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>So today we were threatened with legal action by a disgruntled publisher who wanted us to stop reviewing their books. They wrote that if we did review any more of their titles, they would "seek legal remedies on the grounds that your publication is publishing misinformation" about their books. Meaning...
>I am not sure what to think of Glen DeVoogd's article "Question Authority," published in the April issue of SLJ and online here. DeVoogd says that kids need to be taught the means and value of questioning texts and curricula: "it's our duty to teach kids to ask serious questions...
>Thanks to Martha P. for this story on "Easter Crime" week in Norway, in which people spend their Easter vacation skiing and reading mystery novels. Sounds like heaven. The novels part, anyway.The hands-down most transcendent confluence of reading and atmosphere I have ever had was when Richard and I were...
>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...
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