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CHILDREN’S BOOKS

10 Questions With…Illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi | ALL THE WRITE NOTES http://buff.ly/1o9O5vN #kidlit

BEA 2014: Diversity in Children’s Publishing http://buff.ly/1pIRK5P #kidlit

BEA Buzz: Five graphic novels to look forward to this year — Good Comics for Kids http://buff.ly/1jQyECV #kidlit

Cameron McAllister’s top 10 amazing machines in children’s books | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1ulw6o4 #kidlit

Harry Potter And The Forbidden Books : NPR http://buff.ly/1pIWLbH #kidlit

Here’s What Would Happen If Your Favorite Childhood Books Were Written Today http://buff.ly/1oS19I6 #kidlit #humor

Judy Blume: Parents worry too much about what children read – Telegraph http://buff.ly/1ob6xUM #kidslit #reading

Librarian Preview: Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group (Fall 2014) — @fuseeight A Fuse #8 Production http://buff.ly/1pIQ9gv #kidlit

Predictions! 2014 NYT Best Illustrated Children’s Books — @100scopenotes 100 Scope Notes http://buff.ly/1jRdi8D #kidlit

RAISING A READER Organization Offers Tips for Getting Children to Read During Summer Vacation – BWWBooksWorld http://buff.ly/1pPTWWw

Robert Sabuda’s top 10 pop-up books | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1oS0S84 #kidlit

Welcome, Little One | Great Books about Babies | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/1jQxirY #kidlit

Writing advice from Roald Dahl | Simon Read http://buff.ly/1jR7BHL #writing #authors #kidlit

LIBRARIES

5 Ways Libraries Cultivate Community Art| Erinn Batykefer | http://buff.ly/1jQxCXG #libraries

Check Out the Internet: Libraries Lending Internet Access http://buff.ly/1oG5FJG #libraries

How your library can get a gig – District Dispatch http://buff.ly/1kyzBWC #libraries

Libraries see light after years of cuts http://buff.ly/1ulvqiq #libraries

PRIVACY

TechFiat – Decentralized Economics • Today is the day we Reset the Net http://buff.ly/1pIM2RB #privacy

TEEN READS

I Say Awkward Things To Authors: BEA 2014 Edition | BOOK RIOT http://buff.ly/1oa1y74 #bea – I thought I was the only one who did this!

The Muscle-Flexing, Mind-Blowing Book Girls Will Inherit The Earth : Monkey See : NPR http://buff.ly/1jVUHIn #yalit

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr accounts this week that I think are cool:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

12 Quotes From Roald Dahl for Book Lovers http://buff.ly/1kbKkzU #kidlit #writing

15 Spanish-English children’s books to help your child embrace diversity http://buff.ly/1gEZwuy #kidlit

Creep around Graveyards, Search for Spies | Summer Reading for Grades 4-8 | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/1jXQpWs #kidlit

Delightful Difference: ‘This Is a Moose’ and ‘Froodle’ – NYT http://buff.ly/1kbImzy #kidlit

Diversity in Children’s Lit: Mediocrity Matters as Much as Masterpieces – The Atlantic http://buff.ly/RCl7bi #kidlit #diversity

Henry Winkler: I didn’t read a book myself until I was 31 years old | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1oFtBun #reading

How to Get Kids Hooked on Nonfiction Books This Summer | MindShift http://buff.ly/1tqG98V #kidlit #nonfiction #reading

Kate DiCamillo’s Picks For Summer Treehouse Reading : NPR http://buff.ly/1jOMNGe #kidlit

Number Five Bus presents… | potentially interesting interactions with fellow book people http://buff.ly/1kg3q80 #kidlit

“Of course she’s pretty!”: What happens when kids only see white people in books http://buff.ly/RCkWfU #kidlit

LIBRARIES

How Do You Library? – http://buff.ly/1kg2PTS #libraries #howilibrary

PUBLISHING

Amazon speaks out on Hachette dispute: “We are not optimistic that this will be resolved soon” — GigaOM http://buff.ly/RCpSkU

