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Parents Will Find New Courage to Guide Their Children through the Grieving Process with This Heartfelt Read

Everyone remembers exactly where they were and how they felt when two airplanes crashed into the Twin Towers, creating total chaos in New York City and costing 2,900 lives. While processing all the information and emotions, a thought occurred to me like it no doubt occurred to millions of others…

Jim AlkonSeptember 13, 2022

Miscellany

Women’s History Month: 3 Heroines to Share With Your Daughter

It’s Women’s History Month and we are looking forward to all the events and books that celebrate the impact that women have on the world. In addition to bringing you the latest pop culture news and reviews where women are the focus, this month, we are also going to share…

BookTribMarch 9, 2018

Miscellany

13 Authors on Banning Books and Censorship

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. It’s Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the right to read. Launched in 1982, Banned Books Week was a response to an increase in the number of books being challenged by groups and individuals. Here, we’ve rounded up the perspectives of thirteen authors—from…

BookishSeptember 27, 2017

Nonfiction

‘He Never Deserved Me’: Marrying for Culture, Not Love is a Recipe for Disaster

Sometimes, things are not exactly what they seem to be. When we were writing He Never Deserved Me, the subject came up of how I ended up marrying my husband. My best friend kept on saying that it was an arranged marriage and I would explain to her that it wasn’t.…

Ariana MansourNovember 22, 2017

Nonfiction

Pauline Lévêque and Florence Mars: The Culture of Raising Children

If you lived abroad for an extended period, even simply during a semester off while in college, you know that cultures are nothing alike. There is as much in common between Russian and Portuguese bread than between a whale and a tiger. That is what gives the world its colors…

Frederic ColierJuly 20, 2017

Nonfiction

Video: Missed It? Interview with Meredith Scott Lynn and Write Brain Books

WRiTE BRAiN BOOKS are richly illustrated, textless books, with lines on the pages, ready for any writer’s content. They are designed to ignite and inspire creativity and imagination in kids of all ages. Our books enable kids to write their own stories, publish beautiful hardcover copies, and build a personal…

BookTribJanuary 20, 2016

Nonfiction

TED Talks: Andrew Solomon on Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

Thanksgiving is all about family and the stress and joy that come with reconnecting. Family is also the theme of Andrew Solomon’s “Love No Matter What” talk from TEDMED 2013, in which he explores the ways family and identity develop in the face of extraordinary circumstances. Solomon shares the deeply…

Katie HiresNovember 24, 2015

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A Police Transcriber Finds the Real Thing Too Close to Home

“This job is violent and graphic in nature. You’ll have to listen to accounts of things that are … traumatic … to say the least. It’s not for everyone.” “Good thing I’m not everyone.” In Hannah Morrissey’s Hello, Transcriber (Minotaur Books), Hazel Greenlee, 26, has just been hired as a…

Neil NyrenNovember 26, 2021

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured Miscellany

How to Encourage Your Children to Read at Home

As children, we were told that reading is important, and many of us are among the millions of library users, audible subscribers, and bookstore shoppers. But exactly why is it important and how do we convince kids of its inherent value? Well, like most things, there’s a fiscal angle here.…

Maria Jose MenesesDecember 29, 2021

Children's Books Miscellany

Author of the Seminal “The Phantom Tollbooth,” Norton Juster, Passes Away at 91

Bill Greene/The Boston Globe/Getty Images Norton Juster captured the hearts and minds of many a reader with his uniquely playful acclaimed novel The Phantom Tollbooth, published in 1961. He died earlier this week in his Northampton, MA, home at the age of 91. His housemate, the talented Jules Feiffer, illustrated…

Judy MorenoMarch 10, 2021

Children's Books

“A Teeny-Tiny History of Philosophy” Shares Some Big Ideas With Small Children

“Teacher Socrates Goat had a problem: he wanted to live the good life, but didn’t know what the good life was.” So begins Francisco Mejia Uribe’s A Teeny-Tiny History of Philosophy: A Children's Introduction to the Great Thinkers of the Philosophical Tradition, a book for children ages 5 and up. It’s…

David ToddMarch 11, 2021

Children's Books

The Power of a Child’s Curiosity in “The Magic Pond”

Any parent can tell you that children have an uncanny ability to get into mischief. You can put child locks on the cabinets, hide the cookie jar on a high shelf, and set up baby gates throughout the house — kids will always find a way. But what happens when…

Cameron KimballMarch 16, 2021

Fiction

New ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Trailer is Meg-nificent

During the American Music Awards on November 19th, Disney debuted the second trailer for the upcoming movie of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Like our first look at the film, this latest trailer highlights the battle of light vs. darkness that young Meg Murry (Storm Reid) is thrust into…

Early Bird BooksNovember 28, 2017

Fiction

‘No Good Reasons At All’: A Literary View of the Full Implications of War

Reckless saber-rattling with an unstable despot and growing nuclear power in North Korea, sixteen years of fighting in Afghanistan, insurmountable issues in the Middle East, irrational bigotry and hatred consuming far too many, an enemy power's blatant interference with the sovereignty of our electoral process, terrorism both domestic and foreign,…

Walt GraggNovember 9, 2017

Fiction

Interview with Maxine Rosaler, Author of “Queen for a Day”

It is bold work to invite us into the world of children who are eligible for special education—and their long suffering parents. Maxine Rosaler does this in her novel, Queen for a Day, through her main character, Mimi Slavitt and her young son, Danny. We, the audience, are alongside Mimi…

Susan Shapiro BarashJune 7, 2018

Fiction

‘A House Among the Trees’ is Chock Full of Eccentric, Detailed Characters

In author Julia Glass’s latest character-driven novel, A House Among the Trees, Mort Lear, a famous children’s author, vaguely reminiscent of Maurice Sendak, unexpectedly falls to his death off the roof of his Connecticut home in a fluke accident. His longtime, live-in assistant Tomasina (Tommy) is left to pick up…

Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 2, 2017

Parents Will Find New Courage to Guide Their Children through the Grieving Process with This Heartfelt Read

Women’s History Month: 3 Heroines to Share With Your Daughter

13 Authors on Banning Books and Censorship

‘He Never Deserved Me’: Marrying for Culture, Not Love is a Recipe for Disaster

Pauline Lévêque and Florence Mars: The Culture of Raising Children

Video: Missed It? Interview with Meredith Scott Lynn and Write Brain Books

TED Talks: Andrew Solomon on Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

A Police Transcriber Finds the Real Thing Too Close to Home

How to Encourage Your Children to Read at Home

Author of the Seminal “The Phantom Tollbooth,” Norton Juster, Passes Away at 91

“A Teeny-Tiny History of Philosophy” Shares Some Big Ideas With Small Children

The Power of a Child’s Curiosity in “The Magic Pond”

New ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Trailer is Meg-nificent

‘No Good Reasons At All’: A Literary View of the Full Implications of War

Interview with Maxine Rosaler, Author of “Queen for a Day”

‘A House Among the Trees’ is Chock Full of Eccentric, Detailed Characters

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