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
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Documentary about Curious George creators, who fled the Nazis on homemade bikes in 1940 – along with their unpublished manuscripts – premieres online today.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
CBC-TV's adaptation of the CanLit classic Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery has been renewed for a second season. Production of Anne With an E, titled simply Anne in Canada, will commence this fall, for broadcast on the network and ... Read More »
August 9, 2017 | Filed under: Book culture, 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
The government of Ontario has launched an initiative to get more Canadian literature into the province's schools as part of a culture strategy it released last July. The Canadian Books in Ontario Schools Fund, helmed by Tourism, Culture, ... Read More »
August 3, 2017 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news, Children's publishing
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
The film adaptation of Deborah Ellis's internationally bestselling 2000 novel The Breadwinner (Groundwood Books) – the first in a children's series about an 11-year-old in Kabul who disguises herself as a boy to make money for her family ... Read More »
July 25, 2017 | Filed under: Children's publishing, Deals
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