TEEN READS

Authors Talk ‘Two Boys Kissing’ LIVE http://buff.ly/1nhioQO #yalit

Author Mitali Perkins: 3 YA Novels To Help Us Remember Our Nigerian Girls http://buff.ly/1nbv8by #yalit

Patrick Ness’s top 10 ‘unsuitable’ books for teenagers | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1jXVfTL #yalit

Top 10 books to read now you’ve finished The Fault in Our Stars | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1ns3ycS #yalit

When Holden Met Katniss: The 40 Best YA Novels | Rolling Stone http://buff.ly/1nbuYkE #yalit

Who decides what I get to read? | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1gEZqTF #yalit

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr accounts this week that I think are cool:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

37 Children’s Books That Changed Your Life http://buff.ly/1vtqklV #kidlit

CCBlogC: Watch the 2014 Arbuthnot Lecture http://buff.ly/1gbfj4c #kidlit

Damian Dibben’s top 10 time travel books | Guardian- Children’s books http://buff.ly/1jGBAYp #kidlit

Diversity in Children’s Books: Moving From Outcry to Real, Market-Driven Solutions| Kyle Zimmer | http://buff.ly/1lXFvgq #kidlit

Elmer – celebrating difference for 25 years – in pictures | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1o6IzMc #kidlit

Funny business – The Horn Book http://buff.ly/S0fzYP #kidlit #humor

If You Want To Teach Kids History, Try Grossing Them Out First : NPR http://buff.ly/1vt6dEl #kidlit

Sassy siblings – The Horn Book http://buff.ly/S0fCDY #kidlit

EBOOKS

OverDrive & Smashwords Announce Distribution Deal; 200,000 Titles by 80,000 Authors Now Available | LJ INFOdocket http://buff.ly/SevGly

LIBRARIES

Brewster Kahle, the Librarian of 404 Billion Websites | Motherboard http://buff.ly/1mA2NeT #libraries

The New York Public Library Comes Around : The New Yorker http://buff.ly/1hQXeDz #libraries

This library is anything but quiet : http://buff.ly/Tz5FP8 – http://buff.ly/Tz5HGA #libraries

What’s Really Wrong With Google?| Nancy K. Humphreys | http://buff.ly/1lXL6Dv #libraries #google

Why buy when you can borrow instead? – Chicago Tribune http://buff.ly/1ojvmNx #libraries

Why Libraries Matter – a day in the life of New York Public Library – The Atlantic http://buff.ly/1j2ILEp #libraries

Why the death of net neutrality would be a disaster for libraries http://buff.ly/1jQW76y #netneutrality #libraries

TECHNOLOGY

UK launches large-scale study into mobile risk to kids (Wired UK) http://buff.ly/1jR6ZRW #technology #mobile #children

Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests | Electronic Frontier Foundation http://buff.ly/1sX9dXp #privacy

TEEN READS

30 Diverse YA Titles To Get On Your Radar | BOOK RIOT http://buff.ly/1ojsEHQ #yalit

Bummer summer – The Horn Book http://buff.ly/S0fGDD #yalit

Feminist Young Adult Novels That You Must Read – Flavorwire http://buff.ly/1nYNSdV #yalit

The Mortal Instruments author Cassandra Clare interview – video | Children’s books http://buff.ly/RUSaI5 #yalit

Reading over the Rainbow | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1vtqeum #yalit #libraries #lgbtq

Terrible Trivium – On ‘The John Green Effect,’ Contemporary Realism, and Form as a Political Act http://buff.ly/1sWVr7h #yalit #diversity

TLT: Teen Librarian’s Toolbox: Dear Media, Let me help you write that article on YA literature http://buff.ly/1j2EH78 #yalit

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BOOKS

A BBQ Book That You Can LITERALLY Barbecue With «TwistedSifter http://buff.ly/1swVogh

