Tag Archives: Children

The Quill Literary Foundation has created the first literary awards whose results will be decided by the book buying public.

...no matter what is going on in our lives, it is important ... to live and experience it to the best of our abilities.

Even if those weren’t the good old days, there were some damn good days.

...as J. K. Rowling has proved, if you write it (a good story) they will read.

Pathological is probably the first word that comes to mind ... meet(ing) Willie Wonka for the first time.

On July 16, ’05 millions of books were snapped up worldwide as J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, number 6 in the young wizard’s saga of good, evil, friendship, magic and funny names, went on sale. Preince makes a triumphant return in paperback form in July, ’06, with …

Two books about the horrible things done to girls, most often by other girls. One is the application of the label “school slut”. Now I think about it, every school, college and similar collection of adolescents or young adults with which I have been involved had a school slut, or, …

Thanks & Giving: All Year Long is a book and CD project for the benefit of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Marlo Thomas has produced a thoughtful, exuberant volume for children and “the grown-ups in their lives.” An original collection from acclaimed writers, artists and performers, Thanks & Giving: All …

Madonna reads to the kiddies and is inducted into the new U.K. Music Hall of Fame

The Caldecott and the Newberry were awarded yesterday: Mordicai Gerstein, won the 2004 Caldecott Medal yesterday for “The Man Who Walked Between the Towers,” his account of how Philippe Petit, the French aerialist, strode a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. The award, announced at the American …