Impossible things : Live Updates Every Minute from 25K+ News Agencies Across the Globe
Books to look out for in 2021
Books to look out for in 2021
Irish fiction
New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation.
Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.”
Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Photograph: Alan Betson
Books to look out for in 2021
Irish fiction
New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation.
Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.”
Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Photograph: Alan Betson
Poetic champions and fiction greats
Art imitates life and the novels of 2021 confirm just how true this is. Writers, like everyone else, found themselves confined this year and the result is the recurring leitmotif of family, pervading almost every fiction genre from crime to coming-of-age novels, from historical fiction right through to dystopia. Here are some examples from the leading titles of the new year.
January
Billy O'Callaghan's Life Sentences (Jonathan Cape) is a family saga sweeping from famine Ireland right through to the 1980s. The Push (Penguin) by Ashley Audrain is a psychological thriller about a mother who believes her daughter to be bad, with shades ofWe Need to Talk About Kevin.
Art imitates life and the novels of 2021 confirm just how true this is. Writers, like everyone else, found themselves confined this year and the result is the recurring leitmotif of family, pervading almost every fiction genre from crime to coming-of-age novels, from historical fiction right through to dystopia. Here are some examples from the leading titles of the new year.
January
Billy O'Callaghan's Life Sentences (Jonathan Cape) is a family saga sweeping from famine Ireland right through to the 1980s. The Push (Penguin) by Ashley Audrain is a psychological thriller about a mother who believes her daughter to be bad, with shades ofWe Need to Talk About Kevin.
Middle Ground Book Fest: A Panel on Comedy and Gravity
By Sarah Yung
|
Aug 06, 2020
On August 1–2, the first Middle Ground Book Fest took place in the digital sphere, bringing together authors, educators, librarians, and book lovers for a free celebration of middle grade literature.
Partnering with independent bookstore RJ Julia in Madison, Conn., the event was organized by debut authors Shannon Doleski (
Mary Underwater, Abrams/Amulet), Tanya Guerrero (
How to Make Friends with the Sea, FSG), Lorien Lawrence (
The Stitchers, Abrams/Amulet), and Janae Marks (
From the Desk of Zoe Washington, HarperCollins/Tegen).
Panels can be found on the festival’s YouTube channel and pre-taped mini-lessons are available for educators and librarians for the upcoming school year.
By Sarah Yung
|
Aug 06, 2020
On August 1–2, the first Middle Ground Book Fest took place in the digital sphere, bringing together authors, educators, librarians, and book lovers for a free celebration of middle grade literature.
Partnering with independent bookstore RJ Julia in Madison, Conn., the event was organized by debut authors Shannon Doleski (
Mary Underwater, Abrams/Amulet), Tanya Guerrero (
How to Make Friends with the Sea, FSG), Lorien Lawrence (
The Stitchers, Abrams/Amulet), and Janae Marks (
From the Desk of Zoe Washington, HarperCollins/Tegen).
Panels can be found on the festival’s YouTube channel and pre-taped mini-lessons are available for educators and librarians for the upcoming school year.
[email protected]: Here's your Sunday schedule [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
[email protected]: Here’s your Sunday schedule [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
On the last day of what would have been its 51st year, Comic-Con serves up a mix of familiar names like actor Nathan Fillion and comic book artist Kevin Eastman and his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
This year’s edition will happen virtually in what’s being billed as [email protected] because of COVID-19. All panels will be broadcast at Youtube.com/user/ComicCon.
Sunday, traditionally Comic-Con’s family-centric day, usually kicks off with “Supernatural,” but the TV show’s cast isn’t on the bill this year, though a panel later in the day — “Supernatural Therapy: Fighting Internal Monsters like a Hunter IRL” — has some loose ties to the show, which is currently in its last season on CW.
[email protected]: Here’s your Sunday schedule [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
On the last day of what would have been its 51st year, Comic-Con serves up a mix of familiar names like actor Nathan Fillion and comic book artist Kevin Eastman and his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
This year’s edition will happen virtually in what’s being billed as [email protected] because of COVID-19. All panels will be broadcast at Youtube.com/user/ComicCon.
