Search Results by tag: children's books

Mommy’s new rack

In the latest sign of the impending apocalypse, ABC News has posted a story about a new children's book called My Beautiful Mommy, written by the Florida-based plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer. The book is ... Read More »

April 18, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Canada snags rare children’s book

By Jacob Sheen

From CBC.ca: When Canadian troops liberated western Holland from Nazi rule in May 1945, a 21-year-old Dutch artist named Mart Kempers was among the cheering throngs who greeted them. Before the year was out, Mr. ... Read More »

April 1, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Atwood of Green Gables

By Nathan Whitlock

Margaret Atwood, writing in The Guardian, offers a lengthy take on Anne of Green Gables. Aside from giving a brief intro to the book to those who haven't read it “ and those who haven't ... Read More »

March 31, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Rowling sees fan-written Potter lexicon as exploitation

By Nathan Whitlock

From Reuters: Billionaire Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling would feel "exploited" if a fan's unofficial encyclopedic companion to the boy wizard series was published, she said in court papers made public on Thursday. Steve Vander ... Read More »

February 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Golden Compass back on the shelves in Calgary

By Nathan Whitlock

From the Calgary Herald: After a hiatus from library shelves, a controversial novel is being welcomed back into Calgary Catholic School District schools. The Golden Compass, a decade-old novel by Philip Pullman, was pulled from ... Read More »

January 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

U.S. publisher relents on eensy-weensy penis in German kids book

By Nathan Whitlock

From EarthTimes.org: A German children's book can be published in the United States after a publisher there dropped its demand for the genitals on a picture of a statue in it be air-brushed out, it ... Read More »

January 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

U.S. award honours Christopher Paul Curtis

By Stuart Woods

The Washington Post is reporting that Windsor, Ontario, resident Christopher Paul Curtis has scooped up his third Coretta Scott King Award for Elijah of Buxton, his YA novel about a free-born child in an Ontario ... Read More »

January 15, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Writers strike = kids’ book boom?

By Scott MacDonald

From United Press International: Several people sidelined by the Hollywood writers strike said they are penning children's tales to pass the time while they wait to go back to work. "It's kind of a nice ... Read More »

January 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Ontario’s Lt-Gov to continue book drive

By Nathan Whitlock

This was announced last week, but it's worth mentioning. From the Toronto Star: Aiming for quality over quantity, Ontario Lieutenant- Governor David Onley is asking citizens to donate new children's books to help aboriginal kids ... Read More »

January 10, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries

Twenty-five years of The Snowman

By Nathan Whitlock

The film adaptation of Raymond Briggs' The Snowman is almost as inescapable at this time of year as Rudolph and Charlie Brown and the Grinch. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the wordless and ... Read More »

December 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

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