Children's Books IN THE MEDIA with PW

From the Huffington Post: My Parents Open Carry, a picture book that aims to teach children about gun rights, ignites Internet outrage. Click here From the Telegraph: Angry parents criticize Julia Donaldson for the "inappropriate" smoking scarecrow in her new picture book. Click here From the Telegraph: J.K. Rowling sends a handwritten letter from Dumbledore to help grieving teenager Cassidy Stay. Click here From the Portland Press Herald: A look at Lois Lowry's long career, and at adapting The Giver into film. Click here From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Author Lois Duncan comes full circle. Click here From the Rumpus: "Most of my books are about the healing power of the imagination": an interview with Francesca Lia Block. Click here From Mashable: The director of Frozen will adapt Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time for Disney. Click here From the Hollywood Reporter: Lionsgate will adapt Lois Duncan's 1974 YA novel Down a Dark Hall, with Twilight author Stephenie Meyer producing. Click here From the Guardian: The Common Core goes from unifying curriculum standard to divisive hot potato. Click here From NPR: When it comes to brain development, time in the classroom may be less important than time on the playground. Click here From BuzzFeed: YA authors sort their own characters into Hogwarts houses. Click here From Bookish: From Old School to Battle School: Fictional Schools We Wish Existed. Click here From Quartz: The New York Public Library's archive of librarians' harsh children's book reviews. Click here

From the Raw Story: On The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert imagines how much better kids' books would be with more guns in them. Click here Also from the Telegraph: Defending Donaldson: "Children's picture books should show life in all its messy, complicated oddness." Click here From Variety: According to a new study, YouTube stars are more popular than Hollywood celebrities among today's teens. Click here From the New York Times: Lois Lowry talks about the ways YA fiction has changed since she wrote The Giver two decades ago. Click here From the Portland Press Herald: Author-illustrator Ashley Bryan comes of age. Click here From the Guardian: A rarely seen portrait of Roald Dahl as a young RAF pilot during World War II goes on display in London. Click here From the Hollywood Reporter: John Green's Paper Towns movie gets a release date, and Miss Peregrine moves to 2016. Click here From the Guardian: Tor will republish George R.R. Martin's children's novel The Ice Dragon, set in the world of his Song of Ice and Fire books. Click here From BBC News: The U.K.'s annual Roald Dahl Funny Prize has been put on hold for two years. Click here From Diamonds.net: The 50-carat Katya Diamond, worth $2 million, was named after the protagonist of a children's book. Click here From Paste: An art show reimagines cult movies as children's books. Click here From Flavorwire: Stereotyping Your College Roommate by Their Favorite Book. Click here From the Onion: Groundbreaking Young Adult Novel Features Protagonist Who's a Bit of a Loner. Click here