Multidimensional Masculinity and Resuscitating “Literacy Life” in Kids: We’re Talking With Torrey Maldonado Today!

It wasn’t all that long ago that all the talk on the children’s literature social media was about middle grade novels and their prodigious length. Where, the people asked, were the Apple paperback-length books from the days of yore? Where the Goosebumps-sized novels? The conversation on this topic has since shifted (either to AI, once again, or why there are too many grandmother picture books) but let’s just pause for a moment and consider the original complaint. Middle grade is too long, you sa...