10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011

The 2011 Best Illustrated Books
New York Times (blog)
By PAMELA PAUL The New York Times Book Review has announced its list of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011. Artwork from this year's winners will appear in the special Children's Book section of the Book Review's Nov. 13 issue. ...
Books: Focusing on 'Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark'
ScrippsNews
Most famously, Renata Adler attacked her in The New York Review of Books in 1980, saying that Kael's film collection "When the Lights Go Down" was "jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless." Her 1971 essay "Raising ...
Will Kobo's Vox be silenced?
CanadianBusiness.com
With a library of more than 2.2 million e-books, with five million customers in 100 countries so far, the Toronto-based e-book retailer has shown potential to build itself into Amazon's chief global rival for digital reading, concentrating on markets ...
Read without prejudice
The Guardian
On every other block, this scene is repeated, and two authors' names repeatedly jump out at you: Teri Woods and Sister Souljah. Woods and Souljah are two of the bestselling female writers of "urban street lit", and their books wallpaper the tables. ...
Library usage falls as branches close
The Guardian
Visits to libraries have also dropped, as have the number of books issued to users and the number of new books bought by libraries, according to new statistics from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. ...
Libraries Now Loaning eBooks
Williamsburg Yorktown Daily
Just as Netflix has to work out distribution agreements with movie studios, OverDrive has to work with publishers to add their books to the selection. Some books might be available longer than others, while entire publishing houses might opt out of the ...
Scents for a refined sensibility
Vancouver Sun
By Susan Carpenter, Los Angeles Times November 3, 2011 10:07 AM The 2008 "Perfumes: The Guide" has now been culled to 100 classics in the authors' new "The Little Book of Perfumes." Anyone who's ever been trapped in a crowded elevator intrinsically ...
Zarakolu's Genocide Books Confiscated as 'Evidence'
Armenian Weekly
ISTANBUL, Turkey–Publisher Ragip Zarakolu is currently kept at the Metris high-security prison while his son Deniz Zarakolu, an editor of the Belge Publishing House, is under arrest at the Edirne Prison., reported Info-Turk.be. ...
Inside Books: The bother of embargoes
Spectator.co.uk
Emily Rhodes used to work for a major publishing house and now manages an independent bookshop in London. She is currently writing a novel. She blogs at EmilyBooks, and has just started tweeting @EmilyBooksBlog. This is the first column in her 'Inside ...
Writer for girls pitching 'Boys Camp'
Columbus Dispatch
Tripp is one of the original authors of the “American Girl” series, the sprawling literary phenomenon about girls living through important eras of US history, such as slavery, suffrage and World War II. More than 135 million of the books have been sold ...
This Holiday Season Publications International, Ltd. Offers Four Books with ...
NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)
COM/ — Books are often some of the best gifts one can give kids at the holidays, yet they often go overlooked in an increasingly electronic age. This holiday season, as consumers continue to pinch pennies, Publications International, Ltd. (PIL) offers ...
Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books - NYTimes.com
By By DAVID POGUE
Amazon is giving away books, including New York Times bestsellers, for the Kindle if you're an Amazon Prime member. It is a delightful surprise to people who signed up for Prime.
Pogue's Posts
Amazon Prime's new killer app: Kindle books by subscription ...
By Todd Bishop
“Several senior publishing executives said recently they were concerned that a digital-lending program of the sort contemplated by Amazon would harm future sales of their older titles or damage ties to other book retailers.” The announcement ...
GeekWire
10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year: Free Samples ...
By Jason Boog
Newman Communications is looking for a Book Publicist -- Account Executive/ Senior Account Executive. next job Scholastic is looking for a Supervising Editor. next job Bloomsbury PublishingInc. is looking for a Controller. next job ...
GalleyCat
Seth Godin: Books That Will Change The Way You Work & Think ...
Seth Godin: Books That Will Change The Way You Work & Think. Business guru provides a list of his recommended autumn reads which includes books by Tim Wu and John Taylor Gatto. Seth Godin. Posted as a headline on November 3, ...
PSFK
7 Of My Favorite Books On Body Image | Weightless
By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS
I have many books to thank for contributing to my positive body image. Here are seven books that helped me boost my body image, ditch dieting and embrace true health.
Weightless
Borrow Kindle Books for Free from Amazon—If You Have Prime ...
By Melanie Pinola
Have a Kindle? Amazon will now loan you free books, as long as you're a Prime member. Add in the free shipping and video streaming and you've got a really compelling reason to join Amazon Prime.
Lifehacker
Five Titles Compete for Etisalat Arabic Kids Lit Prize | Publishing ...
By Edward Nawotka
We are proud of the award's contribution in increasing interest in Arabic children's literature, whether in encouraging publishers and authors to release books of high value to children, or in raising the awareness of parents about the ...
Publishing Perspectives
Amazon Bypasses Library, Lends Kindle Books Directly - Eastman's ...
By Dick Eastman
If your local library is not participating, you now have another option: starting this week, Amazon is also lending books directly to Kindle owners without requiring a library card or any other form of library membership. You do have to shell out ...
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Harlequin Offers Publishing Contract as Prize in Writing Contest
Sacramento Bee
Harlequin.com), one of the world's leading publishers of books for women, is offering aspiring authors the opportunity to win a publishing contract as a prize as part of its second annual online So You Think You Can Write conference, which takes place ...
One in Five Adults Now Using E-Books
MarketWatch (press release)
The proprietary, nationally representative survey feeds into Simba's Trade E-Book Publishing Report series, which began tracking e-book usage and purchasing habits in 2008. Since Simba's survey is administered quarterly, new gadgets such as Apple's ...
Lulu.com Adds Distribution for Free eBooks
MarketWatch (press release)
RALEIGH, NC, Nov 3, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Lulu.com, the leader in self-publishing, announced today a new free pricing feature for eBooks that enables authors to sell their digital content to their readers with a price tag of $0.00. ...
Madoff vs. Madoff: Battle of books leaves readers scammed
Reuters
I've just read two new books about the Madoffs, both of which promise to shed light on the family at the heart of the biggest financial fraud in human history. Bernie Madoff, of course, ran a two-decades-long Ponzi scheme that blew a $50-billion hole ...

A must-read for cat lovers
The State Journal-Register (blog)
The story revolves around a blind kitten she hesitantly adopts in her hometown of Miami Beach, Fla., despite her apprehension about adding a third cat to her single-girl household. She frets about her capacity to care for a blind cat and the types of ...
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