Ok...sorry....this blog has been woefully ignored. What with reading and reviewing children's books for Sweet on Books and raising a few kids, this blog has been neglected. We are hoping to change that right now. May is such an exciting month for children's literature, and we are seeing such exciting things, we just need to pass them on!
Our friends at Shelf Awareness have a great quote today from Ireland's first children's laureate Author and publisher Siobhán Parkinson:
"I believe that children's literature lays the foundations of the imaginative life of a people, and that every child deserves to have access to a reading haven.... Literature plays a unique role in helping us to interrogate who we are as a society; it has the power to make us understand what it means to be human, and it offers us that most subversive of things--pleasure."
Here is a link to the full article in the UK's Guardian newspaper.
Did you know the US has a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature?? None other than the fabulous Katherine Patterson. Stay tuned for more on that...including free downloads of Patterson's writing!
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