Waldo “Wally” Hunt, a Los Angeles advertising executive who became the father of the modern pop-up book, died November 6of congestive heart failure in Porterville, CA. He was 88.
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California fans of Gordon Korman are in for a treat next month. The award-winning author is stopping by seven libraries and one middle school in the San Francisco/Sacramento area as part of the Solano County Library’s Kids Read program.
Authors Sara Kadefors and Annika Thor may not be household names in the United States. But representatives in their native Sweden are hoping to change that.
A handful of school librarians across the country are opening packages from Lerner Publishing to find an enclosed book from Elaine Landau’s Best Dogs Ever (Lerner, 2010) series dedicated to them.
PRACTICALLY PARADISE Diane Chen, Librarian, Hickman Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee November 30, 2009 Giving ABDO fiction
I received a few fiction titles from ABDO for consideration and am packing them... More
A FUSE #8 PRODUCTION Elizabeth Bird, Children's Librarian, Children's Center at 42nd Street November 30, 2009 Fusenews: Bubs of Hubs, Hubs of Bubs
Changes are afoot! Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, the premier children's i... More
2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o
BREATHED, Berkeley. Flawed Dogs, the Novel: The Shocking Raid on Westminster. illus. by author. 216p. CIP. Philomel. 2009. Tr $16.99. ISBN 978-0-399-25218-1. LC 2009002638.
Gr 3-6–This chapter book is a spin-off of Breathed’s 2003 picture book of the same name (Little, Brown).
Celebrity decorator Evette Rios reads to enthusiastic second graders at the Brooklyn Brownstone School library as part of a First Book donation event. The Eight O' Clock Coffee brand and Candlewick Press are teaming up to contribute 20,000 books to children across the country through their partnership with First Book, an organization that provides new books to children in need.
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