January 2012
7 posts
Mexican WhiteBoy Banned in Tucson › Matt de la... →
Tucson schools have just “shut down” all courses related to Mexican American Studies (in essence, banning Chicano authors). If you’re familiar with Tucson’s racial makeup, you know this means that literally thousands of Chicano students will no longer be allowed to see a reflection of themselves in literature. The teachers literally had to pack up the books and remove them from their...
Publishers Claim Digital Rights Over Older Titles... →
Open Road Integrated Media has been signing up the authors of well-known older book titles for digital distribution, under the theory that the previous contracts didn’t mention digital rights, so they remain with the authors, who can sign new deals relating to them. The established publishers, who don’t want the competition for the same titles in print on their backlists, disagree.
Many Things Have Happened →
A girl came home from her first semester at college. I am frequently amazed all anew at the fluidity of a concept like normal: one minute you’re lying in a hospital bed, holding a little red burrito which a stranger has just handed you and saying to yourself, “Just exactly what have I done to my heretofore agreeable life?” The next minute the burrito is calling you long...
The Next Ice Age and the Anthropocene -... →
growing body of research concluding that what was once seen as an inevitable descent into the next ice age has been put off for a very long time by the building blanket of greenhouse gases generated by humanity’s burst of fossil fuel combustion.
School ADD Isn’t Homeschool ADD | Laura Grace... →
After giving the teacher kudos for dealing with a classroom full of children and acknowledging the difficulty of meeting all their needs, I tried to stand up for my child (although I felt like a mother bear defending her cub from nicely dressed predators). I said the behaviors she noted actually seemed normal for a six-year-old boy, after all, children are in the process of maturing and are not...
The 2011 Cybils Finalists →
Shortlists of the best children’s and YA books of 2011. Whee!