The reason every book about Africa has the same cover—and it’s not pretty – Quartz http://buff.ly/1iGhQhs

Why Books Stink: A GIF Response | BOOK RIOT http://buff.ly/1swXMUl

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

An Expanded Cultural Diversity Booklist: SLJ Readers Respond | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/1ojmTw3

Fifty Great Books to Read With Kids http://buff.ly/1jfL2Se

Jen Robinson’s Book Page: Announcing the 8th Annual Kidlitosphere Conference! http://buff.ly/1stDB9B

Top Ten Books to Get Kids Moving by Annie Orsini and Kendra Limback | Nerdy Book Club http://buff.ly/1jCYcIo

What Are Kids Reading in School? See the Most-Read Books in Each Grade – US News http://buff.ly/1uV443T

Women in STEM – The Horn Book http://buff.ly/1jH2y14

EBOOKS

Much at Stake in Amazon-HBG Fight http://buff.ly/1nJwpWS

LIBRARIES

Chicago public library offers robot rentals | Northwest Herald http://buff.ly/1jCXpXJ

College libraries should keep their books in the stacks. http://buff.ly/1uVWy96

Missoula Public Library opens new bike station http://buff.ly/1uV0zKT

“Stack attack”? The NYPL controversy and the future of public libraries | Pew Internet Libraries http://buff.ly/1stGxmE

YA LIT

John Green and his Nerdfighters Are Upending the Summer Blockbuster Model http://buff.ly/1swVmVB

Stacked: Get Genrefied: Historical Fantasy http://buff.ly/1jGV26g

What are the best LGBT books for children, teenagers and YAs? | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1jIN10S

YA books on death: is young adult fiction becoming too dark? | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1jCY9vZ

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr accounts this week that I think are pretty cool:

CHILDREN’S LIT

12 Irrefutable, Amazing Reasons We Need More Diversity In Books http://buff.ly/1nYx74W #kidlit

Children’s Books. Still an All-White World? | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/1mvy4lI #kidlit

Our kids’ grey matter is neither pink nor blue – when will book publishers realise this? – The Independent http://buff.ly/1mvA6Cm #kidlit

Pioneers in Pigtails: Remembering the First Heroines Who Made Us Mighty| Megan Jean Sovern | http://buff.ly/1myuuCU #kidlit

EBOOKS

Take Your Bookshelf Anywhere: BitLit Gives Readers an eBook Version of a Book They Already Own | BetaKit http://buff.ly/1s2uA7t #ebooks

TEEN READS

Disabled Characters in YA Literature | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/SF7uta #yalit

‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Author John Green on Fandom and His Favorite YA Romances – The Wire http://buff.ly/1qfApma #yalit

What’s Old is New: Recent YA Books with Allusions to Classic Lit | SLJ Spotlight | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/1mvAVv0 #yalit

YA LGBTQ Novels Where the Focus Isn’t Coming Out – Small Avalanches http://buff.ly/1nT5PwD #LGBTQ #yalit

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr accounts this week that I think are pretty cool:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Children’s Books: A Shifting Market http://buff.ly/1hMHm8F

Eight Favorite Books Starring Interesting, Exciting, Daring, Adventurous Girls!| Lori Day | http://buff.ly/1hWHLWc

How to keep kids reading through the summer – http://buff.ly/1hJ1KHG

Juicy As a Pear: Wanda Gag’s Delectable Books for Children : The New Yorker http://buff.ly/1nXaBGw

Jump into the #WeNeedDiverseBooks Campaign, Help Change the World | BOOK RIOT http://buff.ly/1rJnGUt #diversity #reading #books

Notable novels in verse – The Horn Book http://buff.ly/1nXfyzf

Resources and Kid Lit About American Indians | Focus On | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/1mdULGr

Top 10 life-affirming reads | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1hMGiSe

