- 2021 Sep 23
Black Bookstore in Tennessee Helps Kids
Demoir Books and Things in Memphis opened this summer and is now helping young authors find an audience.
L.A. Stores Score with Social Media
TikTok has driven customers to Mystery Pier, a used bookstore in Los Angeles run by an octogenarian ex-actor.
Washington Store Adds Charm to Town
When Joie Des Livres opened in tiny Seabrook, west of Seattle, more than two years ago, it immediately brought a bit of color to the town.
- 2021 Sep 22
From the Guardian
Netflix acquires works of Roald Dahl as it escalates streaming wars.
From People
Amanda Gorman Hopes to Remind Kids of Their 'Power to Change the World' with Debut Picture Book.
From Deadline
‘House of Secrets’ Series from Chris Columbus in Works for Disney+.
From Scientific American
The Educational Power—and the Limits—of Personalized Children’s Books.
From Literary Hub
How Christopher Pike’s Remember Me Subverts '80s Teenage Tropes.
From Book Riot
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Terrifying, Mysterious, and Still Relevant.
From People
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Writes Kids' Book Inspired by Real-Life Pinkie Promises: We Are Strong.
From Catapult
Scaring Kids: Ingredients of a Goosebump.
From the Seattle Times
Ramona Quimby’s Portland: A self-guided walking tour through sites in Beverly Cleary’s books.
From Today Parents
Cover Reveal: The Queen of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes and Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
From Words Without Borders
Around the World with Queer Kid Lit and YA: 13 Books to Read Now.
From Book Riot
15 Gorgeous Nature Books for Kids of All Ages.
From Brightly
Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice: 12 Picture Books That Celebrate Fall.
From Book Riot
Buckle Up, Me Hearties: Best YA Pirate Stories.
From Book Riot
Music Books for Kids: 14 Titles to Inspire Them.
Bookstores Celebrate Latinx Heritage
In celebration of National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, which takes place from September 15 to October 15, indie bookstores are sharing book recommendations, showcasing displays, and hosting virtual events.
Waterstones Opens New Shop in Ireland
The U.K. bookstore chain is hiring for a new store location in Derry.
- 2021 Sep 21
Harvard Coop Reopens Flagship Store
The Harvard Cooperative Society, known as the Coop, celebrated the grand reopening of the newly renovated Harvard Coop Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass.
Des Moines Gets Online Indie Bookseller
Former biologist and Iowa resident Jena Best has launched Raccoon River Press, for now an online-only independent bookseller and soon-to-be local publisher.
The Stacks Used Bookstore Goes Virtual
The Friends of the Amesbury Public Library in Massachusetts once operated the Stacks used bookstore in the library’s lower level. Now they're keeping it alive during Covid by shifting sales online.
Ontario's City Lights Is Up for Sale
In Ontario, Canada, the longtime owners of City Lights Book Shop are retiring and selling the store after nearly 50 years.
- 2021 Sep 20
From the York Daily Record
Central York school board votes unanimously to rescind book ban: 'It has taken far too long.'
From School Library Journal
As Banned Books Week Approaches, the Fight Against Censorship Intensifies.
From NPR
Jason Reynolds: How Can We Connect with Kids Through the Written Word?
From the Guardian
Former U.K. Children’s Laureate Lauren Child says children’s books should be taken seriously.
From the Wrap
Eva Longoria to Develop Sal & Gabi Break the Universe TV Series for Disney.
From the LA Review of Books
Remembering Ramona and Beverly Cleary’s Attention to Childhood Emotions.
From Fuse #8
Beautifully Me: A Talk with Nabela Noor.
From the Today Show
23 beautiful kids' books to celebrate and honor Hispanic Heritage Month.
From Book Riot
Creepy Fun: 35 New YA Horror Books.
From Brightly
Picture Books on the Value of Gratitude.
From Book Riot
New Middle Grade Graphic Novels for Summer and Fall.
Ohio Bookseller Forgoes Brick and Mortar
Since launching Bookspace in Clintonville in 2015, bookseller Charlie Pugsley has sold curated titles at pop-ups, flea markets, and even on his own front lawn.
Toronto Bookstore Unexpectedly Reopens
After closing in 2018 following 10 years in business, Toronto's beloved cookbook store Good Egg has reopened, to the surprise of many customers.
Kyoto Bookstore Gets Political
In response to a popular Japanese YouTuber's criticisms of unhoused people, Books Ogaki curated a display of titles about homelessness, social welfare, and the history of eugenics.
- 2021 Sep 17
Honoring a Late Literary Advocate
Dana Maeshia, owner of All Things Literacy Bookstore in Sacramento, Calif., died of Covid-19 in August. Sacramento leaders have vowed to carry on her legacy.
