Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET What are the best nonfiction Common Core books to stock with your shelves with? DK Publishing, Teacher Created Materials, Lerner Publishing and ReferencePoint Press are here to help fill your library's nonfiction section by presenting their upcoming titles that fit perfectly into the new standards. This is a must-see resource for Common Core, featuring forthcoming books, nonfiction trends, and answers to your questions! This archive is no longer available
Children's literature author and illustrators visit Sandy Hook Elementary School; attendees gather in New York City for Book^2 Camp.
Thanhha Lai has written exactly one novel, Inside Out & Back Again, so to fill up this bio space she is retyping her name to include its diacritical marks: Thanhhà Lại. Such a change has no meaning for English readers but it does thrill her mother because a Lại mustn’t ever be mistaken for a Lai. These tiny pesky marks, not to be confused with accent marks, will be a main feature in Lại’s next novel, Listen, Slowly. She just submitted the first draft after typing 80 pages in two weeks, so excuse her if this bio lacks focus. Lại can often be heard muttering to herself, “la révision est toute.”
Boy, I love it when I set up a Literary Salon months in advance and then the universe conspires to make it even more timely than I’d initially intended. Expect this next one at the main branch of NYPL to feature one hot and toasty little panel talk. I shall mentally prepare in the interim. [...]
Sometimes an awards list comes out and you think, “not too shabby”. Other times an awards list comes out and you think, “absolutely no shabbiness here whatsoever. Indeed, zero shabbiness”. That’s the 2012 Cybils winners. It’s an excellent group of winners. As a member of the Fiction Picture Book committee, I’m thrilled A Home for [...]
It took many by surprise when Nick Lake’s ambitious young adult novel In Darkness (Bloomsbury) was named for the Printz Award at last month’s Youth Media Awards. Although filled with vivid details of oppression, poverty, and violence, Lake sees the book as a hopeful one with an important message for its teen readers, “this idea of darkness being only a temporary thing,” he tells SLJ.
Webooks, a cooperative ebook purchasing plan, has been named a Cutting Edge Technology Project by the American Library Association. It could be a model for districts around the country, says Christopher Harris.
Girls with supernatural powers, rumors of demon-worshiping, and of course, romance, are all to be found in "Beautiful Creatures," the film adaptation of the popular YA paranormal series.
This week's News Bites include info on Samsung's competitions for teachers and students, 2 new picture book imprints, a new conference about kidlit in the digital age.
