This Week’s Tweets and Pins

Two weeks worth this time!

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter and Pinterest accounts these last two weeks that you might find interesting:

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS

1st Welsh publisher dedicated to children’s books to help tackle literacy and tell great stories – Wales Online http://buff.ly/1730o64

BBC News – Authors back ‘malnutrition hits literacy’ study http://buff.ly/153zOq0

Book News: Kipling Admitted Plagiarizing ‘Promiscuously’ : The Two-Way : NPR http://buff.ly/12OL1IQ

The Book Smugglers | Progressive Publishers Doing Cool Things: Lee & Low Books (& Giveaway) http://buff.ly/112Ivfo #kidlit #publishers

Gwyneth Rees’s top 10 books about siblings | Children’s books http://buff.ly/12SuTX1 #kidlit

Hear the Classic Winnie-the-Pooh Read by Author A.A. Milne in 1929 | Open Culture http://cultr.me/17mLKHJ #kidlit

JK Rowling-Annotated Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone Sells At Record Price http://buff.ly/13KYCmY #kidlit

New Great Chapter Books for Kids and Summer Reading : PragmaticMom http://buff.ly/13KZDeL #kidlit

Picture books for children still popular – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://buff.ly/1730JG3 #kidlit

Read, Write, Reflect: Reflecting on Picture Books http://buff.ly/17OtxlE #kidlit

What books for toddlers can match the allure of Peppa Pig? | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1atOnng #kidlit

EBOOKS

HarperCollins makes it easier for authors to give away their ebooks — paidContent http://buff.ly/159lufC #ebooks

"OverDrive’s Big Library Read Boosts Checkouts, Sales" http://buff.ly/1azgKRe #books #libraries

‘Real Books From Real Trees for Real People’: Microsoft’s Fun eBook Predictions From 1999 – The Atlantic http://buff.ly/187BMcB #ebooks

LIBRARIES

‘Artists in the Archives,’ at Greenburgh Public Library in Elmsford – http://buff.ly/13HYPYj #art #libraries

BBC News – Paperless public libraries switch to digital http://buff.ly/10LSMMZ

Gun Violence, Videogames, and Libraries | American Libraries Magazine http://buff.ly/16OIMe4 #libraries

Librarians: Your Most Valuable MOOC Supporters – http://buff.ly/10G19tx

Libraries as Content Creators | American Libraries Magazine http://buff.ly/1138O56 #libraries

A library revolution, started in part by Jane McGonigal’s TED Talk | TED Blog http://buff.ly/168SJDP #libraries

Miniature Libraries http://buff.ly/10M3MxQ

Suspended Boxes Transform Trees Into A Free Library – PSFK http://buff.ly/13KZBnc #libraries

PRIVACY

Unprecedented e-mail privacy bill sent to Texas governor’s desk | Ars Technica http://buff.ly/16nXVDU #privacy

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PUBLISHERS

Barefoot Books Stops Selling to Amazon http://buff.ly/10M5uvg #publishers

READING

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10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day – Lifehack http://buff.ly/12s0sX4

25 Signs You’re Addicted To Books http://buff.ly/118CoKF – I won’t tell you how many I exhibit…

Is He Reading? – Digital Book Today-Digital Book Today http://buff.ly/17OtXZe #reading

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook crafts new policies to better combat hate speech – Computerworld http://buff.ly/112D4Nz

Online video will be more popular than Facebook and Twitter by 2017 — Tech News and Analysis http://buff.ly/1ayC7BZ

Teens are tired of Facebook ‘drama,’ find refuge on Twitter and elsewhere, says Pew | The Verge http://buff.ly/10LSGoK

Yahoo revamps Flickr and offers a terabyte of free storage – Computerworld http://buff.ly/12SumEm

TEEN READS

Novels for young adults are reaching more (adult) readers – http://buff.ly/17OtypO #yalit

TLT: Teen Librarian’s Toolbox: Relational Reading Revolution: How you can change the landscape of reading http://buff.ly/1atOkYK

Top 10 young adult books for summer http://buff.ly/10QWJzZ #yalit

Top Ten YA Road Trip Novels by Ben Kuhlman | Nerdy Book Club http://buff.ly/17P4E9z #yalit