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'Moon Over Manifest' , by Clare Vanderpool | Photo 02

Caldecott & Newbery Medal Winners 2010: Dissed by Today Show

2011 Caldecott and Newbery Medal Winners Lose Today Show Coverage to Snooki When the 2010 ALA Caldecott Medal and Newbery Medal winners were announced, they didn't get the media time normally allotted, not that...

created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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What Does A Scrotum Have To Do With Quality Literature?

JFK once said that “a child miseducated is a child lost”. This came to mind the other day whilst listening to the idiotic banter about Susan Patron’s great work of art, “The Higher Power of Lucky” and her use of the word “scrotum” therein. Patron’s book ...

created by christina erl daniels | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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A book where children simply speak their truth

""Mom used to be a stripper." So begins Deborah Ellis's novel Looking for X, which won a Governor-General's award for children's literature a few years ago. It does rather make you want to read on, doesn't it? The narrator, Khyber, is 11. She has two brothers....