- 2025 Jun 25
Vermont Bookstore Is On the Move
The Burlington location of Phoenix Books is moving to a new location on Church Street, the city's main shopping thoroughfare.
- 2024 Nov 27
Queer Bookstore in Utah Crowdfunds
Mosaics Community Bookstore & Venue in Provo has launched an Indiegogo campaign to stay open after a tumultuous year.
Dos Passos Prize Finalists
Angie Cruz and Victor Lavalle are among the five finalists for the 2024 John Dos Passos Prize, awarded by Longwood University.
Utah LGBTQ+ Store Fights to Survive
Mosaics bookstore in Provo, home to the United Drag Alliance, has endured numerous threats and is raising $200,000 on Indiegogo to "stay open and operational."
Wisconsin's Newest Store Opens Saturday
Epilogue Books, a new store in Menomonee Falls, opens this Saturday, offering new and used books.
New Michigan Store Promises More Love
Pages and Grapes, a romance store in Wyoming, is celebrating its grand opening this Saturday.
Rhode Island Welcomes a New Store
Book Around, a used bookstore and writing community space, has opened in Pawtucket.
- 2024 Nov 26
A Big Win for Kate Beaton
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands has won this year’s Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, a Swiss prize for exceptional works of fiction or nonfiction published in any language.
RIP Ryan McCardle
The Fantagraphics book designer died this month from a rare form of bone cancer.
A High Price for Indie Comics
Can indie comics publishers survive rising prices? As single issues jump from $3.99 to $4.99, smaller publishers are having to get creative with their offerings, reports A.V. Club.
Comics X-odus
The denizens of what was once called Comics Twitter are headed to Bluesky, per the Beat.
Anime NYC Adds a Day
The three-day anime and manga festival will add a fourth day next year, per the Beat.
The Expanse of Production
The team behind the TV adaptation of James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series is launching a multi-platform content company with a major development deal at Amazon MGM Studios.
Comics Against Hate
We Are Brooklyn, a project of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, collects comics by nonprofit professionals celebrating the borough’s diversity, per the JTA.
Burns’s Turn
The New York Times unpacks how Charles Burns reinvented the romance comic.
Black Mirror on the Page
Some of the show’s most memorable storylines will be retold in comics form next year, per Deadline.
Comics Vet Takes on a Sci-Fi Classic
Warner Bros will mount a new version of Forbidden Planet, to be written by Brian K. Vaughan, reports Deadline.
A New History of DC Films
Crown Publishing will publish a new book by Tatiana Siegel, Variety’s executive editor of film and media, on the history of the DC film franchise, per Variety.
Green Lantern’s Light
A statue of DC’s John Stewart has been erected in Burbank, Calif.
- 2024 Nov 25
From the Guardian
Furor sparked by Jamie Oliver children's book cultural appropriation engulfs more writers in U.K.
From the New York Times
Reading, with Extra Cheese: Remembering Pizza Hut's 'Book It!'
From NPR
Check out NPR's Best Books of 2024, including the editors' children's and YA selections.
From Book Riot
The Most Polarizing Children's Books Ever Published.
From NPR
In a Still Life painting nothing moves—but, wait! Was that a dragon?
From the New York Times
10 Picture Books That Help Kids (and Adults) Celebrate Gratitude.
From Strategist
Best Books to Gift to Little Kids 2024.
From Brightly
2024's Best Audiobooks for Kids and Teens.
Black-Owned L.A. Bookshop to Close
The Salt Eaters Bookshop in Inglewood has announced that it will close its storefront on December 14 and go virtual in 2025.
CALIBA's Golden Poppy Award Finalists
Percival Everett, Yulin Kuang, and Chuck Tingle are among the finalists in 14 categories for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance's 2024 Golden Poppy Book Awards.
Bridge Book Award Winners
Aaron Hamburger and Millicent Marcus are among the winners of this year’s Bridge Book Awards for Italian and American fiction and nonfiction.
Boston Poet Opens Bookstore
JustBook-ish, a bookstore cofounded by Boston poet laureate Porsha Olayiwola, has opened in Fields Corner.
Maryland Bookstores to Merge
A Likely Story Bookstore of Sykesville will merge with Park Books of Severna Park.
Illinois to Welcome a New Bookstore
Dandelion Bookshop will open in Oak Park next month.
- 2024 Nov 22
Brinkey Wins Maya Angelou Award
‘Witness’ by Jamel Brinkley is the winner of this year’s Maya Angelou Book Award, presented by the Kansas City Public Library in conjunction with a group of Missouri universities.
