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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,”
Dolly Parton writes her first
children's book
Dolly Parton created a charity
13 years ago to provide books to
children and encourage literacy.
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.
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 community...
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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