Madeline L'Engle's The Joys of Love (previously unpublished and written in 1950 is being reissued by Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (Publisher's Weekly)

BookVideos.tv (Creators TurnHere describe it as a "new multi-publisher book-centric network." At first I thought it was a giant book-movie trailer site... but it's much more.) (GalleyCat)

Minders of Make Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature (by Leonard S. Marcus. Sounds serious and not for those that take children's literature lightly.) (Bookslut)

This author created his own cover (Cool follow-up to our recent post about YA covers. Check out James Owen's The Search for the Red Dragon) (Omnivoracious)

Skepticism (about the Renaissance Learning's "What Books Are Students Reading in Grades 1-12") (Educating Alice)

The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Director Chris Wedge ["Ice Age" and "Robots"] will lead the way.) (Yahoo! News)

'Sarah Dessen, YA before YA was cool' (I dunno, she looks pretty young to me. YA's been cool for a long time.) (IndyWeek)

Wilmington College Children's Literature Conference ("Exploring and Supporting Children's Responses to Literature" attracted over 100 high school and elementary school students. Most of the conference was for college aged education students, but how cool is it they invited the local kids for the first day?) (Wilmington News)

U.S. Department of Education, First Book and Random House ("Launch 2008 Summer Reading Initiative that will provide 850,000 free books to schools, libraries and community organizations")

Ranger's Apprentice's author (John Flanagan tells the story of how his book came to be, and how it felt to find out it was going to Hollywood.) (Sydney Morning Herald)

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