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Cristin Stickles

Cristin Stickles has been nothing but a children's bookseller for the past 25 years. She has a lot of opinions about The Giving Tree.

23 Things I’d Rather Read Than Another Think Piece On What’s “Wrong” With Children’s Literature

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

23 Things I’d Rather Read Than Another Think Piece On What’s “Wrong” With Children’s Literature

An annotated edition of Fight Club with David Foster Wallace-style footnotes provided by all my worst boyfriends. A transcript from ...

ALTHEA & OLIVER and the Definition of a Great YA Writer

My favorite scene in Cristina Moracho’s exceptional YA debut, Althea & Oliver, is less than a page long, and I’ve ...

Revenge of the Teenagers!

The greatest injustice of my adolescent life came when I was 16 and one of my closest friends patiently endured ...

Tim From JURASSIC PARK Applies To Paleontology Grad School

What event in your life thus far has been the most critical to your personal development, and how did that ...

Quiz: Identify These YA Books By Their NYT Best Seller List Description Alone

In the Jane Austen-novel of my mind, I often pair up whoever writes the movie summaries for the On Demand ...

5 Excellent Board Books That Are Not Goodnight Moon

There’s few events in life that can’t be improved by gambling, and baby showers are not among them. I walk ...