Andrew Bauld

3 weeks ago | slj.com | Terry Hong |Andrew Bauld

For young listeners who need a reminder that kindness matters and resilience is powerful, share these audio titles to provide inspiration, comfort, and even temporary escape. As 2025 progresses, we may all need more-than-the-usual anecdotal reminders that kindness matters, resilience is powerful, justice will triumph. Let these titles, all published this year, provide inspiration, comfort, and even temporary escape from the exhausting reality of damaging headlines and inequitable challenges.

3 weeks ago | slj.com | Kimberly Olson Fakih |Kara Yorio |Andrew Bauld

Bank Street’s Center for Children’s Literature has announced the 2025 winners of the Irma Black Award and Cook Prize. The Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature (Irma Black Award) is awarded annually to "an outstanding book for young children in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole."First and second grade jurors from around the world choose the winner.

2 months ago | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Andrew Bauld

We Need Diverse Books will celebrate the first We Need Diverse Books Day on April 3; senators call on acting director of IMLS to continue funding programs as directed by Congress; Suzanne Collins talks philosophy and Sunrise on the Reaping; Eric Carle Honors honorees announced; and more. We Need Diverse Books Day is April 3We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) is launching the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day on Thursday, April 3.

2 months ago | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Andrew Bauld

When President Trump signed the expected executive order to shut down the Department of Education, “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” lawsuits from teachers unions, public school districts, and others followed to challenge the illegal attempt to shut down the department without an act of Congress. But the unions that filed those suits and the lawyers representing them are not the only ones speaking out and fighting the proposed cuts and changes.

2 months ago | slj.com | Brigid Alverson |Kara Yorio |Andrew Bauld

Comics fans gathered for a convention just before COVID-19 struck, shutting down in-person events and sparking a burst of popularity for the format. Photo Courtsey by Brigid Alverson In 2020, during the last weekend of February, 90,000 comics creators, industry figures, and fans flocked to McCormick Place in Chicago for the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2).