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NEW VOICES: OPENING THE BOOK WITH… CHRISTINA MEREDITH
Today we’re introducing you to Christina Meredith, debut author of KISS CRUSH COLLIDE and one of our Winter 2012 New Voices. Yesterday we shared an excerpt of the book (READ IT HERE!), and a few words from Christina’s editor, Virginia Duncan, on why and how this story spoke to her. Appropriately, this story is really about [...]
NEW VOICES, A WORD FROM THE EDITOR: KISS CRUSH COLLIDE
We haven’t forgotten about New Voices, and we hope you haven’t either! Our next book in this series promoting debut authors, KISS CRUSH COLLIDE, by Christina Meredith, we’ve been saving for this very week, so perhaps you can guess what it’s about? Good answer– love. While this is a steamy novel about that kind of attraction that hits [...]
AUDREY VERNICK ADOPTS A SCHOOL- P.S. 184
I set up a lot of school visits in the course of the year, but few warm my heart as much as the annual Adopt-a-School visit. The Adopt-a-School Initiative is a collaboration between the American Association of Publishers, the Children’s Book Council, the NYC Department of Education, school librarians, and publishing houses. The program sends [...]
HARPERCOLLINS’ WINTER/SUMMER ’12 LIBRARIAN PREVIEW
Last week, we hosted a preview of our Winter and Summer 2012 lists for our terrific tri-state librarian friends, trading bagels and coffee for their undivided attention so very early in the morning. Our wonderful and very cheerful editors presented their upcoming books, and lucky for me, that meant I could eavesdrop at each table and hear booktalks of [...]
BBW Booktalk: GEOGRAPHY CLUB
Banned Books Week goes on and today’s booktalk is GEOGRAPHY CLUB by Brent Hartinger. It was successfully banned for its homosexual content in Brent’s own hometown in 2005 – read Brent’s great post about it – and has continued to appear on the most challenged lists. In Brent’s blog post, he quotes a local parent [...]
BBW Booktalk: ANGUS, THONGS, AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING
A regular on the top banned and challenged books list, ANGUS, THONGS, AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING by the fabulous Louise Rennison has a cult following (um, include me in that cult!). The book has been challenged for a multitude of reasons: age inappropriateness, profanity, and sexual content. It has also made the Top 100 list, which [...]
BBW Booktalk: IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN
Like BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA yesterday, Maurice Sendak’s IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN makes the list for one of the top 100 most frequently banned books of the decade, 1990-2000. It was also made the Top 10 most challenged book of 2004. It’ll be no surprise to those of you familiar with the book that the sticking [...]
BBW Booktalk: BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
In addition to appearing on the list regularly, Katherine Paterson’s BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA was a Top 10 Banned Book in 2003. It is also ranked in the Top 10 Banned Books of the decade, 1990-2010. It has been challenged and banned for using the lord’s name in vain, secular humanism, occultism, offensive language, and death [...]
Banned Books Week: Booktalks
It’s well-known in book-ish circles that it’s Banned Books Week. This week is a wonderful celebration of the freedom to read and to raise awareness against censorship. But one thing that comes up each year – by myself, included – is that Banned Books Week needs to happen every day of the year. As book [...]
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