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Showing posts with label revised. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revised. Show all posts
Saturday, March 11, 2023

Another New Cover for Frank Asch's POPCORN

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Back on July 23, 2015, I wrote about Frank Asch's picture book, Popcorn. It came out in 1979 and is about Sam (a bear) who is having a H...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Update on AS AN OAK TREE GROWS (originally reviewed on Oct 12, 2014)

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In October of 2014, AICL reviewed the opening pages of As An Oak Tree Grows by G. Brian Karas.  Last week, a reader wrote to tell me that sh...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Why did Dav Pilkey and Scholastic decide they will no longer publish THE ADVENTURES OF OOK AND GLUK, KUNG FU CAVEMEN FROM THE FUTURE?

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Note: These updates are based on information I received after I wrote the blog post. They are in reverse chronological order (newest one app...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Do you use Le Roy H. Appleton's American Indian Design & Decoration?

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Update, 7:50 PM, September 25, 2018: Earlier today, Rosanne Parry submitted a comment to my review of her book, saying that the Makah and th...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2018

Robot lifting skirt of Black child will not appear in future printings of THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF SPACE

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Back in December of 2017, a mother saw  The Ultimate Book of Space  and bought it as a Christmas gift for her daughter. When she was home sh...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

"Circle the wagons" will come out of next printings of Robin Benway's FAR FROM THE TREE

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Robin Benaway's Far from the Tree , published in 2017 by HarperTeen/HarperCollins, won the 2017 National Book Award for Young People'...
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Friday, July 21, 2017

Not recommended: TWISTED TRUE TALES FROM SCIENCE: MEDICAL MAYHEM

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This morning, I read Elisa Gall's review of Medical Mayhem , a book in the "Twisted True Tales from Science" series published ...
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

"Totem pole" will not appear in future printings of Robin Talley's AS I DESCENDED

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On Friday, I read On Making Mistakes on Robin Talley's Tumblr page. There, she wrote: Two weeks ago, my latest book,  As I Descended ...
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Thursday, September 01, 2016

Use of "Columbus discovered America" leads to book being recalled

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Those who follow developments specific to depictions of Native and People of Color in children's and young adult literature know that A ...
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Monday, August 15, 2016

"Spirit Animal" will not appear in future printings of Julie Murphy's DUMPLIN'

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Last year, people were very excited about Julie Murphy's Dumplin. It is one of the books that, by word of mouth, I figured I would want ...
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Friday, August 12, 2016

Ashley Hope Perez's OUT OF DARKNESS

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Note: There are a great many people who think Ashley Hope Perez is Latinx, but she is not. I thought she was but have since learned she is...
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Friday, August 05, 2016

When We Was Fierce + A Birthday Cake for George Washington + A Fine Dessert...

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It has been a landmark year in children's literature. I don't mean the calendar year of 2016. I mean the year marked by August 4th, ...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

A Comparison: D'Aulaire's ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1939 and 2015

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On December 1, 2015, Publisher's Weekly ran an article about Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire's Abraham Lincoln. For its 75th an...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Stereotypical words and images: Gone!

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Over the years, I've written about children's books that were revised. A few days ago I compiled links about revised books (some a...
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Friday, November 13, 2015

Revisions to THE CASE FOR LOVING

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Earlier this year, The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage , by Selina Alko, illustrated by Alko and Sean Qualls, was publis...
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