News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Goodreads rolls out new Rereading feature. I’ve been waiting for this since I first joined Goodreads. I’m so excited! Bookstore sales rose 2.5% in… Read more »
With holiday gift-giving approaching, I thought this might be a good time to revisit some children’s classics. What does it take for a book to become a classic? First, it needs to stand the test of time: to be read and enjoyed decades or even centuries after it was written. To be… Read more »
Today is a big day for author birthdays! Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, is 92 today. Sir James M. Barrie, best known for Peter Pan, was born on this day in 1860; he died in 1937. Then there’s William Pene du Bois (1916-1993), whose Newbery Medal- winning book The… Read more »
