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Children’s book tells the
history of Quindaro
A
Kansas City author has written a
children's book based on
the history of Quindaro in
Kansas City, Kan. The
book, “Polly's Amazing
Journey,”
Chicago School Keeps Alexie Novel on Summer
Reading List
Despite public calls to do so from a group
of parents, Sherman Alexie’s critically
acclaimed YA novel, The Absolutely True
Diary of a Part-Time Indian, will not
be pulled as required summer reading for 400
incoming freshmen students at Antioch (Ill.)
Community High School. In a meeting on
Monday night, school district 117
superintendent Jay Sabatino and the
seven-member school board voiced their
strong support for the book as an
educational tool that engages young readers.
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Blue Marble Celebrates 30 Years
The Blue Marble, a children’s
bookstore located in Ft. Thomas,
Ky., celebrated its 30th anniversary
with an in-store celebration
Saturday, June 20. Seventeen local
authors and illustrators spent the
day mingling with customers. The
daylong celebration culminated in a
dinner that included the day’s
featured authors, past and present
store employees, a few sales reps,
and friends of the store from the
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Licensing Hotline
Cartoon Network is extending its boy-skewing
television franchise The Secret
Saturdays into books, through a
partnership with Random House Children’s
Publishing. The first books will debut later
this summer. “Everyone always says boys
don’t read,” says Christina Miller, v-p,
Cartoon Network Enterprises. “So we asked,
how do we get them to read? How do we engage
them?” Read on to see many more licensing
stories.
It’s the Dog Days of Summer at
Square Fish
Square Fish Books is going to
the dogs this season: Macmillan
Children’s Publishing Group’s
paperback imprint is featuring
its six new canine capers in The
Dog Days of Summer promotion.
The cover of each book displays
a crisp, close-up photo of a
pooch on its cover, giving the
middle-grade novels a uniform
look and surefire appeal to
young dog devotees. The
promotion encompasses five
reprints of books originally
published by one of the group’s
imprints, as well as one Square
Fish original.
Putnam to Publish Tale of
Pachyderm and Pooch Pals
An animal odd couple that has
captivated the mainstream media
and has become a YouTube
sensation will soon star in a
picture book. In September,
Putnam will publish Tarra &
Bella: The Elephant and Dog Who
Became Best Friends by
Carol Buckley, documenting the
friendship between an elephant
and a stray dog at the Elephant
Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn.
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