Posted on January 19, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Congratulations are in order for author Meg Medina, who is our new national ambassador for young people's literature! The Library...

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Posted on January 11, 2023 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

NPR's Planet Money podcast embarked on an experiment recently, in a third-grade classroom. And the results were ... somewhat unexpected....

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Posted on December 27, 2022 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author Nikki Grimes hasn't lived the career she would've predicted. But that's okay — heck, it's better than okay. She...

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Posted on December 27, 2022 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

This past fall, publishing expert Joanna Penn featured a few interviews that focused specifically on literature that wasn't text only,...

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Posted on December 22, 2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kathryn Jezer-Morton's essay on children's literature might first seem like a bit of a downer. Her children are voracious readers...

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Posted on December 16, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A fair number of bookworms will bemoan the increase in celebrity books, whether tell-all memoir or children's story. And at...

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Posted on December 13, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Want to read an AI-generated book to your kids? Want your kids to use AI to write their own stories?...

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Posted on December 10, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

In the past few months, Dave Chesson's Kindlepreneur blog has shared genre-specific writing prompts. If you're thinking about trying (or...

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Posted on October 24, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Two articles on upcoming books from celebrities have decidedly different tones. One, from the Associated Press, is celebratory: singer-songwriter Lucinda...

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Posted on October 19, 2022 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Best-of lists are always so subjective, but we hope this one will only inspire friendly disagreement at worst — and...

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