One Last Goodbye
Robert Klein, owner of the recently shuttered Book Revue bookstore in Long Island, N.Y., penned an emotional farewell to customers.
San Antonio Gets a Latino Bookstore
The 3,000-square-foot Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center bookstore opens on October 1, and will focus on Latino literature.
Aussies Love Their Bookshops
The Australian Booksellers Association announced online celebrations for its annual Love Your Book Shop Day on October 9.
- 2021 Sep 16
Green Apple Books Goes to SFO
San Francisco's iconic Green Apple Books will expand with a new location inside San Francisco International Airport.
'Radical' Buffalo Bookstore to Expand
A decade after opening, the social justice-oriented Burning Books in Buffalo, N.Y., will expand to keep up with increased demand.
Neighborhood Books Opens in Maine
Woman-owned Neighborhood Books will host a grand opening at its downtown Presque Isle location this weekend.
Tangible Books Comes to Chicago
With the help of a crowdfunding campaign, Myopic Books founder Joe Judd is returning to Chicago to open Tangible Books.
- 2021 Sep 15
From CBR
Diary of a Wimpy Kid's Jeff Kinney Teases the Series' 2021 Plans and Animated Film.
From CNN
Students fight back against a book ban that has a Pennsylvania community divided.
From the Oregonian
Laika Animation Studio Will Film 'Wildwood,' Based on Book by Decemberists' Frontman Colin Meloy and Illustrator Carson Ellis.
From ABC News
Latina moms create Lil' Libros for kids to see themselves represented in bilingual books.
From Book Riot
13 Funny Twitter Responses to the Idea of Rating YA Books.
From People
'The Old Truck' Children's Book Is Now a West Elm Kids Collection.
From Culturess
The Rats of NIMH trilogy gets picked up for animated Fox series.
From the New York Times
16 New and Upcoming Young Adult Books to Watch For.
From Parents.com
Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman Wants to Rally Kids to Find Their Voice with Empowering Children's Book.
From the Washington Post
Padma Lakshmi has a new kids' book—and a fresh pandemic perspective.
From Publishing Perspectives
Kids Can Press Opens a 'Black Write' Incubator with Nelvana.
From NPR
Little Women Remixed, But Not Reimagined.
From Romper
42 Children's Books Starring Latinx Characters.
From Popsugar
10 Spanish-Language Children's Books Your Kids Will Want to Read with You.
From Mental Floss
11 Classic Books Adapted as Graphic Novels.
Utah's Indie Comic Book Stores Endure
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, Utah's independent comic book stores have not just survived but thrived, championing fandom, literacy, and storytelling.
Crowdfunded Fla. Bookstore Unites a City
The owners of Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg discuss curating titles, celebrating local authors, and delivering books by bicycle during the pandemic.
Revered Texas Bookstore Owner Dies
Camille Rosengren, the owner of San Antonio's Rosengren's Bookstore—in operation since 1935—has died at 94.
A Rising Star in Bay Area Bookselling
Christin Evans, who owns The Booksmith in San Francisco and Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, Calif., is reimagining what a neighborhood bookstore can be.
Pay-What-You-Can Pop-Up Opens in Chicago
This week, a new pop-up bookstore that lets young people pay what they can for books set up shop in Chicago.
- 2021 Sep 14
New Hampshire Mini-Chain to Be Sold
After nearly 50 years in business, Toadstool Bookshops, with locations in Peterborough, Keene, and Nashua, is up for sale.
Idaho Gets a New Bookstore
Winnie & Mo’s Bookshop is slated to open in mid-November in Idaho Falls.
A New Bookstore Comes to Ireland
Dubray Books, which already has eight shops across counties Galway, Dublin, and Bray, will expand to Cork next month.
Comics and Political Activism
Lower East Side cartoonist/activist Seth Tobocman, cofounder of political comics anthology World War 3 Illustrated, is the instructor for Comics as Political Expression, a 14-week class in making comics that reflect an individual’s political convictions. The class is sponsored by ABC No Rio, the Lower East Side art and activist collective, and hosted by the Museum for Reclaimed Urban Space (on Avenue C) while ABC No Rio’s Rivington Street facility is under construction. The class is limited to 8 students. Participants are required to be vaccinated and to wear masks. In the case of a worsening of the pandemic the class will meet over zoom.
A Bad Mother-Shut-Your-Mouth
The late Spain Rodriquez was a groundbreaking radical comics artist and among the pioneers of the Underground Comix movement of the 1960s and 1970s, whose work paved the way for the contemporary world of graphic novels and genre diversity that characterize the American comics market today. Beginning October 7 through October 17, Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriquez, a documentary on his life and work, will premiere online and in-person at the Mill Valley Film Festival in California. The documentary is directed by Susan Stern, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and Rodriquez’s wife, and features appearances by a stellar lineup of such cartooning peers as Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, R. Crumb, and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, as well as comics artist Ed Piskor, and Nora Rodriquez, his daughter.
