The books are back. Picture books. Science books. Books about art and sports and history. Fiction and nonfiction. Books for beginners and beyond. On Saturday, April 30, the annual Children’s Book Party will be back in Balboa Park’s Spreckels Organ Pavilion, where book-party founder Roosevelt Brown will spend the morning distributing piles of books to […]
Biff, Chip and Kipper: Former headteacher on book withdrawal Oxford University publishers have apologised and pulped the Oxford Reading Tree book, which is a part of a collection of books used to encourage children to read in classrooms across the UK. The book – The Blue Eye – published in 2001 by Roderick Hunt sees […]
A prepublication version of the first Harry Potter book by JK Rowling is expected to fetch at least £20,000 when it is auctioned this week. The galley proof (a publishing term for the printed version of a book before its final proofread) is the only known surviving copy of its kind. A first edition of […]
Children’s Book Council of Iran asks publishers to respect copyrights – Tehran Times TEHRAN – Children’s Book Council of Iran on April 23, which is celebrated as World Book and Copyright Day, asked Iranian publishers of children’s books to respect copyrights. In a statement, the council celebrated the occasion and said, “Although Iran has not […]
RSS ideologue Ratan Sharda’s latest book, with Yashwant Pathak, is devoted to explaining the RSS’ approach towards resolving some of the most critical internal conflict situations India has faced since Independence Author and columnist Ratan Sharda is so committed to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh — better known as the RSS — that seven out of […]
World Book Day: 5 Books that will spark your child’s mathematical imaginations Kahekashan Hans News Service | 23 April 2022 6:15 AM GMT World Book Day: 5 Books that will spark your child’s mathematical imaginations Highlights On the occasion of World Book Day, we have curated a list of books that you should introduce to […]
Iredell-Statesville Schools in central North Carolina have dealt with near nonstop book challenges and read-alouds over the last six months during school board meetings. Moms For Liberty has a large and vocal presence in the community, and that group led the efforts to challenge 75 books in the district. One of the leaders of the […]
Publishers say the popularity of readers discussing their favourite books on TikTok helped lift sales to record levels in the UK in 2021. Total book sales rose 5% to £6.7bn last year, with fiction, children’s and young adult all performing well, the Publishers Association said. The organisation said four of the top five young adult […]
“Bans sell books.” You don’t have to go far online to find that bit of conventional wisdom. For example, today my delightfully bookish Twitter feed showed me Upton Sinclair’s thoughts on the matter from 1927. And in my two decades in book publishing, I’ve repeated variations on the theme many times. “Bans lead to publicity. […]
One of the judges who helped to collate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee reading list has defended snubbing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors was compiled with the help of librarians from across the UK – along with readers in 54 countries – in a five-month search. Over the […]