SLJ Blogs

"Good poetry does not just sound pretty. It tells the truth and reaches you whether you are ready for it or not, and Hughes has always had that kind of staying power." Happy April! We love Poetry Month and we love today's book.

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"I think we all have experienced the outsider status of being an illustrator whose work is photographic." Meet a slew of talented photographers, alongside a featured interview with curator/scholar Leonard Marcus himself!

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What I don’t look forward to is not being able to discuss these books, and their writers, with you.

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I’m excited to share with you that I’ve been selected to be a judge on the National Young People’s Literature Award Committee.

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ALA gives out comics awards now? How did that happen? How do you join? And what books are they awarding? We speak to the Chair of the GNCRT to find out all the answers to all these questions.

The post Meet the Outstanding Comics Award and All That It Entails: A Talk with Jennie Law appeared first on A Fuse #8 Production.

"A chocolate chicken is not a thing." And yet here we are. Somehow we've not seen this particular Easter book on this podcast before. How will it fare amongst the pantheon of Max books?

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