Friday Links List - 26 July 2019

From The University of Minnesota: a GREAT review for Merbaby's Lullaby!

From SCBWI-British Isles: ME! SCBWI-BI LONGEST SERVING MEMBERS Elizabeth Dulemba

From Perry Nodelman: "After years of procrastination, I’ve finally managed to put together a web page for myself. I’ve included a long list of links to downloadable PDF versions of many of my publications about various aspects of children's literature, including essays and other pieces that first appeared as long ago as the 1970s and as recently as last year. The website is here: perrynodelman.com And the list of available PDFs is on the page called “Essays about Children’s Literature”"

From Architectural Digest: This Tiny Traveling Bookstore Wanders the French Countryside

From PBS American Masters: Ursula K. Le Guin

From Prepare to be a Pioneer: Diverse Faculty Retention Tips

From The New Yorker: Why J.M. Barrie Created Peter Pan

From SLJ's 100 Scope Notes: Gallery: The Art of the Picture Book Barcode 2019

Interesting new blog! Design of the Picture Book

And from The Paris Review: Sorry, Peter Pan, We're Over You (Considering I spent most of this summer singing the Broadway version of Peter Pan with my fellow faculty, I don't agree!)

From Chronicle Vitae: How to Start Off Right in Your New Job Relevant to me right now!

From Muddy Colors: Hands and Feet

From The British Fantasy Society: British Fantasy Awards 2019

From Forbes: The Best Fantasy Novels Of All Time

Brightly is giving away 30 Children's Books!

Also from Brightly: 10 Binge-Worthy Middle Grade Series

From PW: Refugee Novel Arrives on U.S. Shelves After U.K. Success This novel was all the talk when I was in the UK!

From The Guardian: Story time: the five children’s books every adult should read

From The Bookseller: Call for community libraries to be included in PLR payments Would be good to have this in the USA too!!! (Basically, authors would get a royalty every time their books are checked out - just like musicians get royalties when their music is played.)

From Science: Most Wikipedia Profiles Are of Men. This Scientist Is Changing That. THIS is why I volunteer for the Women in Red project!

From The Good News Network: Tom Hanks Becomes Mr. Rogers in Newly Released Trailer for ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Click to watch the trailer!

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