Diversity in 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

December 8, 2011 – 4:49 pm

In our December e-news, we took a look at how 2011 has played out in terms of diversity with a few events of note: Good: We started Tu Books! Which means more diversity in science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo organized the Diversity in YA tour and website to highlight [...]

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Video Thursday: Everyone’s Reading Yummy

October 21, 2010 – 11:58 am

We know we’ve done something right when readers share their excitement for our books with the entire Internet. Amy Cheney, librarian at Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center, is one of those excited readers: she made a video with other staff at the ACJJC, all explaining why they love Yummy and why it’s great for the [...]

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Mixed Messages

May 18, 2010 – 4:31 pm

Recently, I’ve read a couple books set in fantasy worlds that reverse the skin-tone power dynamic of our world: where dark-haired and dark-skinned people oppress and discriminate against paler, blonder folk. Both are fine books—The Shifter by Janice Hardy and Stealing Death by Janet Lee Carey—and neither oversimplify race relations or relies on our constructs [...]

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Making Reading Part of Your Child’s Life

May 14, 2010 – 10:21 am

It is a proven fact that reading benefits children of all ages. Hand-eye coordination is improved, vital language and social skills are developed, and lives are enriched all through reading a book. But, how do you get children interested in reading? Let us discuss this topic for specific age groups. Babies and Toddlers Introducing books [...]

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Confessions of a children’s book lover

May 11, 2010 – 12:21 pm

I’ll just come right out and say it: I love reading children’s books. I do. And not just for work, or for industry research, or for educational purposes. I read them for fun, and I am not embarrassed about it. That’s not such a revolutionary thing to say around here. Working in children’s publishing, you [...]

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Parenthood

May 4, 2010 – 12:43 pm

The 1989 film Parenthood has inspired a TV show of the same name. I haven’t seen the show yet, but I have noticed some snappy ads on the streets. One sidewalk ad features the line, “Realizing you’ve become your father”—funny and true.

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Mother’s Books

April 27, 2010 – 3:20 pm

With Mother’s Day coming up next month, we’ve been thinking about mothers in books. There are plenty of mothers in picture books, but they are rarely involved in children’s novels; I remember reading an essay by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (sadly, I can’t find it online—it was in the March 2009 Horn Book Magazine) in which [...]

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Teen Driver Safety Week & The Wild World of E-Books

October 22, 2009 – 4:46 pm

This week is officially National Teen Driver Safety Week! Now, before you think to yourself, “How many more of these random ‘holidays’ can there possibly be in one calendar year,” consider this: 1 in 4 crash fatalities in the US involves someone between the ages of 16 and 24. Nothing —not drugs, not sex, not [...]

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