No need to be lachrymose about children’s literacy
Ellie Robins
If some commentators are to be believed, we’ll soon be barking nothing but txtspk at one another, such is the degeneration of the English language in the hands of yoofs.… Read more »
If some commentators are to be believed, we’ll soon be barking nothing but txtspk at one another, such is the degeneration of the English language in the hands of yoofs.… Read more »
If you’ve been wondering what to do with that $3.2m burning a hole in your pocket, you might consider investing in a piece of children’s literary history. A.A. Milne’s former home… 2 / Read more »
In a bittersweet twist of fate, Stephen Colbert’s children’s book, I Am A Pole (and So Can You!) released yesterday, the same day Maurice Sendak died. Sendak, of course, is… Read more »
The New York Times’ David Streitfeld has a profile of Tulsa-based publisher Educational Development Corporation, which in February pulled its 1,800 children’s books off of Amazon. (A move discussed in… Read more »
Tom Tivnan reports in The Bookseller that Worldreader — often called ‘the e-reader NGO’ — has just beta launched an app that will enable owners of ‘dumb’ phones to… Read more »
Is this the work of anti-environmentalist radicals? A statue of the Dr. Seuss character the Lorax was stolen from the late author’s home in La Jolla, CA over the weekend.… Read more »
Move over, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty; the newest fairy tale heroine is none other than the Turnip Princess. Five hundred previously unknown Bavarian fairy tales — including “The Turnip Princess,”… 1 / Read more »
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced plans to transport its hit musical Matilda, based on the classic Roald Dahl novel, to New York early next year. Dahl’s beloved children story centers… Read more »
In their newly-released March issue, Scholastic’s Parents magazine announces a list of the top one hundred books for kids. Culled from over 500 titles suggested by literacy experts, educators, and parents, the… 4 / Read more »
Melville House announced today that it has offered wannabe children’s book author Stephen Colbert its biggest deal ever for a first book. After hearing Colbert describe his proposed illustrated children’s book, I Am… 10 / Read more »