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Seeing as how today is the beginning of Banned Books Week and all, take a moment to explore ALAs Banned and Challenged Books website, where you can learn things like… …what was the most challenged book of the 00s? …what was the most challenged book of the 1990s? …and ways to advocate for freedom of […]
The 10 title longlist for the Young People’s Literature category of the National Book Awards has been announced, and it’s a varied assortment of Newbery contender-ish middle grade (The Real Boy, A Tangle of Knots), YA (Two Boys Kissing), and (alright!) a graphic novel (Boxers & Saints), among others. As I mentioned last week, it’s […]
What if we treated the past year of children’s books like a class of students? The Horn Book had some fun whipping up their 2012-13 Yearbook Superlatives. Awards include Best dancers, Class clown, and, of course, Most conceited. Click here to check it out. And I agree about Blop. Weirdest by a mile.
The great Joyce Valenza over at NeverEnding Search has already shared this, but if anything deserves to go school librarian viral, it’s Doug Johnson’s take on the library back-to-school letter. A simple step to starting the year on the right foot. Click here to read. (Illustration made with Paper by 53)
No hard-hitting article to ponder today – just a t-shirt. This one’s for all the librarians living in the era of Wikipedia. I think I need to add this to my student research teaching wardrobe. Click here to view it. (Thanks to LISNews for the link)
In terms of previews, you won’t find one more eye-strainingly advanced than this, the Spring 2014 Sneak Previews from Publishers Weekly. Highlights! A new Pigeon book, a Barnett/Van Duesen team-up, and Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature by Betsy Bird, Julie Danielson, and Peter Sieruta. Click here for the whole thing.
June is the time of year when the Mock Newbery favorites on Goodreads start taking shape. Let’s pull up the top five, and you can click here to see the entire list. While it’s far from a lock, the Goodreads list can be a good indicator of books that might end up in the Newbery discussion. […]
“So children’s publishing, how’s your upcoming season?” “I’d say strong … to quite strong.”¹ Publishers (no apostrophe, please) Weekly tells tales of all the high-buzz books coming in this summer and fall. DiCamillo, Willems, Henkes – lots of familiar faces here. Click here to read. *UPDATE* PW also has an excellent gallery of all the […]
The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards stand apart because… …they don’t look at books published in the typical year (that is, January 1 to December 31), but run on a June 1 to May 31 schedule. …the books must be published in America, but the authors and illustrators can be of any nationality. And, hey, the […]
This one is especially for Michigan folks. Teacher and Nerdy Book Club Blog co-mastermind Colby Sharp is up to more masterminding. He went and created nErDcamp, a daylong event with a literacy focus. The goal is to bring together a variety of educators to talk reading, writing, and thinking on July 11 in Battle Creek, MI. […]
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