Category: Books

America

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…

5 February 2022 · 10 min read

America

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…

3 February 2022 · 3 min read

Books

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…

1 February 2022 · 2 min read

Books

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.…

28 January 2022 · 7 min read

Books

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,…

24 January 2022 · 2 min read

Books

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.…

21 January 2022 · 11 min read