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Picture Book Mini Trend Alert! Hugging the unhuggable. It’s an idea that has serious picture book legs. I think the first time I saw a book on this topic was a couple years back: Hugs from Pearl by Paul Schmid And this one was out around the same time: Hug Me by Simona Ciraolo The […]

Just in time for road-trip season comes the new free monthly podcast series, Highlights Hangout  Launched this week, the series is a collaboration between the makers of the popular and iconic Highlights For Children magazine (now 72-years old!) and the creators of NPR’s also popular science podcast Wow in the World, both produced in partnership with Tinkercast.com, a leading producer of educational audio. […]

Six winners of the Margaret A. Edwards Award are pictured, along with the honor’s namesake.

These films take inspiration from their source material without necessarily replicating the books to the last detail.

We rounded up picture books, middle grade novels, and YA titles from the past year that either center the Caribbean American experience or are written by authors of Caribbean descent.

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Notable keynotes, panels, and events from this year's conference.

Regular readers know that I have been on a roller coaster journey trying  to learn how to do screen printing in order to host a program at the Teen MakerSpace at my library, The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH). There were tragic fails, epic highs, emotional angsty, and some down right […]

Authors Angie Thomas and Alexandra Bracken, as well as actress Amandla Stenberg, offer hints about their upcoming films.