Friday, May 3, 2013

News

Everyone should watch this documentary: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.  From PBS.

Can you guess the authors by their Nobel citation?  In my case the answer is no.  No I sure can't.  From PW.

Why it's important to differentiate between middle grade and YA books.  From The Horn Book.

Also from The Horn Book, Roger Sutton tells us why there needs to be a difference between YA and adult books.

Kid's books concepts to strange to publish.  From The Atlantic.

Unnecessary romance in YA.  From The Huffington Post.

AA Milne was a WWI propagandist?  Wha?  From The Guardian.

So India-based Reliance Entertainment is trying to acquire rights to the Graceling trilogy.  THEY BETTER NOT MESS IT UP.  From Variety.

"You should really have kids review the children's books."  Word.  From The New York Times.

A school district in Utah cut 20 library positions.  From Library Journal.

E-books and democracy.  The New York Times.

Hehe.  I am enjoying the One Star Review Guess Who.  Try to guess the name of the classic book from a one star review from Goodreads or Amazon.  From School Library Journal.

2 comments:

  1. I am in Utah now visiting my parents and I saw a news article on the cutting those librarian jobs and then the schools telling the librarians that next year they should apply for teaching positions. If they wanted to be teachers they would've went to school for that!!!

    Angie

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