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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 6)Hi Folks, I'm Marc Aronson, and I Love nonfiction. Saying hat sounds a bit like A.A., with nonfiction being my addiction. I'll be hanging around this street corner every month, trying to hook you. I'll write about...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 78, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIT IS 8:00 P.M., and I would very much like my three-year-old son to go to sleep. Stacked on his night table are Goodnight Moon, Grandfather Twilight, the Going-to-Bed-Book, but he insists on reading a rollicking...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 55, Issue 6)I was driving along a muddy road in the English countryside last fall in a brown jeep that was probably used by the English army several wars ago. It was raining, and the only way to get the windshield wipers to work...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 1)AS READERS OF THIS COLUMN KNOW, I HAVE PLENTY OF OPINIONS ON THE subject of boys and reading. But recently, as I was preparing to address the New Jersey Reading Association on that topic, I figured I'd better take a...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 10)Standing in line at the supermarket, next to a rack of celebrity-obsessed magazines, I'm treated to a barrage of headlines about pregnancy. Is she "showing"? asks one popular publication. "When is she due?" inquire...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 12)AS A BOY, I WAS A BIG FAN OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT. HOW COULD A COMPETITIVE, not-very-athletic New York City kid like myself help but admire a scrawny New Yorker who transformed himself into a college boxer and a Rough Rider?...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 7)I'VE OFTEN HEARD REVIEWERS, LIBRARIANS, AND EVEN TEENS GRUMBLE about the mistakes they've discovered in bound galleys or advanced readers copies: typos, misspellings, missing indexes, out-of-order citations--you name...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 51, Issue 6)I spent nine years in graduate school studying American history, then another four researching and writing three books on colonial America. By last year I had read enough to be pretty sure I understood how America came...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5974)Sir,--Maria Margaronis's review of Follies calls the play "Stephen Sondheim's" work (Arts, September 15), and focuses on his text in its current "dazzling" revival--on the way to seeing the play itself as a "dead end"....
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 55, Issue 3)Even as President Obama's first major initiative, his stimulus plan, fights its way through Congress, I can see at least three ways in which his administration will influence how we teach history in our schools. The...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 1)RECENTLY, THERE HAS BEEN AN EXPLOSION OF INNOVATION IN FICTION and picture books--from the proliferation of novels in verse or in multiple voices to the triumphant rise of the graphic novel. But what makes for...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 56, Issue 1)TALK ABOUT CHUTZPAH. It took Phillip Hoose four years to track down Claudette Colvin, but it was worth the wait. Last November, Hoose's Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, the true story of a teen who refused to...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 3)"SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1793" THE SUN CAME UP, AS IT HAD EVERY DAY since the end of May, bright, hot, and unrelenting.... Dead fish and gooey vegetable matter were exposed and rotted, while swarms of insects droned in the...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 54, Issue 9)I was cleaning up around the house the other day when I came across John Brewer's review of Boyd Hilton's A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 17831845 (Oxford University, 2008) in the New York Review of Books. The...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 54, Issue 6)Friends, we have a serious problem, and it's harming those who create nonfiction books for younger readers and those who read them. While I was at the Texas Library Association's annual conference in April, I noticed...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 8)A 19-year-old Harvard sophomore is paid half a million dollars for a novel about a young woman who wants to go to Harvard-and the book turns out to include passages lifted from other writers' novels. The National...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 8)I just spent a very happy hour at my local library. John W. Glenn and I met with some 4-5th graders and a few adults to talk about our forthcoming book The World Made New. The neat part was the enthusiasm from both the...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 54, Issue 3)What should we include in biographies for young readers? Should we exclude the disputed parts of peoples' lives? I found myself thinking about those questions as I was reading the January 25, 2008, issue of the Times...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 12)THIS COLUMN ISN'T ABOUT SEX OR BANNED BOOKS. IT'S ABOUT WHAT'S considered "normal" and how that relates to reading. I started thinking about that topic on a recent visit to my local pharmacy. I happened to be walking...