Posted on November 25, 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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Barbara Taylor Bradford, the bestselling author of some forty novels including A Woman of Substance, died Sunday at age ninety-one (The Guardian).
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NPR has released its database of the books its staff and critics loved in 2024.
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Reading Rainbow is coming to PBS's new pop-up channels on Amazon Prime; you don't have to be a Prime member or subscriber to watch for free (The Desk).
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Norway is launching a new translation prize, named after the country's 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Jon Fosse, that aims to boost a somewhat invisible and now-threatened profession (The Guardian).
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A new study is underscoring the importance of rhyming for speech and language development (School Library Journal).
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