blog is about.

Elizabeth is also the editor of IRAQIGIRL: DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL IN IRAQ, published by Haymarket Books.

For more about us & the blog (including our own favorite posts), read our Well Worth Watching profile, courtesy of Lenore.