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Fight Club, Now G-Rated

How do you share your favorite books with your kids when those books aren’t quite G-rated? Over at Mashable, Chuck Palahniuk performs a reading from his nonexistent book, Fight Club…

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Too Many Skirts and Dresses

There are a number of picture books with strong girl protagonists, however the majority of them are drawn in skirts and dresses. At the Guardian, Julia Eccleshare calls for more children’s…

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Intergenerational Cycle of Crap

Gabriel Roth has some hard truths about The Poky Little Puppy, and he’s not wrong. Millions of people enjoyed The Poky Little Puppy as children, because it was cheap and because, being…

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Finally, a Seuss Museum

The world’s first museum dedicated to the life and work of Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, is set to open in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts as soon as 2016.…

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Over at FiveThirtyEight, Amy Rothschild explores the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign, and the many strategies advocates are using to make a lasting change in the landscape of children’s literature. While 2014 showed…

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Why Matilda Got Her Measles Shot

Since much of the rhetoric around recent outbreaks of the measles revolves around concern for the well-being of children, perhaps the strongest advocate to answer our concerns is a beloved…

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Goodbye Chestnut, Hello Chatrooms

The Oxford Junior Dictionary takes the forefront this week in the debate over the pedagogy of reference books, as 28 authors join a public campaign to reverse changes that have…

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A Girl’s Guide to Activism

A seven-year-old in California scored a big win for the little guy (or, in this case, the little girl) by convincing Abdo Publishing to stop marketing their Biggest, Baddest Book…

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Modiano the Next Roald Dahl?

For the Guardian, Alison Flood reports that a British publisher has purchased a translation of Patrick Modiano’s only children’s book. The news comes after the author’s Nobel Prize piqued the interest of…

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The Last Book I Loved: Krabat

1982 was a shitty year. I was 9 years old and in the 4th grade in Appleton, Wisconsin. My parents were going through a nasty divorce, the kind of thing you see on Jerry Springer.

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Book With No Pictures

After publishing a collection of short stories earlier this year, B.J. Novak has just released his first book for children, Book With No Pictures. The title is pretty self-explanatory—as an interview…

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children’s lit

Fight Club, Now G-Rated

Too Many Skirts and Dresses

Intergenerational Cycle of Crap

Finally, a Seuss Museum

Diverse Books by the Numbers

Why Matilda Got Her Measles Shot

Goodbye Chestnut, Hello Chatrooms

A Girl’s Guide to Activism

Modiano the Next Roald Dahl?

The Last Book I Loved: Krabat

Book With No Pictures

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