North Carolina Store to Shutter
After 30 years of operation, Quarter Moon Books & Gifts in Topsail Beach has announced that it will close its doors on December 28.
- 2024 Nov 20
From Deadline
Maddie Ziegler and Levi Miller to Star in Shiver Based on Maggie Stiefvater Bestseller.
From LateNighter.com
How Late-Night Stars Took Over the Children's Book Market.
From Reactor
Return to Cabeswater: Announcing the Graphic Novel of Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys.
From Literary Hub
In Search of the Moomins in Helsinki: The Enduring Magic of Tove Jansson's Characters.
From Vogue
Tove Jansson, Beloved Creator of the Moomins, Painted the World as She Wanted to See It.
From Mspmag.com
Children's author Eliza Wheeler's new project A Cozy Winter Day explores how to stay cozy in the cold.
From BuzzFeed
These 25 Classic Childhood Books Will Make You Yearn for Those Scholastic Book Fair Days.
From Book Riot
The Best Chapter Book Series for Kids Who Love Adventures.
Niland Wins William Hill Award
Conor Niland has won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for 'The Racket,' becoming the second Irish winner since Paul Kimmage won for 'Rough Ride' in 1990.
Flanagan Wins Baillie Gifford Prize
Richard Flanagan has won the U.K.'s Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction for his memoir 'Question 7,' but turned down the £50,000 prize over Baillie Gifford’s investments in fossil fuels.
- 2024 Nov 19
BookLife Prize Fiction Finalists
Sarah D'Stair and N.D. Jones are among the finalists chosen for the 2024 BookLife Prize for Fiction. The winner will be announced in December.
'The Book of All Lives' Wins Cercador
This year's Cercador Prize, a bookseller-helmed award for literature in translation, goes to the genre-bending book by Spanish writer Agustín Fernández Mallo, translated by Thomas Busntead.
- 2024 Nov 18
From Forbes
The pervasive literacy crisis among school-age children.
From the Tennessean
Tennessee public school district removes 425 book titles to comply with state law on sex, violence.
From AL.com
In deep red Alabama, libraries gain trust of parents seeking all-access cards for children.
From The Nightly
How Jamie Oliver's First Nations storyline in children's novel Billy and the Epic Escape came unstuck.
From the New York Times
Alice in Moominland: Tove Jansson's illustrations for a rare 1966 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are melancholy, complex, and occasionally scary.
From Oprah Daily
The Best Kids' Books on Race and Racism.
From Scary Mommy
Parents Share the Worst Children's Books They've Ever Read.
Brooklyn Children’s Comics Shop to Close
Greenpoint’s Hey Kids Comics! is shuttering its storefront at the end of the year after three years in business.
2024 LPC Award for Exemplary Service
The international Library Publishing Coalition has awarded Corinne Guimont, Virginia Tech’s associate director of publishing and digital scholarship for university libraries, the coalition's 2024 Award for Exemplary Service.
Virginia Gets a Romance Bookstore
Friends to Lovers is opening in Old Town Alexandria on November 14.
- 2024 Nov 15
Wright Wins Melbourne Prize
Alexis Wright has been awarded the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature for her novel 'Praiseworthy,' capping off an award season run that saw her win more than $200,000 in prize money.
B&N Opening in Utah
A new Barnes and Noble will open in Park City on November 20 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring author Jack Carr.
New Indie Heads to Pennsylvania
The Print Factory, which describes itself as an “antiracist, feminist, and queer-inclusive organization that supports the artistic and intellectual life of the local community,” is opening this weekend in Bellefonte.
- 2024 Nov 14
Community Bookstore Heads to Detroit
Twenty-six-year-old Detroiter Jerjuan Howard plans to open the Howard Family Bookstore in a long-abandoned building on the city's west side. The space will sell books and coffee, as well as host poetry nights and comic book workshops.
Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize Finalists
The Pitt Poetry Series at the University of Pittsburgh Press has announced the five finalists for the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
- 2024 Nov 13
From WUSF
Florida's Education Dept. releases a list of over 700 books removed in K–12 schools.
From Electric Literature
A Year of Giving Away Banned Books in Florida.
From the New York Times
How The Wild Robot Was Born in a Weedy Patch of Manhattan.
From the Atlantic
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she's cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read.
Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
Chelsea Bieker, Percival Everett, Xochitl Gonzalez, and Tommy Orange are among the 14 authors longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, which comes with a $35,000 purse.
From Literary Hub
"She Is Not Me": What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself.
