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BLOGS GOOD COMICS FOR KIDS Recent Graphic Novel Deals, April 2024 | News GOOD COMICS FOR KIDS Fake Chinese Sounds | Review TEEN LIBRARIAN TOOLBOX Mission: Make History Not Boring, a guest post by Matthew Landis 100 SCOPE NOTES 10 to Note: Summer Preview 2024 A FUSE #8 PRODUCTION The Pastabilities Are Endless: Q&A with Aimee Lucideo About Pasta Pasta Lotsa Pasta SOCIAL MEDIA Social Media + Disability + Picture Books = Friendship! | Interview BOOKLISTS 9 Board Books and Picture Books About Daddy and Me for Father’s Day and Beyond BOOKS & MEDIA 44 Spectacular Titles, Including Cookbooks | Starred Reviews, May 2024 INDUSTRY NEWS Beware Workarounds. Attempting to Appease Censors, Libraries Risk Compromising Values. | From the Editor More News & Features BOOKS & REVIEWS 17 Adventure-Filled Transitional Books to Kick Off Summer Reading | We Are Kid Lit Collective Webcast: Manga "PowerPoint Party" | May 17 44 Spectacular Titles, Including Cookbooks | Starred Reviews, May 2024 More Books & Reviews BOOKS & REVIEWS 17 Adventure-Filled Transitional Books to Kick Off Summer Reading | We Are Kid Lit Collective Webcast: Manga "PowerPoint Party" | May 17 44 Spectacular Titles, Including Cookbooks | Starred Reviews, May 2024 SPONSORED SPONSORED LGBTQIA+ Books Fly in the Face of Bans SPONSORED Great STEM Content Can Reignite Support for Science SPONSORED Summer Reading: Big Adventures for Little Readers More Sponsored Content SPONSORED SPONSORED LGBTQIA+ Books Fly in the Face of Bans SPONSORED Great STEM Content Can Reignite Support for Science SPONSORED Summer Reading: Big Adventures for Little Readers EXPLORE SLJ Editors’ Picks Research Classroom & Curricula Graphic Novels Opinion Most PopularCENSORSHIP The Cover-Up: Under Pressure, Some School Librarians Alter Illustrations to Avoid Book Challenges Andrew Bauld , May 01, 2024 Fearing book removal or losing their jobs, library professionals conceal bare butts and other exposed body parts in picture books. PROGRAMS & PROGRAMMING Reasons to Love Libraries Mar 08, 2024 Got a reason to love libraries? Download your choice of Reasons to Love ­Libraries” social assets to tell your own library story. BOOKLISTS 21 Inclusive Picture Books to Jump-Start Summer Reading | We Are Kid Lit Collective Sam Bloom, Edith Campbell, Ariana Hussain, Sujei Lugo & Lyn Miller-Lachmann , May 02, 2024 From the Caldecott-winning Big by Vashti Harrison to a bilingual counting book in Mi’kmaw and English, these illustrated works are guaranteed to engage young readers during summer break and all year around. CENSORSHIP Defending the Canon: SLJ & NCTE Review 15 Banned Classics SLJ Reviewers and NCTE , Apr 17, 2024 In our last round of reviews of banned classics, SLJ and NCTE cover two of Jane Austen’s works, the timely Fahrenheit 451 , and the heartbreaking I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. More Editors’ PicksINDUSTRY NEWS Spend It if You Can | SLJ 2024 Budget SurveyMarlaina Cockcroft , Apr 04, 2024With budgets mostly flat, book challenges and rising costs pose hurdles for school librarians.INDUSTRY NEWS BIPOC Representation in Children’s Literatures Continues Its Slow Rise, According to CCBC’s Diversity StatisticsSLJ Staff , Apr 04, 2024The Cooperative Children’s Book Center released its latest Diversity Statistics report on children’s literature, showing another year of small increases in books with BIPOC primary characters and significant BIPOC content.INDUSTRY NEWS Sora Report: Digital Reading Increases with Double-Digit Growth in Comics and Graphic NovelsSLJ Staff , Apr 03, 2024The State of K-12 Digital Reading breaks down the data for the 2022-23 school year, showing the popularity of comics and graphic novels in the digital format plus regional differences in reading habits.INDUSTRY NEWS From a Young Age, Children Tune in to Audiobooks | SurveyMarlaina Cockcroft , Jan 04, 2024Children are eager listeners—of audiobooks, according to a new Library Journal / survey. Libraries are keeping up with the demand as formats evolve.CENSORSHIP Nearly a Quarter of School Librarians Have Experienced Harassment Over Books | SLJ Censorship SurveyKathy Ishizuka , Sep 30, 2023Twenty-four percent of school librarians have been harassed this past year over books or displays in their library. That’s according to a recent SLJ survey, which found the rate even higher among high school librarians, 30 percent of whom have experienced harassment.BOOKS & MEDIA Graphic Novels, Manga Explode in Popularity Among Students | SLJ SurveyMarlaina Cockcroft , Oct 03, 2023If graphic novels are flying off the shelves at your library, that reflects a remarkable trend: The format’s popularity has shot up at over 90 percent of school libraries in the last few years, according to a new SLJ survey.INDUSTRY NEWS SLJ, NCTE Launch Survey to Remake Summer Reading ListsSLJ staff , Jan 19, 2022Those dreaded summer reading lists. For eons, teachers have been handing out assigned reading, mostly comprised of old classics.” With this survey, SLJ and NCTE invite teachers and librarians to choose the titles you’d like culled from...