ROSE COOPER is the author/illustrator of GOSSIP FROM THE GIRLS' ROOM, RUMORS FROM THE BOYS' ROOM, SECRETS FROM THE SLEEPING BAG, I TEXT DEAD PEOPLE, and THE UNGRATEFUL DEAD.
When Rose was a teenager, she moved to a tiny town where her stepdad was a mortician, her mom was a corpse cosmetician, and their house was on cemetery grounds. She lives in Sacramento, California, with her family. Visit her at Rose-Cooper.com and follow Rose Cooper on Twitter at @RoseCooper, Facebook at @TheRoseCooper, and on Instagram and Pinterest at @sketchychics.
"The lightweight plot skips along steadily, and the black-and-white
sketches on lined notebooklike paper add appeal. Cooper's uncanny
ability to think, illustrate, and blog like a middle schooler
shines through in Sofia's charming, comical voice. Fans of Jeff
Kinney's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series (Abrams) as well as other
diary-related books should find this one especially attractive,
while the short, easy format will appeal to reluctant readers."
--School Library Journal
Praise for Gossip from the Girls' Room "Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets
Harriet the Spy." --Keeper of all Wisdom (blog)
"Rose Cooper brings Sofia to life in her debut book...Through her
witty words and sketches, Cooper is able to take a serious concept,
bullying and name-calling, and show readers why it's a bad idea."
--GirlsLife.com "I really enjoyed reading this book...It's totally
BLOGTASTIC!" --National Geographic Kids "Written as a journal with
illustrations and asides, this humorous take on trying to fit in
will find wide appeal. Hand this to female fans of the Diary of a
Wimpy Kid books, and they'll soon start anticipating Sophia's next
adventure." --Booklist "Cooper keely captures Sofia's
quintessential preteen voice: spunky and full of a blustering
bravado meant to mask her vulnerability. Sofia's experiences,
recorded in faux-hand printing on lined paper, and the many
hilarious sketches scattered throughout the journal will garner
groans and laughs from readers." --Kirkus Reviews "The tone here is
frothy and middle-school histrionic, making Sofia a wonderfully
entertaining voice...Cooper's black-and-white sketches add
additional comic appeal; particularly amusing are the portraits,
composed with big-eyed manga flair and a caricature-esque attention
to defining details." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's
Books "What a very clever book! . . . Girls reading this book will
truly understand what Sophia is going through. The writing is
interesting, flows well, has humor and heartbreak, and is such a
perfect book for a girl. . . . Perfect for a reluctant reader."
--Children's Literature
School Library Journal, February 2012:
"The lightweight plot skips along steadily, and the black-and-white
sketches on lined notebooklike paper add appeal. Cooper's uncanny
ability to think, illustrate, and blog like a middle schooler
shines through in Sofia's charming, comical voice. Fans of Jeff
Kinney's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series (Abrams) as well as other
diary-related books should find this one especially attractive,
while the short, easy format will appeal to reluctant readers."
School Library Journal, February 2012:
"The lightweight plot skips along steadily, and the black-and-white
sketches on lined notebooklike paper add appeal. Cooper s uncanny
ability to think, illustrate, and blog like a middle schooler
shines through in Sofia s charming, comical voice. Fans of Jeff
Kinney s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (Abrams) as well as other
diary-related books should find this one especially attractive,
while the short, easy format will appeal to reluctant
readers.""""
"The trials and tribulations of a middle schooler are perfectly
explained in this book. This is a great book for Wimpy Kid and Big
Nate fans! Both boys and girls will love this one."
- "Marjolein Book Blog"
Gr 4-7-Sixth-grader Sofia Becker writes an anonymous blog on her middle school website. She and her BFF, Nona, are among the "unpopulars," but she knows that once her blog takes off, they'll both become "populars." In this venue, she writes only what she hears for herself, jotting things down in her Pre-Blogging Notebook so she won't confuse details, which leads to humorous mix-ups: what she thinks she hears and what is true aren't exactly the same. Pretty, popular Mia and snooty, mean Penelope, who debuted in Gossip from the Girls' Room (Delacorte, 2011), as well as Sofia's pregnant mother, who is teaching at her school, are constant sources of irritation to her, yet at the same time they are great fodder for her blog. The lightweight plot skips along steadily, and the black-and-white sketches on lined notebooklike paper add appeal. Cooper's uncanny ability to think, illustrate, and blog like a middle schooler shines through in Sofia's charming, comical voice. Fans of Jeff Kinney's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series (Abrams) as well as other diary-related books should find this one especially attractive, while the short, easy format will appeal to reluctant readers.-D. Maria LaRocco, Cuyahoga Public Library, Strongsville, OH (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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