Wimpy Kid and Family to Hit the Road in ‘The Long Haul’ http://buff.ly/1iwSt6i

EBOOKS

Harper Lee agrees to ebook version of To Kill a Mockingbird | Books http://buff.ly/1hJ74uH

What You Need to Know Before Letting Your Kids Read E-Books http://buff.ly/1nX6jPG

Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper | Science | WIRED http://buff.ly/1hWGRce

LIBRARIES

How libraries are responding to the second digital divide http://buff.ly/R0vKVp

TEEN READS

Blindingly White: BookCon, John Green, and Knowing When It’s Time to Speak Up | BOOK RIOT http://buff.ly/1iwRinp

Should white people write about people of color? – Malinda Lo http://buff.ly/1hJc7eK

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr accounts this week that I think are pretty cool:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

10 Steps to Raising a Lifelong Reader | HarperCollins Children’s Books http://buff.ly/1fu8uVv #reading #kidlit

Cliff McNish’s top 10 dogs in children’s books | Children’s books http://buff.ly/1lu6DUh #kidlit

Disney Partners with Bestselling Children’s Authors for New Star Wars Adaptations http://buff.ly/1lu5QTt #kidlit #starwars

Horn Book has some great recommended reading for Earth Day! http://buff.ly/1k1e5XM #kidlit

LIBRARIES

As Researchers Turn to Google, Libraries Navigate the Messy World of Discovery Tools – Chronicle of Higher Education http://buff.ly/1ii0gpp

The future of the library: How they’ll evolve for the digital age. http://buff.ly/1mIfPZx #libraries

Use videos to advocate for libraries http://buff.ly/1lJmOgS #libraries

READING

Actually, online skimming probably hasn’t affected serious reading after all http://buff.ly/1mwgm0n #ebooks #reading

Children Who Visit Museums Have Higher Achievement in Reading, Math, and Science | UpNext: The IMLS Blog http://buff.ly/1jGi1LE

"Where do you buy these?" – The Horn Book http://buff.ly/1jjtqRu #reading #libraries

TEEN READS

Sherman Alexie novel given out in Idaho school district that banned it http://buff.ly/1ihWUCJ #yalit

YA Adaptations Are Now Turning to Male Leads http://buff.ly/1mAUAc2 #yalit

YA Historical Fiction for Downton Abbey Fans| Lisa Parkin | http://buff.ly/1fu6OLX #yalit

Here are the links I shared on my Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr accounts this week that I think are pretty cool:

CHILDREN’S BOOK

Heather Tomlinson – Blog – Continuing the "diversity" conversation http://buff.ly/1imBCCy #kidlit

Hogwarts Is Here is like a MOOC for Harry Potter fans, and you can enroll online for free. http://buff.ly/1p6IRUq #kidlit

Katherine Rundell: ‘wouldn’t it be fantastic if people actually did live up here on rooftops and nobody knows?’s http://buff.ly/1p6LmG7

We Need Bigger Megaphones for Diversity in Kid Lit | BOOK RIOT http://buff.ly/1imBa7e #kidlit

EBOOKS

It’s an Ebook World for Young Readers 13 and Under Says PlayCollective Report | SLJ http://buff.ly/1m7EHJI #ebooks

LIBRARIES

YA LIT

8 Young Adult Books That Should Be Movies (And Who Should Star in Them) http://buff.ly/OP81Gi #yalit

Are Teen Girls Seeing Themselves Reflected in What They Read? http://buff.ly/1l1NOHO #kidlit

James Patterson wins the 2014 Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Award. http://buff.ly/1l1S0Yk #kidlit

Read This, Then That: TALKER 25 and Other Fantastic YA Dragon Tales | BOOK RIOT http://buff.ly/OP8pVd #yalit

Stacked: Revisiting YA Verse Novels: A 2014 Guide to the Format http://buff.ly/1oTiGjT #yalit

Veronica Roth: YA Novels Aren’t Frivolous Teen Fiction | Neon Tommy http://buff.ly/1p6Lt4E #yalit