Sunday, traditionally Comic-Con’s family-centric day, usually kicks off with “Supernatural,” but the TV show’s cast isn’t on the bill this year, though a panel later in the day — “Supernatural Therapy: Fighting Internal Monsters like a Hunter IRL” — has some loose ties to the show, which is currently in its last season on CW.
[email protected]: Here's your Sunday schedule
Print
On the last day of what would have been its 51st year, Comic-Con serves up a mix of familiar names like actor Nathan Fillion and comic book artist Kevin Eastman and his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
This year’s edition will happen virtually in what’s being billed as [email protected] because of COVID-19. All panels will be broadcast at Youtube.com/user/ComicCon.
Sunday, traditionally Comic-Con’s family-centric day, usually kicks off with “Supernatural,” but the TV show’s cast isn’t on the bill this year, though a panel later in the day — “Supernatural Therapy: Fighting Internal Monsters like a Hunter IRL” — has some loose ties to the show, which is currently in its last season on CW.
On the last day of what would have been its 51st year, Comic-Con serves up a mix of familiar names like actor Nathan Fillion and comic book artist Kevin Eastman and his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
This year’s edition will happen virtually in what’s being billed as [email protected] because of COVID-19. All panels will be broadcast at Youtube.com/user/ComicCon.
Sunday, traditionally Comic-Con’s family-centric day, usually kicks off with “Supernatural,” but the TV show’s cast isn’t on the bill this year, though a panel later in the day — “Supernatural Therapy: Fighting Internal Monsters like a Hunter IRL” — has some loose ties to the show, which is currently in its last season on CW.
Spring 2020 Children's Announcements: Publishers A-E
Goolz Next Door welcomes
The Truce concludes Angie Smibert’s
Ghosts of Ordinary Objects (May 26, $17.99, ISBN 978-1-62979-852-3), ages 10–14.
Boyds Mills & Kane/Calkins Creek
Fight of the Century: Alice Paul
Battles Woodrow Wilson for the Vote by Barb Rosenstock, illus. by Sarah Green (Feb. 25, $18.99, ISBN 978-1-62979-908-7). Framed as a boxing match, this story recounts the fight for women’s suffrage that played out between women’s rights leader Paul and President Wilson. Ages 7–10.
Jacob Riis’s Camera: Bringing Light to Tenement Children by Alexis O’Neill, illus. by Gary Kelley (May 5, $18.99, ISBN 978-1-62979-866-0), profiles photojournalist and social reformer Riis and his work to solve New York City’s tenement crisis in the late 1800s. Ages 7–10.
Goolz Next Door welcomes
The Truce concludes Angie Smibert’s
Ghosts of Ordinary Objects (May 26, $17.99, ISBN 978-1-62979-852-3), ages 10–14.
Boyds Mills & Kane/Calkins Creek
Fight of the Century: Alice Paul
Battles Woodrow Wilson for the Vote by Barb Rosenstock, illus. by Sarah Green (Feb. 25, $18.99, ISBN 978-1-62979-908-7). Framed as a boxing match, this story recounts the fight for women’s suffrage that played out between women’s rights leader Paul and President Wilson. Ages 7–10.
Jacob Riis’s Camera: Bringing Light to Tenement Children by Alexis O’Neill, illus. by Gary Kelley (May 5, $18.99, ISBN 978-1-62979-866-0), profiles photojournalist and social reformer Riis and his work to solve New York City’s tenement crisis in the late 1800s. Ages 7–10.
Novels | WORLD News Group
Issue Date: February 29, 2020
“This book started with an image: a very formal butler standing on a stoop of a normal suburban house, on the first day of the oldest kid’s sixth-grade year, in the rain,” explained Gary D. Schmidt, author of
Pay Attention, Carter Jones (Clarion Books, ages 10-12). “That whole image was there before anything else, and obviously, the question is: Why is he there?”
At the Jones household, there’s a lot more going on than the first day of school. The family is falling apart. Capt. Jackson Jones, aka Dad, is on deployment in Germany, and a recent tragedy makes his absence doubly stressful. Mr. Bowles-Fitzpatrick has arrived to bring word of the passing of Capt. Jones’ father, a grandfather the children never met, but who left them, as it were, a butler.
