Author Salman Rushdie among those angry after some passages relating to weight, gender, mental health and race were rewrittenCritics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colourful language from works such as Charlie and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-20 04:05:42 UTC ]
Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colorful language from works such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Matilda” to make them more acceptable to modern readers Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-02-20 00:47:34 UTC ]
Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl's classic children's books of censorship after it removed some language from works such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda to make them more acceptable to modern readers. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-02-19 19:08:29 UTC ]
Decades after its first publication, Margaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s book “Goodnight Moon” still brings families together. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2022-09-01 15:59:00 UTC ]
Disney is set to release a live-action and CGI film retelling of Italian author Carlo Collodi and illustrator Enrico Mazzanti's 'Pinocchio,' the classic children's tale that follows a puppet's journey to escape his owner to become a "real boy." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a prolific novelist, short-story writer, and poet, who is perhaps best-known for classic children’s books like The Jungle Book and for poems like ‘If—’. But Kipling’s short stories for adults often get overlooked – a fact which is perhaps hardly surprising given... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2022-05-18 14:00:38 UTC ]
LESLIE BRODY’S new biography, Sometimes You Have to Lie, describes the life of Louise Fitzhugh, author of the classic children’s book Harriet the Spy. Originally published in 1964 by Harper and Row, Harriet has never been out of print and has inspired multiple adaptations and spin-offs,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-02 13:30:00 UTC ]
On “Mondays With Michelle Obama,” which begins today at 12pm EST, and will run from through May 11, the former first lady will livestream a reading of a classic children’s book as part of the PBS Kids Read-Along series. She joins an ever-expanding pool of celebrities reading books for kids... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-20 14:10:58 UTC ]
If you thought the Choose Your Own Adventure books were magical, one Sri Lankan children’s book author might be up your alley. Sybil Wettasinghe, the 90-year-old author of The Umbrella Thief, a classic children’s book in Sri Lanka, set a new Guinness World Record yesterday with the publication... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-06 19:45:46 UTC ]
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie has been criticized, and lauded, as a parable of the welfare state. Both sides have it wrong. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-02-28 16:14:35 UTC ]
Margaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s book Goodnight Moon was published on this day in 1947. It’s widely beloved, well-reviewed, and much parodied, and also hated intensely by a serious few. You know where this is going—I compile at least one of these one-star reviews pieces a month, but I... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-09-03 08:50:11 UTC ]
Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel The Witches is being turned into a graphic novel after Gallimard in France struck a deal with the Roald Dahl Story Company. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Other Palace, a London theatre owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Theatres Group, will this autumn stage an adaptation of Ted Hughes’ classic children’s book The Iron Woman (Faber Children’s). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Bond’s final book about the accident-prone bear will be published next year on the anniversary of the author’s deathA final adventure for Paddington Bear, in which the marmalade-loving magnet for trouble visits St Paul’s Cathedral, will be published in June 2018, a year after the death... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Original Winnie the Pooh drawings will be on show at the V&A for the first time in almost 40 years as part of the UK’s largest exhibition on the classic children's character created by author A A Milne and illustrator E H Shepard. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facing outrage over a book of parodies of classic children's book covers, Abrams has agreed to a request from the author to stop publishing the title. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Children’s will next month publish a new edition of Arthur Ransome's classic children's book Swallows and Amazons to tie-in with the new film adaptation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
See pictures from the ceremony awarding Judith Kerr, the author behind classic children’s books such as The Tiger Who Came to Tea, the BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Judith Kerr, the author behind classic children’s books such as The Tiger Came to Tea, will be presented with this year’s BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award today. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Olivia Colman lends her voice to the role of mum in Channel 4's animated adaptation of the classic children's book We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]