An auction featuring artwork from illustrators including Axel Scheffler, Oliver Jeffers, Tony Ross and Lauren Child has raised £5,000 in a few days for refugees in Greece. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comedian Rosie Jones has added another string to her bow by authoring a children’s book series—the sort of titles she says she needed as a child Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-24 00:06:18 UTC ]
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Andersen Press and art events company Wild in Art have now raised more than £1m for UK charities after a recent auction secured £312,750 for the Heart of Kent Hospice. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-12 18:31:50 UTC ]
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They deal with homework, teenage romance — and often, larger burdens, Elly Fishman writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Book Reviews The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Photo by Steven Taylor / Flickr The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s first novel, is textually connected to the works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston,... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2021-08-18 20:12:10 UTC ]
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Last week, Apple previewed a number of updates meant to beef up child safety features on its devices. Among them: a new technology that can scan the photos on users’ devices in order to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Though the change was widely praised by some lawmakers and child... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-08-12 18:30:29 UTC ]
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He was also a contentious defender of traditional education and architect of neoconservative foreign policy. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-12 08:47:01 UTC ]
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The latest picture book from illustrator Oliver Jeffers will hit bookshops later than planned this year because hardbacks are still at sea after the "Ever Given" ship became lodged in the Suez Canal in March. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-09 14:36:13 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired a new picture book from illustrator Axel Scheffler and author Franz Wittkamp, a collection of quirky rhymes about cats for pre-schoolers and their families. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-07 03:42:25 UTC ]
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Holland House, the tiny indie behind Karen Jennings' An Island, has reprinted 5,000 more copies and attracted foreign rights interest after the novel won the press its first ever Booker nomination. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-06 23:49:09 UTC ]
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Last week, the Biden administration called on Congress to extend a federal ban on evictions that health officials implemented last year as a response to the pandemic, citing the White House’s view that a recent Supreme Court ruling prohibited it from taking unilateral action. On Friday—with the... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-08-03 12:35:32 UTC ]
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Omar El Akkad’s novel about a Syrian boy’s panicked flight is a testament to the impossible predicament confronted by millions of people. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-07-26 13:39:31 UTC ]
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Lauren Child's latest story focuses on Christmas in a Clarice Bean story that is full of empathy and hope Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-17 02:08:43 UTC ]
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The United Kingdom's Book Aid International has made donations of more than 160,000 books in nine countries to refugee youngsters. The post World Refugee Day Observances: Book Aid Highlights Its Outreach appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-06-29 20:02:19 UTC ]
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Amazon is destroying tens of thousands of items of unsold stock, including "books galore" in one of its UK warehouses every week, according to an ITV News investigation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-21 23:55:57 UTC ]
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Former Review Bookshop manager Katia Wengraf has raised more than £10,000 online to help fund her new independent store, Mount Florida Books, in a former tattoo parlour in Glasgow. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-20 21:34:09 UTC ]
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'The biggest threat to our industry post-Brexit,' says the Publishers Association, is an 'international copyright exhaustion framework.' The post UK Book Publishing Industry Raises Copyright Alarm: ‘Save Our Books’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-06-07 17:22:58 UTC ]
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More than 30 people raised $8.35 million to buy the building that houses Warwick's bookstore in La Jolla, Calif., saving it from having to move from where it has operated since 1952. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Petition signed by more than 200 Simon & Schuster employees delivered to publishing house also calls for end to deals with members of Trump administrationMore than 200 members of staff at Simon & Schuster have signed a petition calling for the publishing house to cancel its seven-figure... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-04-27 13:55:17 UTC ]
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Indie Shindig, a virtual event series for booksellers created by half a dozen publishers, aims to raise up to $18,000 for We Need Diverse Books and Binc. Author Gayle Forman and Penguin Books for Young Readers are contributing sales of Forman's new novel to Binc's "Thrive to Survive" campaign. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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