- 2021 Jul 23
Italian Bookstore to Return to Boston
I AM Books closed last year during the pandemic, but is reopening this fall in a new location three times its original size.
Maryland Is Losing a Children's Store
The Children's Bookstore in Baltimore is closing after 43 years in business. The store is closing due to the owner's health.
Colorado Bookstore Is Up for Sale
The Bookies in Denver is for sale following the death of its owner earlier this month.
- 2021 Jul 22
Minnesota Gets a New Bookstore
Four Pines Bookstore has opened in Bemidji.
Online Bookstore Highlights Black SF
Seattle-based online bookstore Sistah SciFi offers a forum for Black authors and science fiction.
Massachusetts Bookstore Seeks New Owner
Paperback Junction in Easton is for sale.
New Bookstore Bar to Open in Illinois
Lit Books & Bar, a new bookstore and bar, is being planned for Champaign-Urbana.
Australian Bookseller Steps Up for Staff
Mark Rubbo, the managing director of Readings Bookstores in Melbourne, has offered laid-off workers pay from his own pocket.
- 2021 Jul 21
From Book Riot
School Librarian Population Declines by 20% in Last Decade.
From Variety
New TV series on the life of Malcolm X in the works at Tristar, based on the YA novels X: A Novel and The Awakening of Malcolm X co-written by daughter Ilyasah Shabazz.
From the Hollywood Reporter
One of Us Is Lying Teaser Trailer Released by Peacock.
From SYFY
Fear Street isn't a direct adaptation, but author R.L. Stine says Netflix 'got the spirit' right.
From 100 Scope Notes
Notable 2021 Children’s Book Follow-Ups, Sequels, and Companion Books.
From the Guardian
From Playboy to periods: I reread Judy Blume with my tween. She found it perplexing.
From Reader’s Digest
25 Graphic Novels Your Kids Will Love Reading.
From Book Riot
9 Funny Chapter Book Series That Will Keep Kids Giggling.
From Parents
25 Books About Kindness to Add to Your Kid's Library.
Children's Store Opens in Mississippi
Wonders of the World Book and Toy Store opened in Gulfport earlier this month.
North Carolina Is Getting a New Store
Pig City Books, which started as a pop-up store, will open a bricks-and-mortar location in Lexington.
Florida's Newest Bookstore Isn't New
Materialistic Uptown, a bookstore and gift shop, has opened in Augustine. The store combines a pair of existing businesses.
San Antonio Bookstore Opens to Customers
Nowhere Books, which opened last year, has welcomed its first customers for in-store shopping.
New Store in the Works in Chicago
Burst into Books, a nonprofit in Chicago, won a $250,000 grant to open a bookstore and a business incubator.
- 2021 Jul 20
Charlamagne On Comedy Central
Fellow South Carolinians Charlamagne Tha God (aka Lenard McKelvey), cohost of the wildly popular morning radio show The Breakfast Club, and, CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert, are teaming up to launch a new show on Comedy Central. Tha God’s Honest Truth with Lenard ‘Charlamagne’ McKelvey will debut on September 17. The show will be executive produced by Aaron McGruder, creator of the acclaimed Black comics strip and Cartoon Network show, The Boondocks.
A Native American Military Hero
In a continuing series of graphic biographies documenting recipients of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor awarded to U.S. military service members, the nonprofit Association of the United States Army has released a new graphic biography of Mitchell Red Cloud Jr., a Ho-Chunk Native American who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 1951. While serving during the Korean War, Mitchell Red Cloud Jr., stymied a Chinese attack and prevented his company from being overrun. Despite being wounded, he refused assistance, propped himself against a tree, and continued to fight until he was killed in action. The graphic biography was written by Chuck Dixon with art by Peter Pantazis.
Latinx Heroes Assemble!
In October Marvel Comics will debut Marvel Voices: Comunidades!, a new Marvel one-shot comics anthology that will celebrate the Latinx heroes (and their creators) from the Marvel Universe. The anthology will feature the adventures of such heroes as White Tiger, Miles Morales, Ghost Rider, and America Chavez, as well as such creators as Karla Pacheco, Alex Segura and Edgar Delgado, and it includes an introduction by noted Latinx comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama that examines the history of Latinx creators and heroes in the U.S. comics industry.
The State of Black Books
Troy Johnson, founder of the African American Literature Book Club, a pioneering online site for Black books, Black authors and Black readers, is a guest on State of Play, a public affairs TV show broadcast by the Black News Channel, cohosted by Sharon Pratt, former Mayor of Washington DC, and Karen Tramontano, a former deputy chief of staff to President Clinton. Johnson is among a group of panelists that includes Dr. Brenda M. Greene, professor Joshua Clark Davis, and Ramunda and Derrick Young, that assess the state of Black books and reading from their individual and professional points of view.
