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Tug of war over what books N.C. schoolchildren can read | Carolina Public Press buff.ly/Nvy3AgM
07.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Disney Acquires Film Rights to Katherine Rundell’s ‘Impossible Creatures’ Series | Deadline ift.tt/34Ynsvl
07.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
★ Sara Holly Ackerman and illustrator Galia Bernstein’s “exhilarating” picture book HOW TO HATCH: A GOSLING’S GUIDE TO BREAKING FREE “will have readers cheering as they learn—and maybe thinking about their own arrival into the world, too” buff.ly/5UdApKn
07.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finalists for 2025 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Announced buff.ly/1R5lVtV
07.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
8 Chosen One YA Fantasy Books | Book Riot buff.ly/3FMnhTG
06.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Moomins are coming to the big screen, in an animated feature to be directed and written by “Steven Universe” creator Rebecca Sugar | Variety t.co/TsXdGlrz1W
06.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“Endearing mean girls keep the pages turning” in Maggie Horne’s “fresh and funny” queer YA romance, FREDDIE AND STELLA GOT HOT buff.ly/JO7NTHp
06.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'Dear Acorn, (Love, Oak)' is a picture book of letter poems to friends | NPR buff.ly/a8C1Njb
06.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3 Books To Teach Kids About Censorship | Book Riot buff.ly/xfd9oNm
06.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
‘The Librarians’ Review: What Should Children Read? | New York Times
06.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beaten by a Chicken: How a Chinatown Arcade Legend Became a Children’s Book | Documented NY buff.ly/KCpvBlJ
06.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
★ Debut author Katie Bernet delivers a “brilliantly snappy contemporary riff on Little Women” in her “electrifying” YA whodunit, BETH IS DEAD buff.ly/kEisWEJ
06.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Georgia book banners work in secret, but anticensorship movements are growing | ArtsATL buff.ly/3O2yVhu
06.10.2025 13:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
When Mychal Threets received an email last year offering him the opportunity to host a revived version of “Reading Rainbow,” he thought it was a hoax | New York Times buff.ly/hp97WXO
06.10.2025 12:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Authors appeal ‘Tango Makes Three’ book ban ruling in federal court | WKMG buff.ly/rLETPbk
06.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Rae Rose and illustrator Aly McKnight’s “environmentally conscious” picture book” THE SACRED STONE CAMP “melds a child’s journey with extended information on the Sacred Stone Camp and Water Protectors”
03.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
77 Picture Book Series That Encourage Readers to Embrace the Journey | School Library Journal buff.ly/2Atlhje
03.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Central Texas school district purges books from curriculum citing new state law | Spectrum News buff.ly/IaYdsrv
03.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Among the books hitting shelves next week are a picture book about a group of busy friends, a YA thriller about a dangerous man infiltrating a friend group, a middle grade road trip novel and more buff.ly/O2927GH
03.10.2025 16:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“I strongly feel that tough emotions are very much part of the fabric of our everyday lives”: Trung Le Nguyen on navigating big emotions in his YA graphic novel romance’ Angelica and the Bear Prince’ buff.ly/PTQ6h2k
03.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Word Up’s Uptown Kid Lit 2025 in Photos buff.ly/41WfMfU
03.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TV Alert: 'Charlotte’s Web' buff.ly/3u5Ialy
03.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Comprehensive” picture book biography REVOLUTIONS ARE MADE OF LOVE: THE STORY OF JAMES BOGGS AND GRACE LEE BOGGS by Sun Yung Shin, Mélina Mangal, and Leslie Barlow conveys “both [the subjects’] connection and their fervent passion for fighting for equity”
03.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Author Aimee Lucido on Facing Down the Blank Page buff.ly/IkQSpgn
03.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“There’s something so wonderfully empowering to the idea that no matter where you come from, there are people out there who will love, support, and fight for you”: author Marieke Nijkamp in conversation with editor Martha Mihalick on found family in her new book, ‘City of Secrets’ buff.ly/kcuC8Qa
03.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
S&S Launches Crossover Romance Imprint buff.ly/nXKTNjD
03.10.2025 12:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Publishing Pros Band Together to Root Out Censorship buff.ly/eQ5fWbA
03.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Emma Ledbetter Joins Candlewick as Executive Editorial Director of Picture Books buff.ly/Jj6K6hw
03.10.2025 11:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Announcing new deals for @rachaellippincott.bsky.social @annameriano.bsky.social @hellomrforrest.bsky.social + more buff.ly/xpykFFv
03.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Changes at Candlewick; A New ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Adaptation; Uptown Kid Lit In Photos + more in the latest Children’s Bookshelf
03.10.2025 00:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
