June 2012
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An Alice in Wonderland transit map…just hope it’s easier to figure out than the NYC bus schedule.
We couldn’t make this up: Niall Leonard, the husband of 50 Shades of Grey author E.L. James, has a deal to write a YA book.
From Toni Morrison’s Beloved to Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon, the Library of Congress shares “Books That Shaped America.”
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WatchCheck out SLJ’s photo slideshow from the American Library Association’s 2012 Annual Conference. More images can be found on our Flickr site.
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“I have one certainty: books will endure even as those of us responsible for them are in a perennial, sometimes frenetic contest to keep pace with change,” writes Peter Osnos in The Atlantic.
The Atlantic Wire and the Wall Street Journal mourn the death of grammar.
What would a world with no math look like? This funny video (starring Michael Boatman, Julie Bowman, Simon Helberg, and...
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Flavorwire has a slide show of the childhood homes of 20 authors, from Hemingway to Kafka.
There’s a new “Anne of Green Gables” TV series in the works.
The Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia has opened a new exhibit, “Maurice Sendak: A Legacy.”
McNally Jackson bookstore in Manhattan has kid reviewers on their Tumblr site.
The Guardian asks, “which...
“As a first-grade student of mine once whispered of this book in great...”
– Top 100 Picture Books #14: Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina « A Fuse #8 Production
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“This “book gap” is easier to erase than the more complex barriers involved in...”
– Education Week Teacher: The Home Library Effect: Transforming At-Risk Readers
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“I appreciate that you don’t agree with the book, but school libraries are there...”
– A comment on our Facebook page in response to our news story “Utah District Restricts Polacco’s ‘Our Mothers’ House’ in Elementary School Libraries.”
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“Publishing, whether it is traditional publishers, self publishers, digital first...”
– The biggest threat to publishing isn’t Amazon; it’s Angry Birds (why publishers should invest in libraries)
When it comes to library lending, just do it.
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Watch“Middle school snake charmers,” aka, authors Sharon Creech, Joan Bauer, Eoin Colfer, James Dashner, and Rebecca Stead chatted with moderator Jennifer Hubert Swan about writing for a little understood reader: adolescents. The panel was part of School Library Journal’s Day of Dialog on June 4, 2012 at the Javits Center in NYC.
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New study says enhanced ebooks are bad for kids.
Author John Green announces the “An Abundance of Covers” contest winner.
A summer reading flowchart from Teach.com.
Rosa Guy, author ofThe Friends, has passed away.
Photos from the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards announcement at BEA.
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WatchThe Perks of Being a Wallflower trailer is here!
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For the love of James and the Giant Peach.
Beauty Queens the Movie? YA novels that should be made into movies.
The Guardian has created a literary map of the UK and Ireland.
A spring interactive and pop-up book roundup from the New York Times.
The seventh “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book is coming in November!
