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From Entertainment Weekly:
DreamWorks has picked up film rights to Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park. Click here  
From the Guardian:
Remembering writer John Rowe Townsend, who died March 24 at age 91. Click here
From Reddit:
In Laurie Halse Anderson's Ask Me Anything, she answers a question about the "John Greenification" of YA. Click here
From School Library Journal:
Co-editors Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil on Dear Nobody: The Real Life Diary of Mary Rose, an "authentic version of Go Ask Alice." Click here
From Brain Pickings:
A look inside Winston & George, newly published a half-century after its creation. Click here
From Bookish:
Six celebrities "we want to see write children's books." Click here |
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From the Guardian:
Canongate in the U.K. will publish a series of children's books by comedian Russell Brand. Click here
From Den of Geek:
Learning to adapt: the cinematic explosion of YA books. Click here
From the Hollywood Reporter:
Haylie Duff's blog-turned-teen-cookbook, The Real Girl's Kitchen, is becoming a TV show. Click here
From the Paris Review:
Revisiting the "extremely bizarre collection" The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon, winner of the first Hans Christian Andersen Award. Click here
From Philadelphia magazine:
The Daring Book for Girls co-author Andi Buchanan on the gendered children's book debate. Click here
From Parade:
10 "life-changing" quotes from children’s books. Click here |
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