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What Kids Lose When They Don’t Read Books Like ‘Maus’

Last month, a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel “Maus” from the district’s eighth grade curriculum on the Holocaust. In the book, American cartoonist Art Spiegelman details his parents’...

WHAT BOOK would popular novelist Diane Chamberlain take to a desert island? 

. . . are you reading now? I’m lucky to belong to a wonderful neighbourhood book club, which is diverse in age and background. Right now we are reading The Cutting Season, by Attica Locke. It’s...

TOON Books Acquired by Astra Books for Young Readers

TOON Books, founded by Francoise Mouly in 2008, has found a new home: The publisher was acquired by Astra Books for Young Readers (ABFYR), and is now that ABFYR's seventh imprint.  “TOON books are all...

District removes 8 books as inappropriate

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Students will no longer find several books in the libraries and media centers of Forsyth County Schools. The superintendent of schools says the district removed eight books after determining they contain...

Dutch publisher apologizes over controversial Anne Frank book, halts printing

The Dutch publisher of a controversial book that claimed Anne Frank … errors.” The Dutch-language publisher, Amsterdam-based Ambo Anthos, … might feel offended by the book,” said the email. … book’s author, Rosemary Sullivan, and the English-language publisher

New book urges Hispanic immigrants to embrace conservative principles

America is still a land of opportunity where conservative principles of faith and personal responsibility can help Hispanic immigrants go from rags to riches, according to a new autobiographical self-help book by author David...

Fairy tale about the Ruler

Author: Svyatoslav Moiseenko “A fairytale story is just a fairytale story. The author's fiction is just the author's fiction          and, as a result, does not no resemblance to reality. All coincidences, if any are suddenly found (what cannot be...

Four-page letter autographed by Nikola Tesla sold at auction for $340,000

Nikola Tesla was one of the most prominent inventors in the world, and proof of the Tesla name's weight was this week's Remarkable Rarities (RRAuctions) auction, when Tesla's autographed four-page letter sold for $341,295. These...

Jewish Community Center holds biannual used book sale

by: Ala Errebhi - Posted: Jan 23, 2022 / 05:34 PM CST / Updated: Jan 23, 2022 / 05:34 PM CST ST. LOUIS – Sunday kicked off the Jewish Community Center’s biannual used book sale, offering are dozens of genres,...

Lent books 2022: courses and reflections

A PHOTO from 1950 features my young uniformed father, standing beside five other Church Army officers pushing a handcart, bowing their heads to be blessed by the Bishop of Worcester. They will criss-cross England, sleeping on church-hall floors and …

Winnipeg activist wants kids to share their gifts in debut children’s book

A Winnipeg community activist has fulfilled a lifelong dream: writing his first children’s book. Michael Redhead Champagne, whose We Need Everyone comes out this fall, told 680 CJOB it’s been something he’s wanted to do...

Anarchooptimism and the history of mankind

Julia Shtutina - on the book "Dawn of Everything" by David Greber and David Wengrou rawpixel.com The latest book by David Graeber, co-written with archaeologist David Wengrow, was published in Europe and the United States...

Assistant Vice Chancellor Ozalle Toms publishes her book “Letting Perseverance Finish”

Brooklyn Stevenson, Campus News EditorJanuary 16, 2022 Ozalle Toms puts perseverance to the test with her memoir Letting Perseverance Finish Assistant Vice Chancellor Ozalle Toms’ has recently published a book called Letting Perseverance Finish on January...

University of Windsor’s Leddy Library seeks book recommendations for Black History Month

Windsor, Ont. -The University of Windsor’s Leddy Library is looking for help compiling a reading list of 28 recommendations for Black History Month. The digital project will publish a recommendation on its social media channels...

Mariah Carey to release first children’s book

… her first children's book, 'The Christmas Princess… be published via Henry Holt Books for Young Readers in autumn … about the adaptation of my book. I would rather do that...

New chapter for Baghdad’s book street

The Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday celebrated the renovation of the historic heart of its book trade, in the latest sign of an artistic renaissance after decades of conflict and strife. In a city where...

Edmonds Booktalk: Nonfiction books top Edmonds bestseller list

Welcome the New Year!! Such high hopes. 2022 has to be better… right?? Right…? In the December column we shared the bestsellers for the year through November at Edmonds Bookshop. We found the December best...

Print media of Ukraine to abandon the version in Russian

Print media of Ukraine will refuse the version in Russian due to new language norms On January 16, 2022, new rules will come into force in Ukraine, according to which all print media in the...

E-books give hard times to bookstores and libraries

Bookstores, libraries face hard times, poor patronage as students, others embrace e-books JANET OGUNDEPO, writes about the effects of e-books, internet on libraries and paper books Seated on a chair in front of his dimly lit...

2022 Alberta Book Publishing Awards now open for submissions

Attention writers. The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) is now accepting submissions for the 2022 Alberta Book Publishing Awards. Established in 1994, the Alberta Book Publishing Awards recognize and celebrate the best of the Alberta...

A book of iconic images peels away the layers to reveal the woman behind the legend

BOOK OF THE WEEK FOREVER ELIZABETH: ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHERS ON A LEGENDARY STAR  (ACC Art Books, £45, 252 pp) As much as for her classic films (Cleopatra, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?), Elizabeth Taylor was famous as part...

‘The Book Of Boba Fett’ Episode 2 Recap And Review: ‘The Tribes Of Tatooine’

The Book of Boba Fett Credit: Disney / Lucasfilm The Book of Boba Fett started off a little slow in last week’s series premiere. It’s been—understandably, if unfortunately—compared to The Mandalorian’s Disney Plus debut, and mostly in...

Books, not electronic devices, better for children’s bedtime stories, study concludes

Going old school when reading your kids bedtime stories is better than using modern technology, according to a University of Michigan study. The study, which involved 72 parents with children aged 24-36 months and was...

The £740 book that shows you just can’t trust a cover price on Amazon

Spotlight: Books like John C Boland's Hominid have been for sale at inflated prices on Amazon Critics are accusing online giant Amazon of allowing third-party sellers to misrepresent the books they market on its website....

‘Swachhta ke Rang’: Chandigarh Adviser launches colouring book for school kids

Children are set to learn good practices on keeping the city clean through a novel colouring book ‘Swachhata Ke Rang.’ In a bid to create awareness about ‘Mission Swachh Chandigarh’ among children, the Municipal...
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