Links.

• And the 2012 Jefferson Muzzle Awards go to...
• Which fictional character do you share your birthday with? (I share mine with Bond villian Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who not-so-coincidentally shares a birthday with Ian Fleming.)
• Verdict discusses the various complaints listed in challenges to The Hunger Games, one by one.
• Lauren Myracle on making the Top Ten Challenged Books list yet again:

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided. My thirteen-year-old son sure thinks so. He got seventeen texts on the day the list was made public, all of them from girls (!!!), and all congratulating him for having a bad-ass for a mom. (I'm actually not a bad-ass, but if it gives my adorkable son some street cred, I'm happy to play along.)

• The 2012 Australian Book Industry shortlist has been released. The middle grade/YA titles are all new to me.
• Nudity =\= pornography.
• In case you missed it this weekend, the 2012 Minnesota Book Award winners were announced, and Mr. Brian Farrey won the YA award for With or Without You! Woo, Brian!
• At the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Literature Festival, Jane Yolen was awarded the Southern Miss Medallion and Meg Medina won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for Tía Isa Wants a Car.
• The 2012 Oklahoma Book Award winners have been announced, and the YA winner is The Revenant, by Sonia Gensler. Sounds like a cool one, too.