Friday Links List



From JSTOR: How American Librarians Helped Defeat the Nazis

From the New York Times: A Bird’s-Eye View of a Technicolor World: Scientists have devised a new video system that reveals how animals see color, and us. Fascinating! Especially if you're a color geek!

From PW: The Top 10 Children's and YA Stories of 2023 - interesting!

From PW: A handy-dandy calendar of book events to plug into Google - and they're keeping it updated - YAY!!!

From TheThings via PW Children's Bookshelf: Dolly Parton Has Spent Over $500 Million On Books For Kids For A Sentimental Reason. She's my HERO!

From CBR via PW Children's Bookshelf: Percy Jackson Disney+ Series Fixes a Major YA Franchise Problem [a lack of diversity]

From TheWrap via PW Children's Bookshelf: The Best YA Shows of 2023

From The New York Times: Like His Illustrations, Leo Lionni Contained Multitudes: The illustrator of classic children’s books like “Frederick” and “Swimmy” was also a painter, sculptor, graphic designer and more.

At the Eric Carle Museum: Alphabet Soup: How Picture Books Are Made, From A to Z, January 13 - June 2, 2024

From PW: Veristage Launches Insight, an AI Platform for Book Publishers

From PW: 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award Shortlist Announced

From PW: "This spring is packed to the gills with great comics, graphic novels, and manga for all ages, which we’ve rounded up in our third annual standalone preview of the category."

Vashti Harrison is the first Black woman to win a Caldecott with her touching picture book, BIG. PW interviewed her about her win, HERE.

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