From BBC News
Giant Elf on the Shelf to hide out across Liverpool.
From the New York Times
I Gave My Son the Books I Loved. He Chose Heidi Instead.
From Kveller
The Small But Mighty Power of Jewish Board Books.
From Edutopia
10 Picture Books About Cooking That Promote Patience.
Georgia Welcomes a New Bookstore
Columbus Bound Bookshop in Columbus is holding a grand opening this Saturday.
Apply for SIBA's Bookseller Writer Grant
Applications are open for SIBA's 2025 McCoy Grant for Bookseller Writers, which gives two $1,500 grants to unpublished women and nonbinary booksellers.
Maryland Store Opens With a Purpose
Volunteer-run bookstore The Novel Refuge in Laurel aims to help raise money for refugee resettlement organizations.
- 2024 Nov 12
Black-Owned Store Shutters After Threats
Blacklit in Farmers Branch, Tex., has closed its doors due to consistent intrusions from a man who has been "purposely intimidating our employees, our guests," said owner Nia-Tayler Clark.
Sze Wins Bobbitt Poetry Prize
The Library of Congress will award the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry to National Book Award winner Arthur Sze on December 4. The biennial prize comes with a $10,000 purse.
Upstate New York Gets a New Indie
The Common Good opened last month in Ellenville, situated at the base of the Catskill Mountains.
Vellekoop Wins Toronto Book Award
Maurice Vellekoop has won the 2024 Toronto Book Award for 'I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together,' the first graphic novel to win the prize.
RIP Kazuo Umezu
The acclaimed creator, often called the godfather of Japanese horror manga, has died at 88, reports Screen Rant.
RIP Greg Hildebrandt
The celebrated artist and illustrator, who created iconic imagery for such franchises as Lord of the Rings and Star Wars with his twin brother, Tim, has died at 85, reports Comicbook.
DC Expands Its Compact Comics Line
The comics giant will expand its backlist line, republishing “bestselling, new-reader-friendly titles” in a full-color, 5.5” x 8.5” trim size priced at $9.99, next year, adding 15 more titles.
Turtles in a Double Shell
IDW Publishing will release the first collected volume of Jason Aaron’s run on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and The Last Ronin II, penned by Turtles cocreator Kevin Eastman, next summer.
IDW Doubles Down on Patrick Horvath
The Eisner Award–nominated debut graphic novel Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees will receive a second printing of 15,000 after selling through its first printing of 20,000 copies. A sequel is forthcoming from IDW’s new horror imprint, IDW Dark.
Will a Graphic Musk Bio Hit the U.S.?
The author of a French biography of Elon Musk told Patreon subscribers he expects no English-language translation, per Comic Book Club: “I’m told that there was interest from various international publishers at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair, but there was concern over possible legal consequences.”
The Silent Art of Geoff Darrow
What happens when you take the words out of a comic? Darrow’s latest does just that. The Comics Journal takes a look.
A Perfect Comic and an Imperfect Film
The Beat looks at the recent adaptation of Richard McGuire’s graphic novel Here by the team behind Forrest Gump.
- 2024 Nov 11
From the Guardian
Jamie Oliver pulls children's book from shelves after criticism for 'stereotyping' Indigenous Australians.
From the Sydney Morning Herald
'Significant oversight': Where Jamie Oliver's children's book went wrong.
From Elle
Skyshade, the third book in Alex Aster's bestselling Lightlark saga, hits shelves this month. But she reveals she's not yet finished with the series.
From School Library Journal
The Family Business: Kid Lit Duos.
From the New York Times
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Review: How It Got So Great.
From the Washington Post
Strega Nona is the heroine we need right now.
From the New York Times
Take the Quiz: Do You Know These World-Famous Children's Books?
Fresno Gets a New Bookstore
Judging by the Cover opened in the central California city's Chinatown neighborhood on November 1, spotlighting banned and multilingual books.
Arab American Book Award Winners
Anna Lekas Miller, Deena Mohamed, and Hannah Moushabeck are among the winners of this year's Arab American Book Awards.
Shatz Wins ALP Book Prize
‘The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon’ by Adam Shatz is the winner of the 12th annual American Library in Paris Book Award.
- 2024 Nov 08
Loudon Wins Sharjah Book Prize
‘A Stranger in Baghdad’ by Elizabeth Loudon is the winner of the 2024 International Fiction Book Award, presented by the Sharjah International Book Fair.
- 2024 Nov 06
From School Library Journal
A Deep Dive into the Power of Rhymes.
From the New York Times
What Makes a Great Search-and-Find Picture Book.
