Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Children's Books in the Media - PW

IN THE MEDIA

From the Bookseller:
Posing as gossip columnist Rita Skeeter, J.K. Rowling writes a story about 30-something Harry Potter and co. on Pottermore. Click here
From Today:
Read Rowling's Rita Skeeter column on "the Potter family and the rest of Dumbledore's Army." Click here
From Forbes:
The rise of YA authors on the Celebrity 100 list of the "most powerful personalities in the worlds of movies, TV, books, sports, music, and modeling." Click here
From the N.Y. Daily News:
An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society honors the work of Madeline creator Ludwig Bemelmans. Click here
From USA Today:
A cover reveal for and excerpt from Gayle Forman's next YA novel, I Was Here. Click here
From the New York Times:
From the op-ed pages: the fallacy of "balanced literacy." Click here
From BuzzFeed:
"I was asked out via a John Green book." Click here
From Cake Wrecks:
Cakes inspired by Madeline, the Giving Tree, and others. Click here
From the Guardian:
J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be filmed at the Warner Bros. complex in the U.K., where the Harry Potter movies were shot. Click here
From Mashable:
Fans flooded Pottermore to read the new Harry Potter story, temporarily crashing the site. Click here
From the Los Angeles Times:
The Reading Rainbow Kickstarter, with more than 104,000 backers donating more than $5 million, becomes the most popular Kickstarter to date. Click here
From the New York Times:
At 75, still stepping out of line: Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeline celebrates a milestone. Click here
From the Guardian:
Author Maggie Stiefvater: "I steal a real human heart for each of my characters." Click here
From School Library Journal:
Eight reasons that print trumps digital for reading. Click here
From the Huffington Post:
Why John Green loves wearing makeup. Click here
From BuzzFeed:
50 tattoos inspired by books from childhood. Click here

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