To Age as a Woman
The Millions’s Alexander Sammartino interviews novelist Dana Spiotta about her new novel Wayward: “In the chaos of the recent past, at the time of Donald Trump’s election, through the particulars of a family in Syracuse, Spiotta confronts readers with the unseen terrain of menopause.”
- 2021 Jul 19
From the Bookseller
Author Struan Murray and editor Ben Horslen have won the U.K.’s 2021 Branford Boase Award for outstanding debut children’s novel, for Orphans of the Tide.
From Book Riot
9 Funny Chapter Book Series That Will Keep Kids Giggling.
From Electric Literature
Why The Baby-Sitters Club Still Matters.
From the Guardian
From Playboy to periods: I reread Judy Blume with my tween. She found it perplexing.
From USA Today
To All the Boys I've Loved Before author Jenny Han talks about her favorite book as a young adult.
From Parents
25 Books About Kindness to Add to Your Kid's Library.
From Brightly
BIPOC Children’s Book Authors That Kids Will Love.
From Mommy Poppins
100 Kids' Books Every Child Should Read Before They Grow Up.
- 2021 Jul 14
From the Hollywood Reporter
Obamas Readying Blackout as Film and TV Event for Netflix.
From CBS This Morning
Why diverse children's books are important tools for teaching kids about themselves and others.
From Reuters
Children's books editor to leave Hungary over anti-LGBT+ law.
From the News & Observer
‘They need to see themselves’: N.C. libraries push for AAPI representation in kids' books
From Texas Monthly
A Fort Worth 10-Year-Old Has Collected 40,000 Books for Kids in Need.
From the Associated Press
Former president Obama to adapt Dreams from My Father for young readers.
From Deadline
Javier Bardem to Star in Sony’s Adaptation of Classic Children’s Book Lyle, Lyle Crocodile.
From Current
WGBH and Kwame Alexander partner for children’s series on music education.
From Town & Country
The Unexpected Adulthood of Gossip Girl Creator Cecily von Ziegesar.
From the Rumpus
What to Read When You Grew Up with The Baby-Sitters Club.
From Screen Rant
Fear Street Is Leading a Revival of 90s YA Horror Novel Adaptations.
From Brightly
11 Funny Graphic Novels for Reluctant Young Readers.
From Book Riot
12 Korean Children's Books About Culture, Folklore, and More.
From Brightly
12 Picture Books to Help Reintroduce Important Social Skills Post-Pandemic.
- 2021 Jul 08
Tattered Cover Honors MLB All-Star Game
Tattered Cover bookstore has launched a website and series of baseball-related events to coincide with this year's Midsummer Classic.
Michigan Gets a New Bookstore
New Story Community Book has opened in Battle Creek.
U.K. Booksellers Concerned About Covid
U.K. booksellers are maintaining Covid-19 pandemic safety measures for the foreseeable future.
- 2021 Jul 07
From International Business Times
Boys Don't Like Fiction? Study Busts Gender Stereotypes on Reading Preferences.
From the Associated Press
Hungary issues fine over book featuring ‘rainbow families.'
From the Irish Times
R.L. Stine has sold 400 million books: ‘And people say kids don’t read.’
From BuzzFeed
Becky Albertalli on Her Latest Adaptation for The Upside of Unrequited and What's Next.
From the New York Times
A judge of the Sydney Taylor Book Award longs for more Jewish children’s books that embrace joy over trauma.
From the Left Hand Valley Courier
New children’s store the Wandering Jellyfish Bookshop is opening in Colorado.
From Black Enterprise
YouTube Stars The McClure Twins Launch Their Book Debut with Make It Fashion.
From 100 Scope Notes
Gallery: The Art of the Picture Book Barcode 2021.
From Fuse #8
2021 Poetry: Versification for the Masses.
From Book Riot
12 of the Best Camping Books for Kids.
From Book Riot
Doodle Delights and Pencil Play: 9 Drawing Books for Kids.
- 2021 Jul 06
Georgia Gets a New Bookstore
Virginia Highland Books has opened in Atlanta.
New Store in the Works in Tennessee
A crowdfunding campaign is raising money to open the Book & Cover, a bookstore coming to Chattanooga.
Author Opens Bookstore in Texas
Ryan Holiday discusses opening the Painted Porch, his new bookstore in Bastrop.
Head Coach
Chris Staros, editor-in-chief of the notable comics publisher Top Shelf (an imprint of IDW Publishing), and publisher of such acclaimed graphic novels as Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell, and the late Rep. John Lewis’s celebrated graphic memoir, The March Trilogy, has launched a coaching and mentoring program from aspiring cartoonists. Staros is offering a one-on-one portfolio review that includes detailed feedback, advice on publishing, contracts, crowdfunding, and the comics business in general. The review is done via phone or video and costs $99 for about an hour of consultation.
Free Books on Diverse Communities!
