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Nature Is Disappearing from Children's Books, Study Finds
LiveScience.com
Natural environments, such as forests and jungles, appear to be losing their place in children's books, according to an analysis of nearly 8100 images from 296 award-winning kids' books. Researchers divided the images in the books published between ...
Study: Increasingly, children's books are where the wild things aren'tScience Codex

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School seeks donations of children's books
Grand Junction Sentinel
By Richie Ann Ashcraft Each week Principal Patti Virden fills two wooden crates with used and new books which the children at Rocky Mountain Elementary School are encouraged to take home for keeps. Not a single book is ever left by Friday afternoon.

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Middlesex County author releases new children's book
MyCentralJersey.com
Carol Guchek, a lifelong Highland Park resident who recently moved to Monroe, is the author of the children's picture book “Sometimes You See Them, Sometimes You Don't.” / Photo courtesy of Carol Guchek The new children's picture book from author Carol ...

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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: Stories from K-6,” includes stories and poems of young writers as a way to showcase their potential as budding authors, ...

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Mercer Carnegie Library receives grant for new children's books
Aledo Times Record
By Anonymous This spring, the Mercer Carnegie Library will receive new children's books valued at over $1050 through the Libri Foundation Books For Children Grant. The Libri Foundation is a nationwide non-profit organization which donates new, quality, ...

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PopMatters

Black experiences are explored in books for children
PopMatters
The ugly truth of Northern bigotry is just one of the facts no longer off-limits for children's books. This month, Black History Month, brings scores of books dealing with the black experience in America. Here are several worth reading at any time of ...

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19 of the Funniest Books for Kids
Patch.com
Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it's the illustrations that get us giggling but whatever the reason, we read these books over and over and over again. You can see even more great kids book picks here. (If I missed your favorite funny kids' book, ...

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Study: Increasingly, children's books are where the wild things aren't
Science Codex
A 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 this sobering trend is consistent with a growing isolation from the natural world.

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Study: Increasingly, children's books are where the wild things aren't
EurekAlert (press release)
A 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 this sobering trend is consistent with a growing isolation from the natural world.

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Globe and Mail

Who needs a publisher when you can pitch a book on social media?
Globe and Mail
Writers 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 websites such as Kickstarter. You ask people to make pledges of their choosing; in return they get ...

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