Jan Ormerod, Author/Illustrator, Dies at 66
Jan Ormerod, author and illustrator of many books for young children, died Wednesday in England. She had been suffering from cancer, although the cause of her death “was probably a major stroke,”...
View ArticleNYPL Censorship Salon Focuses on Self-Censorship, Book Rating Trend
Robie Harris, Joan Bertin, Charlotte Jones Voiklis, Leonard Marcus, Elizabeth Levy, and Betsy Bird participate in an NYPL panel on censorship What are the biggest problems facing children’s and young...
View ArticleWhy the Great Green Room is Green, Facing Censorship, and More from BookFest...
Jennifer M. Brown, Deborah Heiligman, Lindsey Wyckoff, Leonard S. Marcus, Brian Pinkney, and Jason Chin. Photo: Cheryl Simon Why is the bedroom in Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon (Harper &...
View ArticleFree Speech Matters: National Coalition Against Censorship’s 40th Anniversary...
Luminaries at the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) Free Speech Matters dinner and awards celebration on November 3, which was emceed by actor and humorist John Hodgman, included evening...
View ArticleThe Return of Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Paddington Bear, and More | Refreshing...
ALEXANDER, Lloyd. The Book of Three. 240p. (The Chronicles of Prydain: Bk. 1.) Holt. 2014. Tr. $24.99. ISBN 9781627791229. Gr 4-7–While the general public may be more familiar with the second book in...
View ArticleCounting Down to SLJ’s Popular Picks: Part 3
In advance of the print debut of SLJ’s Popular Picks in the April 2016 issue, SLJ editors have chosen must-have works for kids and teens that appeared in the March 2016 issue. Picture Books Barton,...
View ArticlePEN America To Hold NYC Rally in Defense of Free Expression
PEN America, the advocacy organization dedicated to defending free expression, supporting persecuted writers, and promoting literary culture, is producing the flagship gathering of Writers Resist:...
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