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Friday Links

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.”

Tumblr folks, are you following The Underground New York Public Library yet? If not, you should be!

Hollywood comes to the Horn Book: Taye Diggs profiles Shane W. Evans for the Horn Book Magazine.

How can librarians help Cindi Lauper?

Friday Links

“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 John Oliver) from Save The Children imagines a numberless world.

Spoiler Alert! Publishers Weekly ruins the endings of some of classics. (Here’s one: Elizabeth marries Darcy.)

Newbery and Caldecott Medalists Jerry Pinkney, Lois Lowry, Erin E. Stead, and others reveal their favorite award winners in SLJ’s sister publication the Horn Book Magazine.

Friday Links!

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 children’s books should you not reread as an adult?”

Friday Links

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.

Friday Links

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!