news & Reviews
Old news
My Road Trip to the Pretty Girl Capital of the World wins Best YA novel 2003 award given by The Texas Institute of Letters.
My Road Trip to the Pretty Girl Capital of the World is a finalist for Teddy Award.
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books favorite quote for December, 2003 comes from My Road Trip to the Pretty Girl Capital of the World:
“I thought he was probably crazy. Still sane people had made the world what it was today. That was kind of a sobering thought."
“…there's plenty of madcap hilarity but beneath it all are serious underpinnings …Yansky neatly shows the thrill and allure of the ageless answer to teen troubles: roadtrip!”
—Booklist
“Keenly observed and continually surprising, this is one road trip well worth taking.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Simon's disaffection is compellingly and believably expressed, but the understated, very dryly humorous tone of his narration keeps the angst from being overwhelming and recalls Flannery O'Connor in its matter-of-fact observations of a very strange world.”
—Bulletin of The Center For Children's Books
New News
Wonders of the World came out from Flux in June 2007.
“Grim realism about homelessness with a touch of magical realism, told in a meaningfully spare first-person voice… the author deftly and subtly portrays Eric’s slow acknowledgement of the truth about his father.”
—Kirkus
“This is a dark, gripping, tale with a sympathetic protagonist….”
—Edge of the Forest
“Yansky is a fine writer who masters a complicated narrative.”
—Kliatt