Small Press Expo Returns Online
SPX, aka the Small Press Expo, an annual small press and indie author comics and graphic novel festival, to be held virtually September 18 and 19, will kickoff with a full slate of programming on Saturday, Sept. 18 on the SPX YouTube channel. Programming includes a spotlight panel on Bill Campbell & Bizhan Khodabandeh's The Day The Klan Came To Town, a graphic novel based on a real event, a massive Klan rally in 1923 in a small Pennsylvania town that galvanized its multi-racial residents to fight back; in addition there’s programming on queer comics, an SPX documentary, and much more.
50 Years After the Attica Uprising
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the. Attica Prison Revolt, one of the bloodiest prison rebellions in the history of the U.S. prison system, and a landmark event in the history of mass incarceration. Attica Is All of Us (AtticaIsAllofUs.org), a coalition of social justice, criminal justice reform, and anti-racist activist organizations, organized two virtual events (held earlier this week) to commemorate the uprising and discuss the current state of the anti-prison movement. The two livestreamed panel discussions have been been archived on YouTube, and feature appearances by the Attica Brothers, Angela Davis, Danny Glover, and, Heather Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
A Novel Struggle
Over at The Millions, Adam Dalva interviews Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle, his highly regarded, hyper-extended six-book memoir, about the release of his new novel, The Morning Star, to be published this month by Penguin Press, “a multi-perspective first-person story set in Norway in which a giant star appears in the sky and earth’s beings seem to stop dying.”
- 2021 Sep 13
From Entertainment Weekly
Tiffany D. Jackson on the real-life horror stories that inspired her novel White Smoke.
From Deadline
Victories Greater Than Death Series Based on Charlie Jane Anders Novel in Works at Amazon Studios.
From People
HGTV’s Erin Napier Has Written Her First Children's Book.
From Electric Literature
Why Did I Fail to Notice Race in The Snowy Day?
From Literary Hub
Is the Original Pinocchio Actually About Lying and Very Long Noses?
From WYMT
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Receives Award from Library of Congress.
From Mental Floss
11 Books That Were Banned for Ridiculous Reasons.
Bookshop.org vs. Amazon
Capitalizing on sales momentum, Bookshop.org is looking to the future in its online bookselling endeavor.
Beloved N.H. Bookstore Up for Sale
After 50 years in business, Toadstool Bookshops founder and co-owner Willard Williams is ready to turn the page.
From School Library Journal
29 Picture Books to Celebrate the Latinx Experience.
Best Friends Open Bookstore in Idaho
Winnie & Mo’s Bookshop in Downtown Idaho Falls will offer titles "curated to local interests."
MIT Press Bookstore Reopens
The bookstore will sell a selection of publications by the MIT Press and other publishers at its new location in Cambridge, Mass.
Dubray Books Opens New Ireland Location
In addition to its eight shops across Galway, Dublin, and Bray, Dubray Books will open a new location in Cork.
- 2021 Sep 09
Michigan Bookstore Closes
The Book Nook in Monroe has closed after more than 50 years in business.
Chicagoland Bookstore Hits Milestone
Quimby's Bookstore celebrates 30 years in business.
New York State Gets a New Bookstore
Hudson Valley Books for Humanity is raising $50,000 on IndieGoGo to open in Ossining.
Oklahoma Bookstore Is On the Move
Old Soul Used and Antique Books in Enid moving into a larger space just months after opening.
Toronto LGBTQ Stores Moves
A Different Booklist in Toronto has moved into a new, larger location.
- 2021 Sep 08
From the Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Curry to Produce Adaptation of Jewel Parker Rhodes’s Black Brother, Black Brother at Netflix.
From NPR
Books Can Help Kids Learn About What Happened on 9/11. Here Are Some Good Ones.
From People
How LeBron James's Love of Basketball and Being Raised by a Single Mom Inspired His New Kids' Book.
From the Orange County Register
Lauren Tarshis's I Survived series for kids tackles hard topics like 9/11, war, and disasters.
From Entertainment Weekly
Jennifer Lynn Alvarez on testing the limits of loyalty in YA thriller Lies Like Wildfire.
From the New York Times
What Did Bestselling Illustrators Doodle While Daydreaming in School?
From Popsugar
17 Children's Books by Latinx Authors Worth Adding to Your Kid's Bookshelf.
From Book Riot
20 of the Best Fall Books for Kids.
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