Traveling display of student work celebrates One Book, Two Book children’s lit … – Iowa City Press Citizen

Traveling display of student work celebrates One Book, Two Book children's lit …Iowa City Press Citizen… the UNESCO City of Literature's One Book, Two Book Children's Literature Festival. “Once Upon a Time in the City of Literature: S…

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Study: Increasingly, children’s books are where the wild things aren’t – Science Codex

Study: Increasingly, children's books are where the wild things aren'tScience CodexA new study has found that over the last several decades, nature has increasingly taken a back seat in award-winning children's picture books — and suggests…

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Who needs a publisher when you can pitch a book on social media? – Globe and Mail

Globe and MailWho needs a publisher when you can pitch a book on social media?Globe and MailWriters are turning to be-your-own-business models when setting out to produce a book. Some of them are avoiding publishers by raising their own money on websit…

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Corner: The latest kids’ books to win the Coretta Scott King Awards – ScrippsNews

Corner: The latest kids' books to win the Coretta Scott King AwardsScrippsNewsMartin Luther King Jr., and are designed to highlight the best children's books created each year by African-American authors and artists. The awards are sponsored by…

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Books for the under-15 set: Justin Bieber, Stephen Colbert and Mark Kelly – Baltimore Sun

Hollywood ReporterBooks for the under-15 set: Justin Bieber, Stephen Colbert and Mark KellyBaltimore SunA flurry of new children's books is headed for the shelves, and the authors carry some very familiar names, including Stephen Colbert. A look at…

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World Book Day Festival – Stornoway Gazette

World Book Day FestivalStornoway GazetteWorld Book Day's children's festival will be beamed live to Isle of Lewis on 1st March. A fantastic line-up of authors and illustrators are uniting for the country's first online children's book f…

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Jamie Oliver joins the Book People for celebration of children’s literature – PR Urgent (press release)

Jamie Oliver joins the Book People for celebration of children's literaturePR Urgent (press release)Children's literature is often described as being in a Golden Age. The sale of children's books is rising unimpeded by the current economic …

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Releases the Late Anthony Shadid’s Most Personal … – MarketWatch (press release)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Releases the Late Anthony Shadid's Most Personal …MarketWatch (press release)Along with a celebrated lineup of children's authors, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group is the publisher of some of the b…

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Jamie Oliver joins the Book People for celebration of children’s literature – WebWire (press release)

Jamie Oliver joins the Book People for celebration of children's literatureWebWire (press release)Children's literature is often described as being in a Golden Age. The sale of children's books is rising unimpeded by the current economic cl…

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Author’s dream of a plot inspires pupils to write their own tales – Evening Standard

Evening StandardAuthor's dream of a plot inspires pupils to write their own talesEvening StandardAn award-winning children's author revealed he had the idea for one of his much loved characters in a dream. He recorded his thoughts on a piece of…

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