If you’ve been wondering what to do with that $3.2m burning a hole in your pocket, you might consider investing in a piece of children’s literary history. A.A. Milne‘s former home is for sale — the very one in which his son Christopher Robin Milne grew…
In a bittersweet twist of fate, Stephen Colbert’s children’s book, I Am A Pole (and So Can You!) released yesterday, the same day Maurice Sendak died. Sendak, of course, is the author of the classic Where the Wild Things Are, the book that earned him…
The New York Times’ David Streitfeld has a profile of Tulsa-based publisher Educational Development Corporation, which in February pulled its 1,800 children’s books off of Amazon. (A move discussed in a previous MobyLives report.) Randall White, EDC’s chief executive, tells the Times that “Amazon is squeezing…
Tom Tivnan reports in The Bookseller that Worldreader — often called ‘the e-reader NGO’ — has just beta launched an app that will enable owners of ‘dumb’ phones to use them to read ebooks. The app is aimed at readers in developing countries, where…
Is this the work of anti-environmentalist radicals? A statue of the Dr. Seuss character the Lorax was stolen from the late author’s home in La Jolla, CA over the weekend. The beloved character created by Seuss (whose real name was Theodore Geisel) “speaks for the…
Move over, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty; the newest fairy tale heroine is none other than the Turnip Princess. Five hundred previously unknown Bavarian fairy tales — including “The Turnip Princess,” available to read on The Guardian’s website — have been unearthed by cultural curator Erika…
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced plans to transport its hit musical Matilda, based on the classic Roald Dahl novel, to New York early next year. Dahl’s beloved children story centers on a precocious young girl who discovers telekinetic powers and uses them to get revenge…
In their newly-released March issue, Scholastic‘s Parents magazine announces a list of the top one hundred books for kids. Culled from over 500 titles suggested by literacy experts, educators, and parents, the list is part of their literacy and reading issue. Scholastic hopes there are some surprises…
Melville House announced today that it has offered wannabe children’s book author Stephen Colbert its biggest deal ever for a first book. After hearing Colbert describe his proposed illustrated children’s book, I Am A Pole, And You Can Too—the story of a lost pole that ultimately finds its…
On this date, January 27, the eminent mathematician and Fellow of Christ Church college, Oxford, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born in 1832. He is the distinguished author of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations (1867); two…
