Posted on January 15, 2024 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Author Judy Blume will receive the first-ever Eleanor Roosevelt Lifetime Achievement Award for Bravery in Literature; organizers also announced the inaugural Roosevelt award-winning "authors and books that advance human rights in the face of an alarming rise in book banning and censorship" (The Associated Press).
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Winter weather wasn't the only danger that Minnesota libraries had to deal with recently: several locations were the targets of bomb threats over the past week (Book Riot).
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Watercolor artist Robert Andrew Parker, who illustrated dozens of children's books in addition to other textual works, has died the age of ninety-seven (The New York Times).
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Massachusetts lawmakers have presented bills in both the House and Senate that would prevent books' removals from schools or libraries over personal or political beliefs (Book Riot).
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