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Art Beat talks to Phillip Hoose, who last week won the National Book Award for young people's literature for "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice."
Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It, by Susan Wells (Running Press; 208 pages; $35). The movie "Amelia" flopped, but this book by Wells, a San Francisco author, delivers. Packed with photos and memorabilia illustrating Earhart's daredevil life and mysterious...
District teachers sat in Hillsborough High Schoolâs classrooms Nov. 2-4, listening to presenters from the state and from several universities as part of the districtâs Teaching and Learning Institute. Every so often during the workshops which covered topics from using childrenâs literature to introduce engineering design to multiculturalism through dancing the teachers would be asked to applying ...
A new book tells a little known story of a teacher on the Aluetian Island of Attu, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War Two. Attu is the last island in the Aleutian chain. It was invaded by the Japanese in June, 1942. Etta Jones was living there with her husband, [...]
Colum McCann, whose novel, “Let the Great World Spin,” won the National Book Award for fiction last week, finds inspiration by burrowing into lives unlike his own.
Dundee United: The Official Centenary History By Peter Rundo and Mike Watson Review: Martin Hannan
PETALING JAYA: MIC Youth has criticised a PKR leader for threatening to burn an effigy of Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam over the Tamil literature issue.
MALACCA: MIC vice-president Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam has hit out at those exploiting the issue over the exclusion of Tamil Literature as an SPM subject next year.
Two men from the area are remembering a pivotal point from their military careers at a reunion of sorts today at Barnes and Noble Bookstore by Oak View Mall in Omaha. An author who grew up here put their story together in a new book, "The Bone Yard."
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As a craftsman of the written word, its only natural that I have a personal vendetta against the "Twilight" phenomenon. The great Stephen King summed up what the rest of the literary worl...
MARGATE--A local author returned to his main source of inspiration to sign copies of his children's book. Margate native, Steven Winkle signed copies of "Elephant, Elephant Come Alive!" at Lucy the Elephant Friday afternoon.
On an August morning in 1974, a man named Philippe Petit steps off of the roof of the World Trade Center's South Tower and onto a tightrope. The act is the backdrop to Colum McCann's National Book Award-winning novel, "Let the Great World Spin."
Librarian Kathryn Shepler screamed when she learned she had been selected to the panel that will help select the recipient of what is arguably the nation's most prestigious award for children's literature.
Looking for a gift idea for the Simpsons fan in your life? Reporter John Ortved has written an unauthorized, uncensored history of the still popular, still witty, longest running prime time TV series in the country. SFist asked him a few questions about the book, and the contentious origins of the show. SFist: Explain how Matt Groening got the opportunity to create The Simpsons , via "Life In ...
Synopsis: Is a classic of children’s literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England.
Digital books are the next big thing, says author Douglas Hunter, and writers will be better off if they embrace that hard fact now
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