Every era has its own fairy tales—fables that teach children what a princess looks like, and what monsters they should fear. According to the short stories in Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado’s exhilarating debut collection, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction, our... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2017-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new book that purports to teach children about communism, published by MIT Press, has caused an outcry from a handful of conservative media outlets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A set of books have been written to teach children about the Treaty of Waitangi. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic has taken over from OUP as distributor of the PM reading series by Cengage Learning. The PM reading series is used by schools across the world a to teach children to read. Under the terms of the deal, Scholastic will distribute the series in the UK and export markets in Europe, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]