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When a Supreme Court justice retires, there's a lot of speculation and political maneuvering regarding the replacement. Find out how Supreme Court justices are nominated, who is qualified to serve and how a nominee is approved.

2022 Youth Media Award winners announced—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz awards.

We asked staffers at childrens publishing houses to tell us about their favorite childrens or YA book they read this year.

Oneota Reading Journal Significant Others III Voices of Young Adults from Georgia Reviews, winter 2015.

Publishers and editors discuss their efforts to broaden their lists to reach those in underrepresented communities.

By Diane Patrick and Calvin Reid | May 14, 2021 The power of literature to address the history of the oppression of Indigenous peoples in North America and chart their futures has never been more important. As the U.S. experiences a wave of popular concern about social justice issues, publishers are really just beginning to embrace a growing number of works on such topics as ancestral domains and land rights of Indigenous communities; preservation of their languages, traditions...

Copy shortlink: Twenty years ago, I picked up a blank book and began tracking seasonal events in our neighborhood. Ive never stopped. In late winter, I document the first time a sunrise is accompanied by cardinal song and the first afternoon punctuated by a steady drip of meltwater. I await the green haze of new leaves across the landscape in spring, and the flicker of bats feeding on insects at dusk. Summer brings fledgling birds begging at the feeder and muskrats zigza...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Miriam at the River and Beni’s War from Kar-Ben Publishing® Receive Association of Jewish ... Lerner Publishing GroupJanuary 25, 2021 GMT Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jan. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Miriam at the River, a picture book written by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Khoa Le, and Beni’s War, a middle-grade novel by Tammar Stein, have been named named a Sydney Taylor Honor Book and Sydney Tay...

Author Jenna Grodzicki. COURTESY PHOTO  The sometimes weird and sometimes spectacular adornments of wild creatures inspired author Jenna Grodzicki of Chatham to write “Wild Style: Amazing Animal Adornments” (Millbrook Press, 2021). “Hats. Jewelry. Makeup. Perfume. People wear accessories every day. But humans aren’t the only ones with a flair for fashion,” Grodzicki writes. For wild creatures, “The right look, though, can make all the difference.” While the illustrated book is bi...

Childrens Publishers Choose Their Favorite Reads of 2020 Compiled by Diane Roback | Dec 22, 2020 We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year, frontlist or backlist, and what they loved about it. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published. Happy reading! Jamie Tan, senior publicist, Candlewick Press I’ve been craving the kind of books that I would devour ...