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Sendak Foundation and NYFA Set Up Relief Fund for Picture Book Creators
The Maurice Sendak Emergency Relief Fund, a joint project of the Maurice Sendak Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, will distribute grants to picture book authors and illustrators who are experiencing financial hardship during the coronavirus outbreak.
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We Need Diverse Books Launches Emergency Fund
We Need Diverse Books, the nonprofit organization dedicated to making book publishing more inclusive, has announced that it is establishing the Emergency Fund for Diverse Creatives in Children's Publishing.
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James Patterson to Give $2.5 Million to School Librarians
Author James Patterson is pledging to donate $2.5 million in partnership with Scholastic Book Clubs to help teachers build their classroom libraries.
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Children's Bookselling in the Age of Covid-19: Promoting Literacy, Going Social, and Bundling Up
Continuing our series on how children's bookstores are responding to the needs of their communities during the pandemic, we spoke with three booksellers about their latest efforts to serve young readers and their families.
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Curious George Challenge Inspires Creativity
Throughout the month of April, HMH's Curious George Challenge is guiding children and families through a series of home activities, from planting an herb garden to taking a virtual tour of a museum.
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Sharjah to Host Virtual Reading Festival in May
The Sharjah Book Authority, the cultural institution in the United Arab Emirates, has announced it is transitioning its annual Sharjah Children's Reading Festival into a virtual event called the Sharjah Virtual Reading Festival.
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Learning at Home in the Age of Covid-19
While schools are closed nationwide due to the pandemic, educational companies and publishers are rushing to offer digital resources for educators and families.
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2019 Children's Bestsellers: Graphic Novel Dynamos, Picture Book Classics, and More
Our 2019 Facts and Figures compilation of children's bestsellers includes a wide variety of titles, dominated by contemporary graphic novel series and illustrated adventures for middle graders, movie tie-ins, and tried-and-true picture books.
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Candlewick and MIT Press to Launch Joint Children's and Teen Imprints
In an unprecedented partnership, the two Boston-area publishers have announced plans to collaboratively launch two imprints for kids and YA readers, starting in 2021.
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R.J. Julia Saves Staff by Giving Away $150,000 in Books
As the impact of the new coronavirus became clear, bookstore owne Roxanne Coady was faced with the question of how to ensure that the store's 30 full-time employees have a paycheck and the store itself has a future.
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Video Series from Jason Reynolds Amplifies Children's Imaginations
Just three months into his two-year appointment as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and about a month into a U.S. pandemic, Jason Reynolds is having to connect with young people like everyone else is doing, online.
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Virtual Handselling: Recommendations from Bookshop Santa Cruz Head Children's Buyer
With bookstores across the country shutting their doors to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, traditional handselling—which often connects readers with books they didn't know they were looking for—is no longer possible. This is the second in an ongoing series featuring personal recommendations of new releases from children's booksellers.
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In Brief: April 9, 2020
This week, David Shannon has a doggone good event; Fabien Cousteau has a jaws-ome reading; Ernesto Cisneros has a Live-ly launch; and Loree Griffin Burns talks communing with nature.
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Licensing Hotline: April 2020
Read on for news about Disney Lucasfilm Press's new publishing-first Star Wars storyline; Scholastic's deals for 'The Dragon Prince' and 'Ricky Zoom'; The Elf on the Shelf as it turns 15, and more.
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2020 Children’s Book Week Moves to New Format Amid Pandemic
In response to the coronavirus outbreak that has forced bookstores, libraries, and schools to close their doors for the foreseeable future, next month's Children's Book Week is being reconfigured into a virtual celebration.
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Licensed Publishing in the Covid-19 Era
Amid these uncertain times, publishing licensees are dealing with the unique challenges that come with releasing tie-ins to feature films that are being postponed indefinitely or being watched online instead of in theaters.
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International Unicorn Day Online Festival Debuts Thursday
April 9 marks International Unicorn Day, and author Kamilla Benko is determined to make sure that readers have a chance to celebrate from home.
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Booksellers Hand-Deliver Books to Community Kids
Even though the bricks-and-mortar location of Print and Page Booksellers in Crestline, Calif., is closed for the Covid-19 crisis, the owners aim to get a book to every one of the more than 3,200 K–12 students in their local school district.
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#TweetBookCon Steps In for TeenBookCon
Houston's TeenBookCon was transformed into #TweetBookCon, an entirely digital event hosted on social media.
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Children's Bookselling in the Age of Covid-19: How Kids' Bookstores Are Supporting Literacy, and Each Other
Bookstores may be closed for browsing, but a number of children’s booksellers have found ways to sell and give away books to promote literacy despite social distancing, canceled author tours, and other roadblocks caused by the pandemic.
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