Year: 2016
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Penguin Young Readers and WNDB Honor Mildred D. Taylor Through Writing Contest
The contest is open to middle-grade authors of ethnically diverse backgrounds, and will begin in April 2016. Taylor’s career was launched after winning a similar contest held by the Council on Interracial Books. In 1974, the Council …
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2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature Announced
This year’s winners in the young adult and children’s categories are: Young Adult Winner: P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han Honor: Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani Children’s …
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Remembering Harry Potter Star Alan Rickman
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling leads Rickman’s fellow cast in remembering his exceptional life and work. People create perceptions of actors based based on the parts they played so it …
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Nonprofit Reports 500 Percent Increase in Number of Educators Seeking Books, Resources for Kids in Need
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The demand for books and learning materials among educators serving children from low-income families has never been higher. In the last four years, the number of educators seeking …
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Matt de la Peña Reflects on his Newbery Win
As the first Hispanic author to win Newbery, de la Peña hopes that the award will bring greater recognition to diverse voices and narratives for young readers. It’s important to see yourself in …
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Emma Watson Launches Feminist Book Club
The first book pick for Our Shared Shelf is rumored to be activist Gloria Steinem’s memoir, My Life on the Road. Since her rise to fame as Hermoine Granger in the film adaptation …
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The American Library Association to Support National Readathon Day 2016 on May 21 in Partnership with Penguin Random House
The American Library Association (ALA) today announced that they have joined with Penguin Random House to support the second annual National Readathon Day, which will take place on Saturday, May …
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#DrawingDiversity: ‘Boats for Papa’ by Jessixa Bagley
Boats for Papa by Jessixa Bagley (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children’s, June 2015). All rights reserved. @macmillankids
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Penguin Young Readers Receives Sixteen 2016 American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards
New York, NY — Penguin Young Readers has received sixteen 2016 American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards. The ALA announced today that LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET, written by Matt de …
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National Ambassador Gene Luen Yang to Write a New Nonfiction Book on Basketball
During Yang’s inauguration speech, he described a former aversion to basketball and how reading Outside the Paint, a history book by Kathleen S. Yep, instilled a yearning within him to read more books …
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Gene Luen Yang’s Speech at the National Ambassador Inauguration Ceremony
Transcript: I’d like to start my talk by telling you something about myself that you probably don’t know: I am a nerd. I like the things that nerds typically like, …
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Matt de la Peña, Sophie Blackall win Newbery, Caldecott Medals
BOSTON, MA — Matt de la Peña, author of “Last Stop on Market Street,” and Sophie Blackall, illustrator of “Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear,” …
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Penguin Young Readers And We Need Diverse Books Announce Writing Contest to Honor Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
New York, NY — Penguin Young Readers is pleased to announce a writing contest in partnership with We Need Diverse Books™ to honor the 40th anniversary of Mildred D. Taylor’s award …
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Jenny Han Gives Advice to Her Younger Self
I would tell my teenage self to really be in the moment and to continue to write down some of the feelings of that moment…Looking back, I would tell myself …
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Barnes & Noble Holds ‘My Favorite Teachers’ Contest
Prizes for the Barnes & Noble Teacher of the Year include $5,000 and recognition at a special B&N event. For more about the contest and submission guidelines, click here!
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Bill Gates on the Value of Reading
Gates fell in love with reading at a young age as a way of fulfilling his intellectual curiosity. He shares his personal book recommendations at gatesnotes.com. [Reading] is one of the …
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Jon Klassen Has Created the We Found a Hat Picture Book
“At 56 rather than 40 pages, We Found a Hat is the longest book in Klassen’s trilogy, which came about quite organically, he said: ‘I always set out to make …
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Diversifying Comics
Panels has put together a list of actions that comic book readers — young and old — can take to support diversity: Buy diverse comics Choose diversity-minded book shops Request …
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2015 Middle East Book Award Winners
The 2015 winners include: Picture Book When the Animals Saved Earth: An Eco-Fable retold by Alexis York Lumbard, illustrator Demi. (Wisdom Tales, 2015.) The Olive Tree by Elsa Marston, illustrator Claire …
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Scholastic to Publish Celebrated Humorist Calvin Trillin’s First Book of Children’s Poetry, With Illustrations by Award-Winning Artist Roz Chast
New York, NY — Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, has acquired North American rights to the first book of poems for children by bestselling …
