The Official Eric Carle Web Site
This month Eric Carle celebrates his 75th birthday and The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 35! What a year! And enjoy his newest book Mister Seahorse that is bound to become as beloved as all of his other books.

St. Louis Today — Children’s book publisher will pay $90,000 settlement
“Scholastic At Home, a publisher of children’s books, has agreed to pay $90,000 to the state of Missouri to settle allegations that it sent books to consumers who hadn’t ordered them and then demanded payment.
Attorney General Jay Nixon said 242 consumers across the country had complained of getting billed for unordered merchandise.
Scholastic sells Disney Book Club, Winnie the Pooh and Scooby Doo books.”

USATODAY.com – There’s too much Madonna in preachy ‘Seven Thieves’
Unbelievably, it seems that Madonna’s third book is even worse than her first two!

Walden Media
Information from Walden Media on their films which include Holes and Around the World in 80 Days. The site offers not just information on upcoming movies, but also has a special section for teachers that connect books to movies.

New York Daily News – Kids face third try in 3rd grade
“A whopping 20% of third-graders who already had been held back flunked crucial exams this year, which may mean they have to sit through the grade a third time, the Daily News has learned.
Of the 5,000 third-graders repeating the grade this year, nearly 1,000 failed city English and math exams this April, according to Education Department statistics obtained by The News.”

BBC — Pupils ‘not taught to love books’
According to author Michael Morpurgo, “We are giving teachers really an impossible brief: we say you have to teach the children literacy, but what we are not doing is teaching the teachers to love reading in the first place.” A list of ten recommended books to inspire kids to love books is appended to the end of the article.

Time Stops for No Mouse
The official Hermux Tantamoq website with information on the author, Michael Hoeye, and online games. Very nice for Hermux fans. The third book in the series, No Time Like Show Time, is coming out soon.

CJAD 800 : News
CLA announced the winners of the 2004 Book of the Year for Children and also for young adults.
Winner for Children is Boy O’Boy by Brian Doyle.
Winner for YA is The Canning Season by Polly Horvath.

Sonya Sones official website home page
Site for the author of the new book, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies.