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This one made me cry. Ugly cry!

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A funny, heartwarming, and heartbreaking contemporary story about three boys, one teacher, and a day none of them will ever forget. Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The boring ones, the mean ones, the ones who try too hard, the ones who stopped trying long ago.

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A hilarious new middle grade novel from beloved and bestselling author Gordon Korman about what happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher-perfect for fans of Ms. Bixby's Last Day. The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks.

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This was one of my favorite reads from 2020.

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"Enticing and enthralling." -Jewell Parker Rhodes From debut author Janae Marks comes a captivating mystery full of heart, as one courageous girl questions assumptions, searches for the truth, and does what she believes is right-even in the face of great opposition. A perfect book for fans of Front Desk and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T.

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Two Naomis by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney didn't grow up wanting to be a children's author. His dream was to become a newspaper cartoonist but he wasn't able to get his comic strip syndicated.

Jeff Kinney was born in 1971 in Maryland and attended the University of Maryland in the early 1990s. It was there that Jeff ran a comic strip called "Igdoof" in the campus newspaper. He knew he wanted to be a cartoonist.

However, Jeff was not successful getting his comic strip syndicated after college, and in 1998 he started writing down ideas for Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which he hoped to turn into a book. Jeff worked on the book for six years before publishing it online on funbrain.com in daily installments.

In 2006, Jeff signed a multi-book deal with publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc. to turn Diary of a Wimpy Kid into a print series. The first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book was published in 2007 and became an instant bestseller. Just a year later, more than 100,000 copies were in print in the United States alone. With each subsequent book, in-print numbers continue to grow exponentially both in the U.S. and abroad. There are now more than 290 million copies of the series in print worldwide.

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has been a permanent fixture on the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. The series has remained on the New York Times bestseller lists since the publication of the first book, for more than 775 weeks total, and more than 350 on the series list. The books are currently available in 84 editions in 69 languages.

Since initial publication in 2007, the series has gone on to win many regional and national awards around the globe including two Children's Choice Book Awards and six Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Book. Jeff Kinney was also named one of Time magazine's most influential people in the world.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney didn't grow up wanting to be a children's author. His dream was to become a newspaper cartoonist!

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Books have been around for thousands of years. When civilizations first started developing writing systems, they would write on just about anything, from to .

Egyptians were the first to use paper-like materials, called "," which they made by pounding flat the woven stems of the plant. It was not long before the Egyptians began gluing together sheets to form scrolls, which were the first steps toward books as you know them.

The birthplace of bookbinding is considered to be India in the 2nd century B.C., where Hindi scribes would bind palm leaves that were etched with religious texts between two wooden boards using twine. The technique became popular in the Middle East and Eastern Asia, and spread to the Romans by the 2nd century A.D.

In the mid-15th century, German Johannes Gutenberg invented the first mechanical printing . His invention was revolutionary because it enabled mass production of books for the first time.

Before the printing , a few pages per day could be produced by hand-copying. Afterward, printing presses could produce as many as 3,600 pages per day.

Today, modern publishers take advantage of incredible advances in technology to produce books in many sizes and shapes very quickly. Although there are many types of processes and machines available, most processes involve similar steps.

Printers print the of a on large sheets of paper, sometimes as large as a newspaper page. Working with large volumes of paper allows printers to lower costs and produce books more efficiently .

The large sheets are then cut into smaller pages that are still about twice the of a finished . The smaller pages are then divided into small groups, folded in half, and sewn together.

Lastly, the folded and sewn pages are cut down to their finished and glued to the of the final 's . Depending on the quality of the , additional finishing touches may be added, such as blank pages at the front and back of the or special tape around the edges of the to increase durability .

Although printed books may never go away completely, today's readers will most certainly soon become more familiar with e-books. "E-" refers to an electronic , which is simply the of a displayed electronically, either via the Internet, a CD-ROM, a tablet, an e- reader, or even a mobile phone.

As electronic devices, such as tablets and mobile phones, become more commonplace , e-books are expected to become more and more popular. One of the benefits of e-books is that they save paper, which helps the environment by reducing the demand for trees.

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A book is a set of printed sheets of paper held together between two covers. The sheets of paper are usually covered with a text, language and illustrations that is the main point of a printed book.

A writer of a book is called an author. Someone who draws pictures in a book is called an illustrator. Books can have multiple authors or illustrators.

A book can also be a text in a larger collection of texts. That way a book is perhaps written by one author, or it only treats one subject area. Books in this sense can often be understood without knowing the whole collection. Examples are the Bible, the Illiad or the Odyssey - all of them consist of a number of books in this sense of the word. Encyclopedias often have separate articles written by different people, and published as separate volumes. Each volume is a book.

Hardcover books have hard covers made of cardboard covered in cloth or leather and are usually sewn together. Paperback books have covers of stiff paper and are usually glued together. The words in books may be read aloud or recorded on tapes (audiobooks) and compact discs.

Books can be borrowed from a library or bought from a bookstore. People can make their own books and fill them with family photos, drawings, or their own writing. Some books are empty inside, like a diary, address book, or photo album. Most of the time, the word "book" means that the pages inside have words printed or written on them.

Some books are written just for children, or for entertainment, while other books are for studying something in school such as math or history. Many books have photographs or drawings.

People who cannot read books, or any type of writing are called illiterate (= 'unlettered').

Types of books

There are two main kinds of book text: fiction and non-fiction.

These books are novels, about stories that did not happen, and have been imagined by the author. Some books are based on real events from history, but the author has created imaginary characters or dialogue for the events.

Non-fiction

Books of non-fiction are about true facts or things that have really happened. Some examples are dictionaries, cookbooks, textbooks for learning in school, or a biography (someone's life story).

Historical

Between the written manuscript and the book lie several inventions. A book is an industrial product, but manuscripts are hand-made.

Manuscripts

A common type of manuscript was the scroll, which was a long sheet rolled up. The sheet could have been made of papyrus (made by the Egyptians, by weaving the inner stems of the papyrus plant and then hammering them together), or parchment or vellum (very thin animal skin, first used by the ancient Greeks), or paper (made from plant fibers, invented by the Chinese). Turning the manuscript into a book required several developments.

The Romans were the first people to put separate pieces of manuscript between covers, to form a codex. This was more convenient to handle and store than scrolls, but was not yet a book as we understand it.

Scrolls and codices were written and copied by hand. The Chinese invented woodblock printing, where shapes are carved out of a block of wood, then ink is applied to the carved side, and the block is pressed onto the paper. This way of making books was very slow, and so very few people had these kinds of books.

Johannes Gutenberg was the first to invent a machine for printing, the printing press, in the 15th century. This involved more than just a press, it involved the production of movable metal type suitable for the machine process.

Initially, the machines were slow, and needed a printer to work with them. Fast and automatic machines did not arrive until the 19th century.

Paper and ink

Paper had been invented in the 8th century, but hand-made paper was expensive and in short supply. In the 19th century, automated or semi-automated making of paper from wood pulp was invented. Also, there was the invention of inks for various purposes, and machines driven by electricity.

The common cheap supply of paper fed the faster printing machines, and books became cheaper. Only then could ordinary people afford to buy books. Along with these inventions in the 19th century came the idea of public libraries, so poorer people could get access to the best books. Also, widespread free (or nearly free) education swelled the number of literate people.

Printing was done on large sheets of paper, which were then folded, guillotined (cut) and sewn in sections, and finally placed into the covers. All these processes became done by machines during the 19th century.

Today some of the technologies have been changed, especially those involving illustration and typography. However, books look much the same as they did, with more illustration in colour, but basically the same. That is because experience has shown that readers need certain things for pleasurable reading. Graphic design and typography are the practical arts used to make books attractive and useful to readers.

Digital printing

Recent developments in book manufacturing include the development of digital printing. Book pages are printed, in much the same way as an office copier works, using toner rather than ink. Each book is printed in one pass, not as separate signatures. Digital printing has permitted the manufacture of much smaller quantities than offset, in part because of the absence of make readies and of spoilage. One might think of a web press as printing quantities over 2000, quantities from 250 to 2000 being printed on sheet-fed presses, and digital presses doing quantities below 250. These numbers are of course only approximate and will vary from supplier to supplier, and from book to book depending on its characteristics. Digital printing has opened up the possibility of print-on-demand, where no books are printed until after an order is received from a customer.

In the 2000s, due to the rise in availability of affordable handheld computing devices, the opportunity to share texts through electronic means became a more appealing option for media publishers. Thus, the "e-book" was made. The term e-book is a contraction of "electronic book"; it refers to a book-length publication in digital form. An e-book is usually made available through the internet, but also on CD-ROM and other forms. E-Books may be read either via a computer or by means of a portable book display device known as an e-book reader, such as the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo eReader, or the Amazon Kindle. These devices attempt to mimic the experience of reading a print book.

Paper and conservation

Paper was first made in China as early as 200 BC, and reached Europe through Muslim territories. At first made of rags, the industrial revolution changed paper-making practices, allowing for paper to be made out of wood pulp. Papermaking in Europe began in the 11th century, although vellum was also common there as page material up until the beginning of the 16th century, vellum being the more expensive and durable option. Printers or publishers would often issue the same publication on both materials, to cater to more than one market.

Paper made from wood pulp became popular in the early 20th century, because it was cheaper than linen or abaca cloth-based papers. Pulp-based paper made books less expensive to the general public. This paved the way for huge leaps in the rate of literacy in industrialised nations, and enabled the spread of information during the Second Industrial Revolution.

Pulp paper, however, contains acid which eventually destroys the paper from within. Earlier techniques for making paper used limestone rollers, which neutralized the acid in the pulp. Books printed between 1850 and 1950 are primarily at risk; more recent books are often printed on acid-free or alkaline paper. Libraries today have to consider mass deacidification of their older collections in order to prevent decay.

Stability of the climate is critical to the long-term preservation of paper and book material. Good air circulation is important to keep fluctuation in climate stable. The HVAC system should be up to date and functioning efficiently. Light is detrimental to collections. Therefore, care should be given to the collections by implementing light control. General housekeeping issues can be addressed, including pest control. In addition to these helpful solutions, a library must also make an effort to be prepared if a disaster occurs, one that they cannot control. Time and effort should be given to create a concise and effective disaster plan to counteract any damage incurred through "acts of God" therefore an emergency management plan should be in place.

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Phyllis, or Phillis, Wheatley was the first black person to publish a book in America. She was also and one of the first women to publish a book in America.

Her work was read and liked. People such as George Washington liked her work. But her talent posed a problem for national leaders at the time. Why? Wheatley was enslaved when she published her book.

"Slaveowners and abolitionists both read her work, "the former to convince their slaves to convert, the latter as proof of slaves' intellectual abilities." That's according to the National Women's History Museum.

The life of Phyllis Wheatley is full of mystery. She was forcibly brought to Boston as a slave. She came on a ship. It was named the Phillis. That's according to according to Henry Louis Gates Jr. He is a historian.

"It's a fair guess that she would have been a native Wolof speaker from the Senegambian coast," he wrote.

She was described in the cargo list as "a slender frail, female child." The young girl was thought to be about seven. Susanna Wheatley bought her. She paid very little money. She named her after the ship she was brought to America on.

Susanna Wheatley and her husband John Wheatley had two children. They were twins. Their names were Nathaniel and Mary.

Mary began teaching the child slave to read," Gates writes. The reasons were never told. But she had her mother's avid support. She spoke and read English fluently. It only took her sixteen months after she'd arrived.

She also started learning Latin. Then she published her first poem. She was 13 or 14. And she continued writing.

"Wheatley's poems reflected several influences on her life. Among them were the well-known poets she studied. These included Alexander Pope and Thomas Gray." That's according to the museum.

"Pride in her African heritage was also evident. Her writing style embraced the elegy. It was likely from her African roots. From there, it was the role of girls to sing and perform funeral dirges. Religion was also a key influence. It led Protestants in America and England to enjoy her work."

Wheatley and her owner Susanna Wheatley looked for subscribers. She was about eighteen years old. It was for a collection of twenty-eight of her poems.

"The colonists were apparently unwilling to support literature by an African. So she and the Wheatleys turned in frustration to London for a publisher." That's according to the Poetry Foundation. She traveled to London. She went with Nathaniel Wheatley. They met dignitaries. And they had the book printed.

"Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" were read-and debated. This was true on both sides of the Atlantic. It was the first book on record published by an African-American.

The book included a portrait of Wheatley. It was in the front of the book. This was to underscore her race. It also included signatures. They were from a number of colonial leaders. They verified that she had written the poems in the book.

"With the publication of her book, Phillis Wheatley almost immediately, became the most famous African on the face of the earth. She was the Oprah Winfrey of her time," writes Gates.

The Wheatleys freed Phyllis. They did so three months before Susanna Wheatley died. This was in 1774. "Many British editorials castigated the Wheatleys for keeping Wheatley in slavery while presenting her to London as the African genius." This was after the book was published. That's according to the Poetry Foundation.

But "the family had provided an ambiguous haven for the poet. Wheatley was kept in a servant's place. It was a respectable arm's length from the Wheatleys' genteel circles. But she had experienced neither slavery's treacherous demands nor the harsh economic exclusions pervasive in a free-black existence."

This relationship was one of power. The Wheatleys owning and teaching a talented poet brought them a kind of prestige. But it did also give Phyllis Wheatley the power to speak out. In her letters with Washington she spoke out against slavery. This was also true of her letters to others.

Wheatley was a talented poet. She met with the poetic tastes of her time. But she was also a black woman at a time when black people had very little power in America. "She died in 1784 in abject poverty. Preceded in death by her three children. Surrounded by filth. And abandoned, apparently, by her husband, John Peters," Gates writes. She was like Benjamin Banneker. He was another well-known early African-American scholar. She used her voice to fight against slavery. And she fought for equality. But sadly, that voice only went so far.
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It's a photograph from the 1930s. There are two women. They have pin-curls. They are paused in the street. One is sporting a book case. It has the slanting spines of books. The other has a volume. It is in her gloved hands. Her head is bowed. She looks at the open pages.

The caption is from the VSV Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Archive. It notes that the photo depicts a walking library. It is in London. It is during the 1930s. Annie Koh writes on a Tumblr blog. She has more details from the photograph. A longer caption reads:

"Critics are always remarking that we in this country lag far behind those of European countries when it comes to borrowing books from libraries. This enterprising girl at Rumsgate solves the problem. Taking her books in a rack tied to her back round the streets. And from door to door. And people can borrow them for a week at the price of twopence."

Were walking libraries a thing? There is a rich history of people walking with books. And of book collections made for traveling.

Misha Myers and Deirdre Heddon are performers. They have an ongoing art project. It looks at the crossing of walking and books. It was inspired by historical stories. They write for the journal "Cultural Geographies." Poet John Keats walked to the Lake District in Scotland. This was in 1818. He was carrying Dante's Divine Comedy. And he had the works of John Milton. Conservationist John Muir took a thousand-mile walk. He carried "a copy of Robert Burns' poetry. Milton's Paradise Lost. William Wood's Botany. A small New Testament. A journal and a map."

But Myers and Heddon also wanted to ask what books add to a journey. And affect how the experience of it. They also want to know how the landscape and moving through it affects the experience of reading.

Carrying a full collection of books on a long trip would have been tiring. Four people or families were lucky. They had their own traveling library. This was in 17th-century England.

All it needed were small books. There were about 50. They were gold-tooled. They were vellum-bound books. They were all bundled up. They were put into a larger wooden case. It was bound in brown leather. It was meant to look like a book itself. These are held at the University of Leeds. They are in their special collections. This was a true traveling library. Four were made.

"These traveling libraries were intended to be carried about by noblemen in their travels," writes David Kirby. He wrote for the Michigan Quarterly Review. Scholars aren't sure who made the four traveling libraries. But they suspect William Hakewill. He was a lawyer. He was a bibliophile. And he was a legal historian. He lived from 1574 to 1655.

Who could afford such a treasure? Kings for one. The traveling libraries were attractive. Napoleon Bonaparte may have been tired of lugging his favorite books. He asked for his own traveling library. He got one. It was from M. Louis Barbier. He was in charge of the Louvre Library. That's according to an article. It was published in the Sacramento Daily Union. It was published on June 8, 1885. Austin Kleon is an author. He posted some of the paper. It was on his blog. It says that Napoleon asked that each tiny book in the library should "contain from five hundred to six hundred pages. And be bound in covers as flexible as possible. And with spring backs."

Furthermore:

"There should be forty works on religion. Forty dramatic works. Forty volumes of epic. And sixty of other poetry. One hundred novels. And sixty volumes of history. The remainder being historical memoirs of every period."

What about the less well-heeled? A different kind of traveling library soon became available. Schools are still visited by traveling booksellers. They are now called book fairs. Or they are called bookmobiles. These have their roots in traveling libraries. These are from more than a century ago. These roving book collections first moved on horse-drawn carts. Then they were on automobiles. Rural areas especially relied on the visiting collections. Some communities still have their own versions.

But there is another walking library. It is a metaphor. It is offered up by Kirby. It was in the Michigan Quarterly Review.

His essay was about electronic books. And what digital technology might mean for future readers. "An e-book reader that is reasonably priced and a pleasure to use will be the ultimate traveling library," he notes. He adds a warning. He says that Kindles and Nooks likely won't look like the future. That is any more than the Model T looks like today's cars. But e-book readers are like a library. At least in some ways. They are a personal one. Users can even lend a book to a friend for a time with e-readers.
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It's a photograph from the 1930s. There are two women. They have pin-curls. They are paused in the street. One is sporting a book case. It has the slanting spines of books. The other has a volume. It is in her gloved hands. Her head is bowed. She looks at the open pages.

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Paddington 2 is a much-loved film. It came out in 2017. The plot revolves around a one-of-a-kind book. It was a pop-up. The volume is for sale in the Notting Hill antique store. The store belongs to Mr. Gruber. He is a Hungarian refugee. Paddington is a good-souled, marmalade-loving bear. He is transported into a dreamlike world of a London cityscape. This happens after opening the covers to the movable parts within. All of it is folding and popping up like the intricate paper constructions of a pop-up book.

The film is based on the children's books of the late author Michael Bond. He published the first volume more than sixty years ago. It was called "A Bear Called Paddington." That was on October 13, 1958. There were 15 Paddington titles in all. There are also picture books. There are gift books. There is a cook book. And there is a guide to London.

The Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library is in New York City. It has ten Paddington titles. All of them are in the form of pop-up or sliding books.

Three-dimensional or movable books are animated works. They are created by "paper engineering." A pop-up has parts made from stiff card stock. They move when a page is turned. A sliding book is also known as a pull tab. It is known as a dissolving image mechanism. It has a Venetian-blind type of construction. It is animated by a small flap. It causes the image to transform into something different.

The dust-covered pop-up in the movie Paddington 2 is made up of beloved city landmarks. "And this is London." The moment conveys the absorption that a child can have in books and their illustrations and construction. In 2014, Bond reminisced about childhood.

"I think the most precious thing you can give a child is your time. And I think the next most precious thing you can give a child is an interest in books. If you're brought up with books being part of the furniture, with a story being read to you when you go to bed at night, it's a very good start in life. I never went to bed without a story when I was small."

The Cooper Hewitt Design Library collects movable and pop-up books. This is for the study of their illustrations. And for paper engineering as art. The Paddington Bear stories were all written by a single author. That was Michael Bond. But there have been a number of different illustrators over the years.

Paddington is found by the Browns in the first story. He has a note. It says, "Please look after this bear. Thank you." Bond has said he was inspired by child evacuees. They were leaving London on trains. This was during World War II.

"They all had a label round their neck with their name and address on and a little case or package containing all their treasured possessions," he said. "So Paddington, in a sense, was a refugee, and I do think that there's no sadder sight than refugees." Bond based Mr. Gruber on his literary agent. His name was Harvey Unna. He fled Nazi Germany.

The Cooper-Hewitt's Library's earliest edition of Paddington's Pop-Up Book is from 1977. It re-tells the story of the little bear. He arrives in London. He came from Peru. He has his battered suitcase. The book depicts Paddington Brown's past life. It shows his travels. His adventures. And his life in London. This usually involved a considerable amount of mischief. This collection of the Paddington bear movable and pop-up books was a gift. It was donated by Dr. Daniel J. Mason. Their preservation was supported by a grant. It was from the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

The popularity of movable and pop-up books continues to grow. Many have innovative pop-up construction forms. The latest is the 2017 Paddington Pop-Up London. It is sure to enchant another generation with movable books. That book's construction bears many similarities with Jennie Maizels' Pop-Up London of 2011. That title is not in the Libraries collections. But the Cooper-Hewitt does have three earlier examples of the artist's work. These include The Amazing Pop-Up Music Book. It includes The Amazing Pop-Up Grammar Book. And it includes The Amazing Pop-Up Multiplication Book.

In the film, the River Thames dominates in the Paddington pop-up book. This includes the ocean liner. It is coming in under Tower Bridge. It features the dockyards. It shows Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. This gives way to the view of the boat traffic on the river. The Smithsonian's Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology is in Washington, D.C. It has a remarkable collection of other movable novelty books. They portray the Thames Tunnel and the river in a similar way. These paper-engineered books were influential. They were widely distributed.

The Thames Tunnel was built between 1825 and 1843. It joined the south and north banks. It was originally meant for horse-drawn carriages. But this channel under the Thames became a pedestrian passage way. It had arcades for shopping. It had entertainment. It was constructed with years of arduous work and disasters. It was built by Marc Brunel and his son. His name was Isambard. They employed the engineers' innovative "tunneling shield" technology.

There was worldwide excitement for this technological marvel. It was the first tunnel built under a navigable river. It was a great subject for the increasingly popular "peepshow" publications. They are made up of a set of illustrated vignettes. Some are etched. Some are engraved. Other are lithographed. The illustrations are attached to accordion sides of a perspective box. When the construction is extended it creates three-dimensional views. These are observed through a hole in the cover. This form of printing art began in the 15th century. It was a means for scientists and artists to study optics and perspective. Peepshows found a more general audience by the 19th century. This came after inspiration from stage scenery.
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Celebrating the much-loved Paddington Bear

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Paddington 2 is a much-loved film. It came out in 2017. The plot revolves around a one-of-a-kind book. It was a pop-up. The volume is for sale in the Notting Hill antique store. The store belongs to Mr. Gruber. He is a Hungarian refugee. Paddington is a good-souled, marmalade-loving bear.

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Little Golden Books Edition

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Five things to know about Little Golden Books

Five things to know about Little Golden Books

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Millions of children have grown up reading Little Golden Books. They are a vibrantly colored children's series populated by cute creatures and intrepid locomotives. Each book is encased in a shiny, golden spine. This year, reports Lynn Neary for NPR, Little Golden Books will celebrate its 75th birthday. In honor of this milestone, here are five things to know about the iconic franchise:

It transformed the concept of a children's book.

Prior to the launch of Little Golden Books in 1942, children's books looked very different. As Mental Floss' Rob Lammie writes, kids' picture books often came in the form of hefty volumes. These were etched with ornate illustrations. They were sold exclusively in bookstores. They cost between $2 or $3. That was far more than most families could afford.

That all changed when Simon & Schuster partnered with Western Publishing. It is a Wisconsin-based publishing house. They planned to create a series of accessible, affordable children's books. The Little Golden Books were colorful and sturdy. And with a cost of just 25 cents a pop, the books were cheap. The publishers also made sure to stock the books in department stores, supermarkets, train stations and five-and-dimes. They were placed in plain sight of young readers. This tactic seemed to have worked.

Little Golden Books produced the top-selling children's book of the 20th century.

That book would be The Little Poky Puppy. It has sold almost 15 million copies since its publication as one of the original 12 Little Golden Books in 1942. That is according to Lammie. The charming tale of a dessert-loving dog wasn't the only Little Golden Books hit. Titles like The Saggy Baggy Elephant (1947) and Scuffy the Tugboat (1955) also sold millions of copies. The sales placed them among the 10 most popular children's books of the 20th century. In total, a whopping two billion Little Golden Books have been printed. That is according to Random House Kids. Or, as the site puts it, "enough to reach the moon."

Artists who fled Europe during World War II found a home at Little Golden Books.

The publishers of Little Golden Books sought out talented commercial illustrators who had escaped the ravages of WWII, Neary writes. Among these illustrators was Russian émigré Feodor Rojankovsky. He brought several Little Golden Books to life. One was Gaston and Josephine, a story about two pigs who run away from their homeland and start a new life in America.

Little Golden Books has taken steps to address its biases.

In the 1960s, the series was criticized for failing to depict any black children in a book about the Central Park Zoo, Jim Higgins reports for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The publishers initially bristled at the charges. But they eventually released a line of books that prominently featured black characters. Richard Scarry was a beloved children's artist who got his start at Little Golden Books. He revised his illustrations when feminists accused him of maintaining gender stereotypes. Reprints of his books now show female characters driving cars and male characters cooking in the kitchen.

Little Golden Books has featured a whole lot of characters.

Early Little Golden Books centered on either original characters or fairy tale creatures. But the series began including pop culture figures. As Lammie writes, just about every kid-friendly character has popped up in Little Golden Books stories. These include Annie Oakley, the Flintstones and Disney princesses (so many Disney princesses). Even Donny and Marie Osmond made an appearance. They were in a 1977 Little Golden Book. It was titled Donny and Marie: The Top Secret Project.

Seventy-five years on, Little Golden Books has gained a new publisher. It is Penguin Random House. But the franchise has kept its spirit. New stories feature characters loved by kids today. They include Blaze and the Monster Machines!, Elena of Avalor!, Kung Fu Panda! The classics are still printed too, allowing new generations of readers to revel in the adventures of The Poky Little Puppy and The Saggy Baggy Elephant.
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Five things to know about Little Golden Books

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Five things to know about Little Golden Books Five things to know about Little Golden Books Assign to Google Classroom Millions of children have grown up reading Little Golden Books. They are a vibrantly colored children's series populated by cute creatures and intrepid locomotives. Each book is encased in a shiny, golden spine.

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Starting in the late 19th century, there were advances in printing technology. These advances allowed images to be printed cheaply. They came in lively color. This made newspapers and book reader demand images. They wanted them to complement the words they were purchasing. Those two factors led to the rise of a so-called "Golden Age of Illustration." One of the leading figures of this age was an English artist. That artist was Arthur Rackham. He was born on September 19, 1867. He was born in the South London borough of Lewisham.

You might not know his name. But you'll know his illustrations. Rackham created many fantastical creatures and people. They decorated the pages of the children's books. The books were published in the early 20th century. Rachkam was unassuming in appearance and manner. He worked as a junior insurance clerk before starting part-time at the Lambeth School of Art. That's where he began to translate a youthful passion. That passion was for books. He turned his passion into vivid illustrations to accompany works of classic literature.

Rackham had an expressive, detailed style of art. It made pieces like his iconic drawings of scenes in Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales instantly recognizable. Maria Popova of Brain Pickings offers her thoughts on the other artists to tackle Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. She offers that none did more for the work than Rackham. His graphic designs for a 1907 printing influence the visual vocabulary of the story even today.
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Starting in the late 19th century, there were advances in printing technology. These advances allowed images to be printed cheaply. They came in lively color. This made newspapers and book reader demand images. They wanted them to complement the words they were purchasing. Those two factors led to the rise of a so-called "Golden Age of Illustration."

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Get Creative: Combine a few pop ups and make a pop up book!

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Do you like to make your own cards? Today I'm sharing how to make pop-up cards with kids. These are easy, fun, and once kids get the hang of it it's hard to stop making them.

Every now and then I'll find myself in Target's card aisle, lured in by my wide-eyed kids who ogle at the colorful greeting ideas. I love it too, but we're rarely suckered in when it's so easy, fun, and frankly more meaningful to make our own cards.

I know, making your own cards can takes heap-loaps of time, and the truth is that we don't always have it. On the other hand, creative projects like this have some big benefits: they give my kids something constructive to work on and offer them lots of time to think about the recipient of their card (building lots of gratitude and love along the way).

My five-year old was getting ready for a couple of birthday parties, and she worked diligently on these pop-up cards. They can be as complicated or simple as you like. Since making these cards, this has become her favorite card-making method, and most recently she made a princess card with a pop-up crown for a friend's dress-up party.

Card Stock or other heavy-weight paper

Colorful construction paper

White Glue

Scissors

Crayons

Envelope

CUT THE CARD STOCK FOR THE POP-UP CARD

Cut a piece of card stock to the desired size.

Next, fold the card stock in half. Cut two parallel slits on the folded side of the paper, about one inch apart and about one inch long. I'd encourage you to play around with the length of these cuts.

Next, fold the tab up and crease it.

Open up your card.

And then pop the paper toward the inside of the card.

INVITE YOUR CHILD TO CREATE A POP-UP CARD

Cut a piece of colorful construction paper, the same size or slightly bigger than the card stock. Glue the card stock to the construction paper. Be sure that you don't glue the "pop-up" section down.

Set up the blank pop-up card and a bucket of crayons as an invitation for your child to create.

MAKE THE POP-UP DESIGN FOR YOUR CARD

Ask your child to think of what he or she would like to pop off of the card. My five-year old made two cards: one had a space theme and the other had a garden theme. She decided that she wanted a rocket to pop off the space card and a flower to pop off the garden card. I helped her figure out how tall to make these objects.
Note: If the pop-up objects are too tall, they'll poke out of the card when it closes
Decorate the cards with crayons, markers, or colored pencils. When the card is done, glue the pop-up piece in place and let it dry for about an hour.

Check back tomorrow for a GIANT collection of open-ended and process-based cards that kids can make. Until then, here are a few more ideas to keep you busy...

FREE template for a pop-up paper giraffe and elephant

The Chocolate Muffin Tree shares the same technique shared here, with some additional ideas on what to add to the pop-up area: How to make a simple pop-up.

Similar to pop-up cards, try making a peek-a-boo card.

If you like handprint cards, this handprint card from Willowday is really unique.

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Do you like to make your own cards? Today I'm sharing how to make pop-up cards with kids. These are easy, fun, and once kids get the hang of it it's hard to stop making them. Every now and then I'll find myself in Target's card aisle, lured in by my wide-eyed kids who ogle at [...]

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FRESH PRINCESS | Storytime with Denene Millner

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Graphic Novel Edition

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For the first time ever, the John Newberry Medal has been given to a graphic novel, "New Kid" by Jerry Craft. So we're refreshing this celebration of the genre!
In my former life as a teacher, reading specialist and educational therapist with a master's degree in language and literacy (a fancy name for reading), I had one mission: to transform every student into a reader. That meant not only helping my students develop reading skills, but also turning them into lifelong readers.

I pursued this goal like I was Harry Potter searching for the horcruxes to destroy Voldemort. But some of my students still weren't meeting their potential as readers. What had I missed?

The answer arrived tucked under the arm of a third grader, whom I'll call Cameron. When free reading time rolled around, Cameron found a spot with his copy of "Bone" by Jeff Smith. Within days, everyone in my class wanted to read it. Kids who "hated reading" were reading "Bone" over Cameron's shoulder. I started buying graphic novels for my classroom library that weekend and, without fail, they attracted reluctant readers. Then I noticed they were attracting proficient readers, too. Parents wanted to know if they should let their children read graphic novels instead of "real" books.

The answer? Yes!

And the Newberry Medal committee agreed: For the first time ever, a graphic novel, " New Kid" by Jerry Craft, has taken the prestigious 2020 prize.

Parents still ask me the question. But now they ask because I'm the mom who writes young adult novels and my first graphic novel, " Teen Titans: Raven." My answer is still yes. Here are five reasons why:

Images are powerful. If you've ever watched a heartbreaking Humane Society commercial and found yourself on the verge of tears, you understand what I'm talking about. The art in graphic novels makes it easier for readers to relate to the characters and imagine how it would feel to be in a similar situation, which builds empathy. The unique format also provides a way to "expose injustice and examine complex social issues, much like young adult novels do," explains educational researcher J.B. Carter.

Most children and teens are capable of understanding and discussing reading material above their independent reading level. As parents, we see this in action when we read a picture book like "The Three Little Pigs" to a kindergartener or first grader. By the end of the story, most children can tell us what happened to the pigs and the wolf, even if they can only read a few of the words. "The combination of words and images in (comics and graphic novels) provide an opportunity for scaffolding for some readers and also a new modality that interests and attracts more capable readers," explains educational researcher G. Yang. "When kids read enjoyable, complex, and compelling stories, they are motivated to read more, so graphic novels can be great stepping stones to longer text works."

A child's reading proficiency is not an indicator of intelligence, yet struggling readers are often given easier books that tend to have less complicated or meaty plot lines. The result? Less skilled readers don't have a chance to flex their intellectual muscles and discuss complex issues, themes and characters. That's why Kyle Redford of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity refers to graphic novels as "the grand equalizers" because they "invite all levels of readers into reading conversations. Since everyone can read graphic novels, everyone can talk about them."
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Reading a graphic novel involves more than just making sense of the words on the page and looking at art that complements the words. The art actually tells part of the story. So the reader has to decode and comprehend the text, the images, and the relationship between the two, which requires critical thinking skills such as drawing conclusions and making inferences. But that is good news, according to educational researcher P.E. Griffith, because "processing text and images together leads to better recall and transfer of learning. With [graphic novels], students not only learn the material faster, they learn it better."

Studies show that graphic novels are a preferred format for both boys and girls, and for both struggling and skilled readers, which contradicts the myth that graphic novels are for primarily for boys and children who "aren't good readers." Educational researcher B. Edwards also discovered that middle school students who weren't interested in reading were more likely to read graphic novels, because they enjoyed the format and felt they could challenge themselves more.
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Blank Templates For Comics or Graphic Novels

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Blank Comic Book Template

Free Printable Blank Comic Book Template. Free Printable Blank Comic Book Template in PDF format. If your kids love to make their own cartoons, this blank comic book pages can help them develop their creativity and imagination. You can share the comic book templates at school or home to keep kids busy for hours. You can select from the 5 blank template designs to give kids more options for the comics. Save money by printing all the comic book templates you need free. 1 Blank Comic Book Template per page without speech bubbles. Download and print the Blank Comic Book Template free in PDF format.

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How to create comic strips in Google Slides

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Make the Easiest Book Ever with David Martin

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This bright young woman made a huge impact on me as I listened to her on Inauguration Day! I believe she has two books coming out this fall.

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One of my favorite authors... Ok, I have a lot of favorites. His books are so hard to put down.

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My Daddyv Doesn't Need A Cape written by: Sheryl Smiley-Oliphant

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My Daddy Doesn’t Need A Cape Read Aloud by author Sheryl Smiley-Oliphant

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Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr? Read by Lisbeth Kaiser the author.

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Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? Read Aloud with Author Lisbeth Kaiser | Brightly Storytime Together

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I Am Peace written by Susan Verde and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds

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I Am Peace written by Susan Verde and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds

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Vice President Kamala Harris reading aloud her book Superheroes Are Everywhere

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Madam Vice President!!!!

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Be You Read by the author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds

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Read aloud by the author.

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