Little Free Library, a nonprofit that offers free books through a network of sharing-boxes, has launched Read In Color, a new initiative to distribute diverse books on racism and social justice as well as works celebrating BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and other marginalized writers and communities. RIC has established 21 new Little Free Library book-sharing boxes throughout Washington DC that will distribute more than 4,600 books on diverse communities. The program is also being established in nine additional cities, including Tulsa, Boston, New York, and more.
Believe In Comics!
The literature, art, and culture magazine The Believer, has published a new batch of inventive and wonderfully eccentric online comics by a new bunch of thoughtful cartoonists, among them Margaret Kimball (The Party), Jia Sung (Bad Protestors), and Keiler Roberts (Imaginary Friends). The publication also features an interview with acclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel by Kristen Radtke (Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness), The Believer art director and associate publisher, about Bechdel’s new graphic memoir The Secret to Superhuman Strength.
Disabled Creative Visions
Produced by the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and U.S. Artists, the Disability Futures virtual festival, is a two-day online event celebrating the art, performance, and concepts of disabled creative practitioners, with a virtual dance party thrown in for good measure. The online event will be held July 19-21 and feature a full slate of programming presenting such artists and writers as choreographer Alice Shepard, journalist Alice Wong, dancer Jerron Herman, filmmaker Rodney Evans, playwright Ryan J, Haddad, writer Jen Deerinwater, and many others.
Diaristic Flow
The Millions’s Joanna Chen interviews poet Marcela Sulak about her new book of poetry City of Skypapers, which she describes as a testament “to the microscopic vicissitudes that are both particular to her and yet familiar to readers, wherever they live.”
- 2021 Jul 05
From Entertainment Weekly
What's in a Page: Rainbow Rowell on the finale of her Simon Snow trilogy.
From NBC News
TikTok is taking the book industry by storm, and retailers are taking notice.
From Be Latina
Lil’ Libros, the Bilingual Children’s Publisher That’s Changing the Rules of the Game.
From Deadline
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret: Lionsgate Wraps Production on Feature Adaptation.
From the Wrap
Mysterious Benedict Society Showrunners Say Future Seasons May Not Follow the Books.
From Brightly
It’s a Jungle in Here: 11 Animal Books for Babies.
- 2021 Jul 02
Massachusetts Bookstore Seeks New Owner
Provincetown Bookshop on Cape Cod is up for sale.
Michigan Gets a New Bookstore
Chill Coffee Café & Bookstore has opened in Davison.
Children's Store to Open in Colorado
The Wandering Jellyfish Bookshop is opening in Niwot at the end of the month.
- 2021 Jun 30
From the Guardian
Waterstones prize winner Elle McNicoll: ‘I never saw autistic girls in books.’
From Forbes
Children’s Book Imprint Heartdrum Focuses on Contemporary Native Stories.
From Variety
Netflix’s Ivy and Bean Family Film Series Sets Cast and Director.
From Literary Hub
A brief ode to A Series of Unfortunate Events (also known as baby’s first metafiction).
From GQ
R.L. Stine on Bringing Fear Street to Netflix, and Scaring Kids for 30 Years.
From Book Riot
15 LGBTQ Comics for Middle Graders.
From Book Riot
8 Books for Kids with Big Goals.
Wisconsin Gets a New Bookstore
Leopold's Books Bar Caffe, a combination bookstore, bar and cafe, is opening in Madison on July 6.
- 2021 Jun 29
Denver's New Children's Bookstore Opens
Tattered Cover opened a new children's bookstore in Denver this past Saturday.
Illinois Gets a New Bookstore
The Artsy Bookworm, a new bookstore, has opened in Rock Island.
Ohio's Newest Bookstore Helps Libraries
Capitol Books has opened in Bowling Green. It will raise money for local libraries.
- 2021 Jun 28
From 5280 Magazine
A Sneak Peek at Tattered Cover’s New Kid-Centric Store.
From NPR
Cardboard Kingdom Is About So Much More Than Just Cardboard.
From Mental Floss
7 Things You Might Not Know About Harold and the Purple Crayon.
BuzzFeed
26 YA Sci-Fi Fantasy Books That Are Hitting Shelves This Summer.
U.K. Indies Benefit from Promotion
Independent bookstores in the U.K. reported having strong sales during Independent Bookshop Week.
Maryland Is Getting a New Bookstore
Dreamers & Make-Believers, a new inclusive and diverse comics and bookstore, is opening in Baltimore in August.
- 2021 Jun 25
Upstate New York Gets a New Bookstore
Alice, Ever After Books, a new children's bookstore, opened in Buffalo.
Seattle Store Reopens After Move
Phil Bevis, owner of Arundel Books in Seattle, discusses the store's new location and what customers are buying.
Florida Is Getting a New Bookstore
Pressed LKLD is a new bookstore coffee shop opening in Lakeland later this summer.
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