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>As has been noted widely, today is Beverly Cleary's ninetieth birthday, and, not coincidentally, the first annual Drop Everything and Read Day, inspired by an episode in Cleary's Ramona Quimby, Age 8:"No book reports on your Sustained Silent Reading books," Mrs. Whaley promised the class. Then she went on, "I...
>Last night I attended a dinner honoring a new author, Catherine Murdock, whose first YA novel, Dairy Queen, is being published by Houghton Mifflin next month. Chatting with Murdock's editor Margaret Raymo, I mentioned that we had received yet another door-stopper (I refer only to size) of a review copy...
>Because one Christopher Paolini is enough, and we want to make sure he uses his powers for good....
>Okay, maybe it's just me, but David Copperfield and I have just visited Steerforth's family home, and between Steerforth calling the lad "Daisy," and the Queer Eye-view of the decor and inhabitants of the house, I feel like the book is just about to burst into little flamy flames. I'm...
>I'm hoping some of you might be able to join me and the Chicago children's-book posse at this year's Zena Sutherland Lecture on Friday, May 5 at 7:30PM at the Harold Washington Center of the Chicago Public Library. This year's speaker is Jacqueline Woodson, and her chosen topic is "How...
>In the March issue of the British children's books magazine Books for Keeps, there are capsule profiles of three children's librarians. Youth services manager Ian Dodds of the Bromley library near London is in a spot of trouble: "Some members of Bromley's library staff are still dumbstruck by Dodds' decision...
>Here's a guest entry from J.D Ho, our circulation and marketing manager:In an office full of kids' book reviewers, there aren't many comics readers -- just myself and Alison, the circulation and marketing Assistant. Overflowing with missionary zeal, I undertook to organize a trip to the comic store, a place...
>I once ended a review panning an over-the-top YA novel with the phrase " . . . but melodramatic teens will love it." It soon appeared in the publisher's ad for the book, abbreviated to "teens will love it."Apparently Miramax Books has a similarly free-spirited attitude toward quotation....
>The Association of Booksellers for Children has announced the winners of its E.B. White Read Aloud Awards. They are: for best read-aloud picture book, Chris Van Dusen's If I Built a Car; for best read-aloud chapter book, Deborah Wiles' Each Little Bird that Sings....
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