Posted on April 6, 2026 at 3:00 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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Kelly Jensen reports that the Trump administration has, again, zeroed out the budget for the Institute of Museum and Library Services and lets freedom-to-read advocates know what they should do in response (Book Riot).
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The Rutherford County (Tennessee) Library Board fired the library system director; Luanne James has cited the First Amendment and professional obligations in refusing to move more than 100 children's books into the adult section (The Associated Press).
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Penguin Random House has filed a copyright violation lawsuit against OpenAI, saying that ChatGPT has reproduced a popular German children's book series (The Guardian).
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Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy fame will serve as the executive producer of a live-action Dungeon Crawler Carl TV series — based on Matt Dinniman's book — at Peacock (Variety).
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Eric Carle's classic picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar is now a phone game (Apple).
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