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 Unseen Edith Wharton play found hidden in Texas archive (The Guardian) The Nebula Awards for 2016 were announced in May. Charlie Jane Anders’s All… Read more »
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 Slightly fewer Americans are reading print books, a new Pew survey finds (Pew Research Center) Check the article out; there are more detailed graphs… Read more »
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 World Read Aloud Day is Feb. 24 (LitWorld) Unseen JRR Tolkien poems found in school magazine from 1936 (The Guardian; also New York Times) 2015 sees opening of… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Harper Lee tells persistent journalist to “Go away!” (Huffington Post) Children’s and YA Authors protest against the gendering of books. GalleyCat has a fairly… Read more »
Obviously, the very best way to celebrate Children’s Book Week is by reading children’s books! If you have children of your own (or you can borrow your nieces and nephews, or babysit for a friend), try reading one or more of your childhood favorites aloud to them. Use different voices… Read more »
A new study of iPad owners shows that parents prefer paper books for co-reading with or to their children — except on trips. The survey also goes into parents reasons for not co-reading on the iPad; their perceptions about the value of added animations, audio narration, and other features; and… Read more »
There are lots of ways to help young people develop a love of books. But the most important begins at home, by showing children the fun and the magic of books. If you have a child or young adult in your household or family, read to them! Read every day… Read more »
I love to read aloud, especially to our daughter. We — mostly I — have been reading to her since she was a baby, and I’m still at it now that she’s 16. It’s been a wonderful way to share wonderful books with her: some that we’ve discovered together,… Read more »