Issue Date: February 29, 2020
“This book started with an image: a very formal butler standing on a stoop of a normal suburban house, on the first day of the oldest kid’s sixth-grade year, in the rain,” explained Gary D. Schmidt, author of
Pay Attention, Carter Jones (Clarion Books, ages 10-12). “That whole image was there before anything else, and obviously, the question is: Why is he there?”
At the Jones household, there’s a lot more going on than the first day of school. The family is falling apart. Capt. Jackson Jones, aka Dad, is on deployment in Germany, and a recent tragedy makes his absence doubly stressful. Mr. Bowles-Fitzpatrick has arrived to bring word of the passing of Capt. Jones’ father, a grandfather the children never met, but who left them, as it were, a butler.
Kids' writing contest 'Ungoverned Children' returns for 8th year at the Bookworm
[email protected]
The winners and runners up of each age group will be published together in the 8th edition of “Ungoverned Children.”
Jackie Cooper | Special to the Daily
if you go ...
Where: The Bookworm of Edwards
When: Jan. 31 at 6 p.m.
Cost: Tickets $5, includes snacks
More information: Visit bookwormofedwards.com
or call 970-926-7323.
Children and young adults have a unique ability to find beauty and magic in the ordinary, which means they’re often good at inventing tales of wonder and exploration. Such stories will soon fill the pages of another edition of “Ungoverned Children.”
The Bookworm of Edwards will launch its eighth annual “Ungoverned Children” Writing Contest on Friday. Novelist Melanie Crowder, author of “The Lighthouse Between The Worlds” and other titles, will host this year’s launch — a creative writing event for kids with prompts and brainstorming to inspire their stories.
[email protected]
The winners and runners up of each age group will be published together in the 8th edition of “Ungoverned Children.”
Jackie Cooper | Special to the Daily
if you go ...
Where: The Bookworm of Edwards
When: Jan. 31 at 6 p.m.
Cost: Tickets $5, includes snacks
More information: Visit bookwormofedwards.com
or call 970-926-7323.
Children and young adults have a unique ability to find beauty and magic in the ordinary, which means they’re often good at inventing tales of wonder and exploration. Such stories will soon fill the pages of another edition of “Ungoverned Children.”
The Bookworm of Edwards will launch its eighth annual “Ungoverned Children” Writing Contest on Friday. Novelist Melanie Crowder, author of “The Lighthouse Between The Worlds” and other titles, will host this year’s launch — a creative writing event for kids with prompts and brainstorming to inspire their stories.
First Madeleine L'Engle Conference Held in New York City
First Madeleine L'Engle Conference Held in New York City
Childrenâs book authors formed an integral part of this conference that honored LâEngleâs spirit by lifting up a variety of voices
By Krystyna Poray Goddu
|
Nov 26, 2019
Nearly 200 participants, including a distinguished roster of children’s book authors, gathered on November 16 at All Angels Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where author Madeleine L’Engle was a member for many years, to discuss how faith and art inform each other at Walking on Water: The Madeleine L’Engle Conference. Taking its title from L’Engle’s 1972 book,
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, the event was organized by Brian Allain of Writing for Your Life, a resource center for spiritual writers; Charlotte Jones Voiklis, L’Engle’s granddaughter, literary executor and co-author, with her sister Léna Roy, of the middle-grade biography
First Madeleine L'Engle Conference Held in New York City
Childrenâs book authors formed an integral part of this conference that honored LâEngleâs spirit by lifting up a variety of voices
By Krystyna Poray Goddu
|
Nov 26, 2019
Nearly 200 participants, including a distinguished roster of children’s book authors, gathered on November 16 at All Angels Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where author Madeleine L’Engle was a member for many years, to discuss how faith and art inform each other at Walking on Water: The Madeleine L’Engle Conference. Taking its title from L’Engle’s 1972 book,
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, the event was organized by Brian Allain of Writing for Your Life, a resource center for spiritual writers; Charlotte Jones Voiklis, L’Engle’s granddaughter, literary executor and co-author, with her sister Léna Roy, of the middle-grade biography
