Here are some cool links I shared on my Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr accounts these last couple of weeks:
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
8 Click-Bait Headlines For Children’s and Teen Books http://buff.ly/2hC0rSs #kidlit #yalit
The Best Children’s Books of 2016 – Brain Pickings – http://buff.ly/2gwS5Ly #kidlit
The Best Children’s Books of 2016 from The Wall Street Journal – http://buff.ly/2hpEMtR #kidlit
The Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2016 http://buff.ly/2hKCvMJ #kidlit
The French Kid’s Lit Author Who Inspired Maurice Sendak & Shel Silverstein http://buff.ly/2gwXtyu #kidlit
I told J K Rowling she’d never make any money from Harry Potter http://buff.ly/2hwf8WX #kidlit
‘I write about 350 jokes per book. I throw away about a third of them’: Jeff ‘Wimpy Kid’ Kinney http://buff.ly/2gRO5Si #kidlit
Irish Times – Our favourite children’s and YA books of 2016 http://buff.ly/2hBljWG #kidlit
Many American Adults Don’t Read, But That Doesn’t Mean Kids Can’t Learn To Love Books http://buff.ly/2hwdPY9 #kidlit #reading
Netflix’s Dark New Adaptation Will Be ‘Super Faithful To The Books’ http://buff.ly/2htcUr7 #kidlit
Penguin and CBC Launch Award Honoring Anna Dewdney http://buff.ly/2hxggK8 #kidlit
Talking with children’s book author Jon Klassen http://buff.ly/2hlwwgo #kidlit
These ‘90s Children’s Books Will Make You Seriously Nostalgic: How Many of These Did You Read? http://buff.ly/2h08FQp #kidlit
LIBRARIES
Libraries for gathering, not just books http://buff.ly/2hwoz5Z #libraries
Library closures ‘will double unless immediate action is taken’ http://buff.ly/2hwjP0a #libraries
The Library of Congress Is Putting Its Map Collection on the Map http://buff.ly/2hNj7e6 #libraries #maps
US libraries report spike in Islamophobic hate speech since election http://buff.ly/2gEGJnd #libraries
TEEN LIT
13 YA authors on writing in the age of Trump http://buff.ly/2hpOgW2 #yalit
Can This American Disrupt Japan’s $392M Young Adult Novel Industry? http://buff.ly/2hwkNtj #yalit
Waking Brain Cells 