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On the Shelf
By
Sadie Stein
June 8, 2011
Arts & Culture
A cultural news bulletin.
Gruffalo
author Julia Donaldson has been named the UK’s
seventh Children’s Laureate
. Says she, “I’m hoping to bring some drama and music to the job. I always act out my own stories with lots of audience participation so I’m planning to do lots more of that.”
Jennifer Worth
, author of the
Call the Midwife
trilogy, has died at age seventy-five.
Meghan Cox Gurdon’s contention in the
Wall Street Journal
that
YA fiction is too dark and depraved
has prompted
debate and backlash
—including a “
#YASaves
” hashtag on Twitter.
A new iPad app allows readers to see more than six hundred of the
British Library’s nineteenth-century texts
in their original editions—including maps and illustrations. More than a thousand images can be viewed for free, until the paid app launches fully this summer.
Harry Bernstein
, whose memoir,
The Invisible Wall
, brought him fame at ninety-six, has died at 101.
Can you pass the
Naipaul Test
?
Compose a Twitter haiku in honor of
Koko the signing gorilla’s fortieth
.
And taking the “beach read” to a literal extreme, a list of selected
pirate fiction.
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