September 5, 2017 | Filed under: Book links, Children's publishing
Celebrating Goodnight Moon, which turned 70 over the weekend. (The Daily Beast) More children's-book birthdays from 2017, including the 30th anniversary of Where's Waldo? and the 150th birthday of Little House on the Prairie author ... Read More »
Conservative U.S. parents speak out against gender identity–themed picture books being read in school. (Huffington Post Canada) Preview and gushing review of the long-lost Mark Twain fairy tale, The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine. (Buzzfeed) A how-to-get-your-kids-to-read article that ... Read More »
August 29, 2017 | Filed under: Book links, Children's publishing
Erinne Paisley is the author of a new series of nonfiction pop activism books. The 20-year-old University of Toronto student (originally from Victoria, B.C.) wants to encourage and teach young people to use social ... Read More »
August 25, 2017
Girls Who Code founder talks about the company's new fiction and nonfiction books, released today. (Bustle) Journalist and Man Booker Prize–winning novelist Howard Jacobson predicts Twitter will render children illiterate. (The Bookseller) Artsy looks ... Read More »
August 22, 2017 | Filed under: Book links, Children's publishing
Documentary about Curious George creators, who fled the Nazis on homemade bikes in 1940 – along with their unpublished manuscripts – premieres online today. (The Jerusalem Post) When it comes to children learning life lessons from picture ... Read More »
August 15, 2017 | Filed under: Book links, Children's publishing
Jeanette Winter's picture book about the late, groundbreaking architect Zaha Hadid teaches kids to be independent thinkers. (Quartz) The story of Fiona, a premature baby hippo born at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, will be told in Saving ... Read More »
August 8, 2017 | Filed under: Book news, Children's publishing
In her work as a PhD student at University of Toronto and as a children’s literature teacher at Seneca College, Heba Elsherief has turned her attention toward the representations of Muslim characters in children’s literature. ... Read More »
August 1, 2017
New writers have been named for the Sweet Valley High movie. (Vogue) Longread on how to raise a reader at every age and stage. (The New York Times) U.K. publisher of personalized books makes deal with Roald ... Read More »
August 1, 2017 | Filed under: Book links, Children's publishing
From Star Wars: Spaceships to Feminist Baby: Are today's board books for kids or their parents? (Book Riot) After a successful start in the U.S., Simon and Schuster children's imprint Salaam Reads – which presents positive portraits of Muslim children ... Read More »
July 25, 2017 | Filed under: Book links, Children's publishing
Emma Donoghue has raised over $100,000 for the San Francisco-based non-profit Room to Read – by donating her royalties from The Lotterys Plus One, the first book in her new middle-grade children's series. Room to Read ... Read More »
July 25, 2017 | Filed under: Children's publishing