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Books in the News

Freeing the Elephants: What Babar Brought

The Lion and the Mouse: The Battle that Reshaped Children's Literature

A Writing Tip from Charlesbridge Editor Randi Rivers

StoryTubes YouTube Contest

National Book Foundation News

Drop Everything and Read Day April 12

Harriet the Spy on NPR

Connections:  Worlds Outfoxed by a Wily Inner Child

HarperCollins Will Post Free Books on the Web

Stephen King: Books With Batteries -- Why Not?

King and King Reign in Pennsylvania

YA Authors Rally Behind Fired Librarian

God in the Dust (The Golden Compass Controversy)

Lion and Unicorn Poetry Award

Lion and the Unicorn Award Essay for Excellence in North American Poetry

Librarians Say Surveillance Bills Lack Adequate Oversight

Celebrate Little Toot's 100th Birthday

Libel Without Borders

The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2006

Child's Play on the Crabgrass Frontier: The Baby-Boom Cartoons of Stan and Jan Berenstain Traveling Exhibition (PDF file)

Seven Roads Gallery of Book Trade Labels

Books on the Battlefield Conference, University of York (UK)

Chris Van Allsburg Story Writing Program

With One Word, Children's Book Sets Off Uproar

Do Not Restrict Access to These Two Books

The Joy of Reading - CNN News

Books will disappear. Print is where words go to die.

Stiff Competition for Bad Sex Award - Guardian Unlimited (UK)

Reading Fires Imagination of Children

The Libri Foundation's BOOKS FOR CHILDREN Grants

The Philadelphia Inquirer Book Reviews

National Magazine Taps Librarian Expertise with Debut of Online Book Club


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