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 Boys who grow up around books earn significantly more money as adults, says a new study in the Economic Journal. (via Quartz) Writing Quality Decreases Among… 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 »
Ernest Shepard, Winnie-the-Pooh Yesterday (Oct. 14) was Winnie the Pooh’s birthday! Well — sort of. October 14, 2013 marked the 87th anniversary of the first printing of Winnie-the-Pooh. The actual stuffed toy was given to the real Christopher Robin for his first birthday on August 21, 1921, which makes Pooh… Read more »
