Three bodies, three different towns. Each victim was a sorority girl --- pretty, privileged, and brutally murdered. There are no fingerprints, no clues.
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Congratulations to Toon Books for winning the coveted Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor from the American Library Association. Toon Books was founded by Françoise Mouly, who is the art editor for
The New Yorker, and Art Spiegelman (legendary creator of
Maus) to supply age-appropriate graphic novels for kids four and older. They won the award for the book
Stinky by Eleanor Davis.
February 3, 2009
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New York Comic-Con was last weekend. This is an event that has been going on since 2006 and growing steadily every year. It’s a crowded, joyful, exuberant, energy-filled weekend where fans, creators, and about 75,000 other people associated with the industry can meet up. It’s beyond fun.
New York Comic-Con was last weekend. This is an event that has been going on since 2006 and growing steadily every year. It’s a crowded, joyful, exuberant, energy-filled weekend where fans, creators, and about 75,000 other people associated with the industry can meet up. It’s beyond fun.
Whenever I wander into a bookstore, which happens to occur quite frequently, I seek out the comics, the graphic novels, and the manga sections immediately. And although I might be there to see what is new, I often find myself taking time to talk to the many young readers scattered in those particular aisles.
Feb 2, 2009
In this interview with Kidsreads.com's Chris Shanley-Dillman, award-winning author Pam Muñoz Ryan explains how both her childhood love of horses and a suggestion from an editor prompted her to write her 2007 novel PAINT THE WIND (now available in paperback) and describes learning how to horseback ride as part of her research. She also reveals the inspirations behind her characters' unique names and shares details about a future book set to be released next year.
February 2009
HEROES AMONG US reminds us all of the courage and dignity it takes to stand up for oneself and those around us. By chronicling such bravery, veteran journalist John Quiñones captures America's can-do spirit and shows that through the slightest good deed, each one of us harbors a hero within.
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February 2009
Joon is a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father’s infidelity; he has left the family, and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of 13, decides she would be better off on her own, a choice that commences a harrowing and often tragic journey that exposes the painful difficulties of a life lived on the margins.
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February 2009
The civil rights movement of the 1960s may have afforded legal equality to African Americans, but that doesn't mean attitudes instantly changed. Jennifer Baszile, now a history professor at Yale, records her childhood in 1970s and ’80s suburbia as one of the only black girls around.
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February 2009
The former manager of the New York Yankees --- and one of its most successful --- teams up with Sports Illustrated' senior baseball writer for this unique and somewhat baffling presentation. Although Joe Torre gets top billing as the nominative author, the reader will get the impression that Tom Verducci is telling the story, since the narrative is written in the third person. Reviewed by Ron Kaplan.
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