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Gene Yang's ‘Reading Without Walls' to Debut in April
Launched as a pilot program last year, Reading Without Walls is an effort by cartoonist and reading ambassador Gene Luen Yang to encourage young people to read books outside of their personal experience.
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Fourth Annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day Gets Underway
Multicultural Children’s Book Day will take place on Friday, January 27.
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Bay Area Bloggers Brunch: A Photo Essay
On January 14, Books Inc. Santa Clara hosted the first-ever Bay Area Book BFFs: Authors <3 Bloggers Brunch, a chance for local authors and bloggers to mix and mingle.
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In Brief: January 26, 2017
This week, marchers from the children’s book world put a kid lit-inspired spin on protest marches, Kwame Alexander met with fellow authors at ALA; and Peachtree Publishers celebrated a milestone.
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Rights Report: Week of January 23, 2017
New deals this week for Jay Coles, Julie Fogliano, and Michael J. Rosen.
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When They Got the Call: PW Speaks with the 2017 Newbery and Caldecott Winners
PW spoke with this year's Caldecott and Newbery Medal winners about what they were doing when the committee called with the good news.
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Barnhill, Steptoe, 'March: Book Three' Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz
Kelly Barnhill won the Newbery Medal for 'The Girl Who Drank the Moon,' Javaka Steptoe won the Caldecott Medal for 'Radiant Child,' and John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell won the Printz Award for 'March: Book Three.'
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PRH, S&S; Sue Moppet Books’ KinderGuides for Infringement
Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster have joined with the estates of four prominent authors to file a lawsuit against Moppet Books.
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Children’s Book Week Poster Revealed
Children’s book illustrator Christian Robinson has designed the official poster for the 98th Children’s Book Week, which will take place this year May 1 to 7.
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Rights Report: Week of January 16, 2017
News deals this week for E Lockhart, Simon Van Booy, and Adi Alsaid.
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