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CI2024: A Bookseller’s Mardi Gras
Children’s Institute returns to New Orleans for networking, education, authors to meet, and literary lagniappe (books, ARCs, and swag). As of May 1, 377 booksellers had registered for the annual conference.
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CI2024: Authors and Illustrators to Meet
More than 60 authors and illustrators will interact with booksellers in New Orleans, during keynotes, panel sessions, dinners, a reception and publisher-sponsored after party, and, of course, the costume party.
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Children's Institute 2024: Lift Every Voice and Sing: PW Talks with Cheryl Willis Hudson
Hudson, the co-founder of Just Us Books and a children’s book author, spoke with PW about the enduring impact both of African-American spirituals and of BIPOC indie presses.
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Children's Institute 2024: One Man's Treasure: PW talks with Andrew Larsen
Larsen spoke with PW about upcycling, the anthropological significance of garbage, and his forthcoming picture book 'Gifts from the Garbage Truck: A True Story About the Things We (Don’t) Throw Away.'
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Children's Institute 2024: Growing New Roots: PW Talks with Ruth Chan
Chan, whose immigrant parents returned the family to Hong Kong after years in Toronto, spoke with PW about the memoir form, culture shock, and getting over teenage insecurities.
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Children's Institute 2024: It Takes a Village: PW talks with Meg Medina
Medina, 2023-2024 national ambassador for young children’s literature, spoke with PW about how the village really does raise a child, and her memory of firing a beloved babysitter when she was young.
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Children's Institute 2024: Bookselling in the Big Easy
New Orleans indies are vibrant community hubs in one of the liveliest and most colorful cities in the country. They not only sell books -- many offer innovative programming for both adults and children.
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Reach Out and Read Commemorates Milestone with Inclusive Book Collection
Thanks to a joint effort between Reach Out and Read and Scholastic, 350,000 copies of a curated 35-book collection will be distributed to medical clinics nationwide, providing greater opportunities for parents to bond with their children through reading.
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YALLWEST 2024 in Photos
On May 4, YALLWEST, the festival founded and run by authors Melissa de la Cruz and Margaret Stohl, celebrated a major milestone: the 10th-anniversary festival.
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Licensing Hotline: May 2024
Read on for news about Scholastic's Pokémon publishing program for preschoolers, new licenses being added to the You're My Little series, Crown Books' StEvEn & Parker license, publishing timed to Barbie's 65th anniversary, new Rainbow Brite coloring and activity books, and more.
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