Jan 14 2008: The American Library Association has named its annual winners of more than 10 awards. Most notably, the Newbery Medal goes to Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick) and the Caldecott Medal goes to The Invention...
Jan 11 2008: In an age when people bemoan the loss of independent bookstores, the American Booksellers Association reports on the 115 new bookstores that opened in 2007. The article includes a list of all the stores and the cities in which they are located.
Jan 08 2008: The Guardian (UK) reports on the increasingly draconian censorship of books in Iran which began after the 1979 Islamic revolution, when the government imposed strict rules on book publishing. Since then, the Ministry of Culture has been charged to vet all books before ...
Jan 07 2008: The Associated Press reports on the slow revival of the Mutanabi Street book market in Baghdad ten months after a car bomb blamed on al-Qaida militants ripped the market apart, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 100 (see March 6 2007).
Jan 05 2008: Lake Superior State University have published their latest list of banished words, or to be more exact the list of words that contributors which could be banished! The list has been published every New Year's Day for 32 years. This year's list of banished words ...
Jan 04 2008: The Washington Post reports that Jon Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and the Time Warp Trio series is to be the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
"We think it's very important to have an evangelist for ...
Jan 03 2008: The individual Costa Award winners have been announced. They are:
Jan 03 2008: Author George MacDonald Fraser died Wednesday following a battle with cancer. Born April 2, 1925, the author was best known for his Flashman series of historical novels. His most recent novel, The Reavers, was published in the UK last Fall and will be published in the ...
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