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  • Children’s Books: Creature by Andrew Zuckerman and Alphabeasties by Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss

  • Source: januarymagazine.com Date: Nov 21, 2009
    Alphabet books would seem to be one of the most popular categories of children’s picture books. There appears to be an endless supply of “A is for this” and “B is for that.” Think of a topic and you can probably find an alphabet book to match it. The books ranges wildly in quality and content but More

  • Two Good Thieves by Daniel Finn

  • Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: Nov 21, 2009
    There is an obvious pun in the title of Daniel Finn's new novel. (He has written other books as Will Gatti, but this is his first to be published under this name.) His two heroes, a boy and a girl nicknamed Demi and Baz, are good thieves in one sense: they're very skilled at the art of theft. More

  • Author not kidding about his passion for BC football

  • Source: www.bostonherald.com Date: Nov 20, 2009
    Get ready to punt “Goodnight Moon.” Boston College grad Michael Shoule has scored a touchdown with kids and their gridiron-loving parents with “My Daddy Loves Boston College Football.” Shoule, a Queens, N.Y., native who graduated from BC in 1992, had just about had it... More

  • San Diego Charities and Private Equity Firm Team Up to Gift Books and Supplies to the Survivors of

  • Source: Comtex Date: Nov 19, 2009
    Two San Diego charities and a San Diego Private Equity Firm are teaming up to gift educational books to the children, families and schools in the Philippines. The San Diego Classic Lions Club of National City and The I AM Foundation, two non-profit organizations, are teaming up with The I AM More

  • Vanity book awards

  • Source: www.salon.com Date: Nov 18, 2009
    Want to win some props for your masterpiece? We can do that -- for a price<a More

  • In brief

  • Source: www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au Date: Nov 18, 2009
    BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER Online, incorporating the Weekly Book Newsletter, is the online information portal for book industry professionals in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. Jobs, news, events and industry announcements - this is the one place to find it all. More

  • Free Love's Discontents: A.S. Byatt's 'Children'

  • Source: www.npr.org Date: Nov 16, 2009
    The Booker Prize-winning author calls her new novel The Children's Book her "easiest to love." In it, the children of a bohemian turn-of-the-century couple discover the truth about their parents. Byatt is also the author of Posession. More

  • Raven Summer

  • Source: features.csmonitor.com Date: Nov 14, 2009
    'Raven Summer’ leads two teens to both adventure and danger in this evocative young adult novel. More

  • More Best Books: The Atlantic's History-Heavy Top 25

  • Source: www.omnivoracious.com Date: Nov 14, 2009
    I haven't been doing as good a job as Largehearted Boy in tracking all the Best Books of 2009 lists that are coming out (although it's true that about half of his links at this early stage are to our... More

  • Graphic memoir recounts tormented childhood

  • Source: www.miamiherald.com Date: Nov 12, 2009
    David Small's story is almost unimaginable. A young boy grows up in suburban Detroit during the 1950s in a home full of anger, secrets and silence. Mother is a cold, angry, bitter woman with congenital medical problems and a deep secret. Older brother torments his sibling. Father is a distant, smug More

  • The Children’s Book paperback release date announced: Man Booker Prize news

  • Date: Nov 11, 2009
    Described by Peter Kemp in The Sunday Times as ‘easily the best thing A S Byatt has written since her Booker Prize-winning masterpiece, Possession... The Children's Book is a work that superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip.' More

  • 'The Children's Book': A.S. Byatt's opus of the Edwardian age

  • Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com Date: Nov 7, 2009
    "The Children's Book" is English novelist A.S. Byatt's richly detailed saga of a free-spirited English family in the Edwardian age. More

  • The Humbling by Philip Roth: review

  • Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Date: Nov 4, 2009
    Michael Prodger is disappointed by The Humbling, Philip Roth's latest tale of the travails of age More

  • 53 Authors Donate Book Profits For Children In War Zones

  • Source: www.prweb.com Date: Nov 3, 2009
    PR: SQL Server MVP Deep Dives royalties go to War Child International. Greenwich, CT (PRWEB) November 3, 2009 -- When Microsoft Founder Bill Gates issued a challenge for Microsoft MVPs to "do philanthropy where you are," 53 of the world's most highly-r More

  • Off the Shelf: Can I get a little respect, here?

  • Source: www.latimes.com Date: Nov 1, 2009
    "Introduce yourself! I gotta eat lunch!" The entertainment director at Ghost Town in the Sky hunkered over his burger and fries. I stood on the stage warming up with my sister-in-law, Tomi Lunsford, a Nashville singer-songwriter who performs music to accompany my trilogy of children's novels set in More

  • Living through travails of love and freedom

  • Source: www.baltimoresun.com Date: Nov 1, 2009
    "The Bog Baby" By Jeanne Willis, illustrated by Gwen Millward Schwartz & Wade, $16.99, ages 3-7 Willis and Millward conjure up a world of magic, which just might be the way a child sees any old puddle, in the woods or on the playground. More

  • As night falls, books that shine

  • Source: www.boston.com Date: Nov 1, 2009
    In autumn, night comes sooner, seems to fall faster and deeper, and lasts longer - and I, for one, am grateful to all childrens books that celebrate the bright side of the dark. More

  • Delightful New Children's Book Shares Life of Adopted Dog

  • Source: www.prnewswire.com Date: Oct 29, 2009
    Delightful New Children's Book Shares Life of Adopted Dog. In an Effort to Encourage Readers to Adopt Rescued Animals, Martha Steward Tells Story of Darby. More

  • Daily Dose for Wed, Oct 28: A Hole Is to Dig

  • Source: www.powells.com Date: Oct 28, 2009
    The author's merry text and Sendak's bouncing illustrations provide young readers with a host of "first" definitions that explain everything from faces to books. Illustrated.... More

  • Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

  • Source: www.bloomsbury.com Date: Oct 26, 2009
    Stunningly illustrated by Chris Riddell, who brings the ghouls, ghosts and hero wonderfully to life in this fantastic ghost adventure story, laced with menace and humour Newbery Medal Winning Novel More

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