CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Children’s books round-up: A great fantasy story to distract from Covid – The Irish Times

LIBRARIES

Banned Books Week through an alternate lens: Amnesty International – ALA OIF Intellectual Freedom Blog

Online storytimes: an interview about technology and connecting – ALSC Blog

A pandemic side effect: low morale in public libraries – Public Libraries Online

Sharjah World Book Capital leads Beirut Library restoration aid – Publishing Perspectives

Why GoodReads is bad for books – NewStatesman

TEEN LIT

8 transgender YA books written by trans and nonbinary authors – Book Riot

2020 pandemic novels for young readers – Publishers Weekly

Laurie Halse Anderson and Tiffany Jackson discuss YA and the Me Too movement – EW

Portable and tote-able: 60 fall 2020 YA paperbacks – Book Riot