It's Time for School! Tales for Sharing Aloud

It's Time for School! Tales for Sharing Aloud

The School Library Journal has compiled an annotated collection of some new Back to School books. Click to read the article and I'm sure, make a wish list.

Children's Authors and Illustrators against Bullying

There is a movement called It Gets Better Project in the stand against bullying. This is just one video created by Children's authors and illustrators.

New Dr. Seuss!

Random House to Publish Lost Dr. Seuss Stories

Although not lost in the true sense of the words, these stories were printed in magazines, but never published in book form.

"Cohen, who notes that there are some 30 stories from Geisel’s “magazine period,” explains that the selections in The Bippolo Seed mark a pivotal transitional point in the author’s career. “This is Dr. Seuss exactly when he was becoming Dr. Seuss,” he says. “From a chance encounter with a three-year-old who couldn’t yet read but had memorized his Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, Geisel had realized the importance of using rhyme as a read-aloud, auditory experience. He’d observed German and Japanese children reared on propaganda during World War II and began to realize that, instead of that negative influence, he had a skill that could make a positive difference. He started writing with the rhythm and rhyme for which he’s now known, and it tickles me to see the way that style and his expertise develop in this story collection, and to know that others will now be able to appreciate and enjoy it, too.”"  quote from the article (to read the rest) Publisher's Weekly

Book Anniversaries

Librarians and readers; publishers, too, of course, will be excited to learn that several classics/series are reaching milestones. Babar is turning 80, The Phantom Tollbooth has spent five decades in print, and the Magic School Bus has been zipping along for a quarter-century.  Some we enjoyed as children, some we remember introducing to children.  For the complete article from Publisher's Weekly Celebrating a Flock of Children's Book Anniversaries.