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Join SLJ editors on Thursday, November 21, 8 pm EST, during the third annual SLJ Best Books Twitter party, as they reveal the titles that made the 2013 SLJ Best Books list. From picture books to graphic novels and nonfiction to Adult Books for Teens, this year’s picks exemplify the stellar offerings created by authors, illustrators, and publishers of kids’ books
Take a look at the latest round of comments, letters to the editor, and corrections from SLJ's November issue. Librarians give suggestions for NYPL's 100 Great Children's Books list. Could the embrace of technology by librarians be the cause of library budget cuts?
There are many reasons to write novels in verse, according to author Terry Farish: To reflect a culture’s music and literary heritage; to offer reprises of a language's rhythm; to create a fast pace that mirrors the character’s own ride; to bring the cinematic camera intimately close.
The new operating system of Amazon's tablet, the Kindle Fire, integrates social reading platform Goodreads, enabling users to rate and review books, track personal reading lists, share quotes, and see what friends are reading.
Barbara Park, creator of the loveable and impish children’s book character Junie B. Jones, died on November 15 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 66.
Written by Native American authors, the novels in the "PathFinders" series tell fascinating, fast-paced stories about contemporary and historical Native American teens. Publisher 7th Generation is giving SLJTeen readers an opportunity to win a set of all four titles in the "PathFinders" series.
Fifty Connecticut schoolchildren joined ALA president Barbara Stripling, library officials, and other Connecticut residents for a signing of the Declaration for the Right to Libraries at the Hartford Public Library.
The Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) Library Service to Special Population Children and Their Caregivers committee is now accepting online applications for the 2014 Candlewick Light the Way grant, $3000 specifically earmarked to promote library outreach to underserved and special populations.
"Okay, it’s time for us (and the real Newbery committee) to submit two more nominations for the month of November," writes Jonathan Hunt, on the blog Heavy Medal.
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