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May 27, 2021 Here we round up new and forthcoming children’s titles including stories of private school drama, a raccoon’s dumpster finds, a girl and her busy parents, a picture book biography of a pivotal painter, and many more. Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. Feiwel and Friends, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-250-80081-7. An anonymous texter known as Aces reveals secrets about an elite private school’s only two Black students in this bracing debut that explores systemic oppression in predominantly white institutions. The YA novel earned a starred review from PW. Are You a C...

Article content The Powassan and District Union Public Library is taking a page from an American-based program to promote reading and physical activity. It’s the Story Walk Project, where each page of a children’s book is attached to individual stakes lined up along a walking trail. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Powassan library introduces American-based Story Walk Project Back to video The goal is for parents to walk with their children on the trail and stop at each stake to read one of the pages until the end of the book is reached.

US First-Quarter 2021 Print Book Sales Grew 29 Percent In ebooks, the pandemic April of 2020 outsold the same month in 2019 by 5.2 million ebooks in the States, the digital acceleration in action. On Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, January 7. Image – iStockphoto: Massimo Giachetti Adult Nonfiction and Juvenile Fiction Lead Today’s (April 19) executive summary from NPD BookScan on the first quarter of 2021 sees the volume of sales in print books in the United States growing 29 percent over the same quarter in 2020. That’s representative of 205 million units, over sales of 158 units sold in Q1...

Random House Studio Unveils Launch List By Sally Lodge | Mar 02, 2021 Summer will bring the debut titles from two imprints of Random House Children’s Books, each steered by a principal of Schwartz & Wade Books, co-directed by Anne Schwartz and Lee Wade from 2005 until 2020, when the imprint was disbanded. Wade is now spearheading Random House Studio, which is spotlighted here; and later this week we will feature a profile of Schwartz’s eponymous new imprint. Random House Studio’s freshman list, v-p and publisher Wade said, is representative of “the broad and di...

Share Felicity, who is also a starring voice in Sky's Dragon Rider, joins an illustrious list of stars to take part in the weekly bedtime read, among them Tom Hardy, whose popular reading of Simon Phillip's You Must Bring A Hat went down a storm in 2016. The actor is currently the most featured star on Cbeebies Bedtime, having returned in 2017 for a reading of Helen Stephens' Fleabag, and again in 2020 with Hug Me by Simona Ciraolo. Famous footsteps: She joins an illustrious list of stars to take part in the weekly bedtime read, among them Tom Hardy Getting involved: Former Friends star Dav...