Minorities under-represented in media, study finds
We’ve talked about this before in a previous blog entry, but Channel 4 News recently published another segment on the under-representation of minorities in children’s literature. During an informal interview done… Read more »
Twenty years later, Junot Díaz fulfills a picture-book-shaped promise to his goddaughters
Not-exactly-prolific (but very successful and cool!) author Junot Díaz (The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown) has written a picture book, reports Alexander Alter in the New York… Read more »
The scientific theory behind what makes Dr. Seuss funny
A psychology professor at the University of Alberta claims to have found the scientific answer to that age-old question: why is Dr. Seuss so funny? Chris Westbury was conducting research… Read more »
Walter Dean Myers and his son talk about race and children’s books
In the Sunday Times, YA author Walter Dean Myers and his son Christopher Myers, an illustrator, discussed the necessity of more diverse children’s books. A new study from the Cooperative… Read more »
Movies R Fun and books r 2!: new book lets kids experience terrifying grown up movies
Kids are a drag. They drag down the intellectual level of every conversation they enter, and—worst of all—they drag down the quality of movies you can watch. Pixar Animation Studios… Read more »
A previously unseen letter written by Lewis Carroll, the pseudonym of Charles Dodgson, has revealed his strong dislike of fame, and the regret he felt over his Alice in Wonderland… Read more »
Give the kids what they want! More books, fewer toys in Happy Meals!
McDonald’s doesn’t do things small (can you supersize that Bacon Habanero Ranch Quarter Pounder?), so it makes a certain amount of sense that when they decided to include children’s books… Read more »
Are picture books making kids materialistic?
While working as a babysitter and nanny, University of Vermont student Rachel Franz, a double-minor in studio art and green building and community design, noticed that many of the picture… Read more »
British author says libraries are merely “sentimental”
Terry Deary, the bestselling-author of a series for children called Horrible Histories, caused a bit of a flap in in the UK this week when he said that libraries don’t… Read more »
Reading to four-year-old kids will help them in their teens, according to new study
New research presented at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting last weekend suggests that the brain is particularly sensitive and receptive to a stimulating environment at age four. “An early… Read more »