#brian young

[hug-kiss-marry-kill]

What should we do with Stacy’s Mom (Fountains of Wayne Song)?

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Voting ended onFeb 5, 2025

[the-night-picture-collector]

/ Brian Young, 1984

[the-dust-jacket]

Congratulations to all of the 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Award honorees! These are the Medalists and Honor books in the YA category.

[weneeddiversebooks]

Happy Native American Heritage Day! Heartdrum is a Native-focused imprint curated by Cynthia Leitich Smith that offers a wide range of stories by Native creators, informed and inspired by lived experience, with an emphasis on the present and future of Indian Country and on the strength of young Native heroes.

Read more about each book and download the educator guide here.

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Heartdrum books available for preorder:

Just Like Grandma by Kim Rogers, illustrated by Julie Flett (out 1/24/23)

Heroes of the Water Monster by Brian Young (out 5/23/23)

We Still Belong by Christine Day (out 8/1/23)

Heartdrum books currently out:

Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith

JoJo Makoons and the Used-to-Be Best Friend by Dawn Quigley, illustrated by Tara Audibert

JoJo Makoons: Fancy Pants by Dawn Quigley, illustrated by Tara Audibert

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

Ancestor Approved edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young

I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

The Sea in Winter by Christine Day

Rain is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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[Image description: The top image is a graphic with a light green background and text that reads, “Heartdrum Books to Read or Preorder on Native American Heritage Day”. The next image is a graphic with a light orange background that features the cover art for JUST LIKE GRANDMA. The next image is a graphic with a light blue background that features the cover art for HEROES OF THE WATER MONSTER. The next image is a graphic with a light pink background that features the cover art for WE STILL BELONG. The last image is a graphic featuring the tiled cover images for the rest of the books listed in the post above.]

[win-x]

thoughts and prayers go out to the winx club fandom during this trying time 😔🙏🏼

[spilladabalia]

Fountains Of Wayne - I Want An Alien For Christmas

[musicmags]

[radley21]

Welp. It’s official. Honestly I’m glad after the hot mess that was Season 2. I lay this cancellation squarely at the feet of the OG “fans” who bullied Young and the creative team into torpedoing the fun and creativity of S1 to instead cater to the OG’s demands. Hope y’all are happy and proud of yourselves.

Too many characters, too many cast changes, too many stories to do any of them any justice. It was a muddled mess full of missed opportunities and wasted talent from some amazing cast members and shouldn’t be continued.

I hope that Young will take an important lesson from this series so that in his next project he’ll follow his own vision rather than trying to please the “masses.”

All that being said? I honestly think the Fate fans love the show and do it better justice than anyone on the official creative team. And we aren’t going anywhere and have a ton of stories left to tell. We’re good. Onward. ❤️