Susin Nielsen
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- Gemini Award-winner Tundra author Susin Nielsen got her start feeding cast and crew muffins and bologna sandwiches on the popular television series, Degrassi Junior High. They hated her food (a fact that’s memorialized forever in a poem the cast wrote: “An ode to Susin, the Bran Muffin Queen, we eat them, we die, then we turn green”). Luckily for Susin, they saw a spark in a spec script she wrote. Nielsen went on to pen sixteen episodes of the hit television show, and four of the books in the Degrassi book series. Since then, Nielsen, who has received two Canadian Screenwriter awards, has written and story-edited many TV series, including Ready or Not, Madison, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, Edgemont, and two animated series, What About Mimi and Braceface. She co-created the pre-school series Franny’s Feet, and is the co-creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed series Robson Arms. She also adapted author Susan Juby’s book, Alice, I Think, into a TV series. Nielsen has also published three children’s books: Hank and Fergus, winner of the Mr. Christie’s Silver Medal Award, Mormor Moves In, and The Magic Beads. She lives in Vancouver with her husband, Goran, son, Oskar, and cat, Sam.
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Violet is most definitely on the young side of her twelve years, so she’s going to rub some readers the wrong way, the rest of us will simply understand that not everyone grows up at the same rate and I like seeing that reflected in books. If I’m going to read about kids who are written practically as though they’re mini adults, then I also want to read about the ones like Violet, who don’t have it all together yet, who act without entirely thinking it through, who still hold out hope for impossible things and do the kind of cringey stuff we’re all a little bit guilty of in our childhoods and beyond.
The emotion could have been amped up a little more here, this had effective moments, particularly where Violet and her sister Rose note that their dad favors his newest children, I wanted more of that sort of thing and more of the anxiety motivating Violet’s desire to find a solid match for her mom (the mom has had some seemingly depressive episodes following breakups). I also would have liked more interractions and maybe even confrontations between Violet and her parents, there were disappointments on both sides that I didn’t feel were addressed to quite the level they could have been, or at least not to the level that feelings are delved into in some of my favorite middle-grade books.
I did for the most part enjoy this, the pacing is brisk, and there’s humor throughout.… (mer)