You know when you have a high reading 1st grader? Ready for a meaty short chapter book? A page-turning story? This is a perfect…
Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88 Words later.
Melissa Sweet donated all of the original art, her research notes, the process art, manuscripts, and revisions from her award winning book Balloons Over Broadway…
This is how happy I was when I found out that five boxes were coming from Megan McDonald the author of Judy…
Obituaries are Odd Things When I had heard that Julius Lester had died, for the next day I searched obsessively for remembrances and…
From Julius Lester’s Facebook page in the last half hour. “Julius has passed peacefully, surrounded by family. The family is requesting privacy at this time…
Big Book alert. Children of Blood And Bone by Tomi Adyemi (March 2018, Henry Holt) I like big books and I cannot lie. This one is…
The Educational Book and Media Association (EBMA) awarded Kate DiCamillo the 2017 Jeremiah Ludington Award. The award, named after EBMA’s founder, is presented…
Sorry for the shortage of postings. I have been traveling this week to attend a conference of children’s book publishers and educational wholesalers, the Educational…
I am thrilled to share that the new Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature is Jacqueline Woodson. No need for me to reinvent the wheel….