I’m intrigued. So, he’s really popular in comics, then? Where do I start? Well, “popular” may not be the right word. He’s a mainstay of Marvel comics, but while he’s had various series over the years, he’s never had the success of, say, Spider-man or The X-men. He started out in back-ups in Strange Tales, and then graduated to his own title. But he’s been cancelled and relaunched several times, sometimes sharing a book with other characters....

Thank you for sharing your talent with generations of young readers. pic.twitter.com/wuMe4eqVXo — eric carle (@ericcarle) May 26, 2021 A poem is included on the website of the family of Bobbie and Eric Carle: In the light of the moon,holding on to a good star,a painter of rainbowsis now traveling across the night sky. Of the more than 70 books Carle illustrated, his most recognized work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, published in 1969, has been translated into 66 languages and sold over 50 million copies....

The list below is meant to be a jumping off point. It’s meant to encourage life-long learning, interest in areas within and beyond one’s preferred major studies, and develop a love of reading for information, as well as for pleasure. They should spark conversation and provide a means of thinking about a variety of social and cultural realities and challenges through new or sharper lenses. I’ve organized these books for college bound students in the same style as the list above: by the Liberal Arts topics they might best fit under....

Here’s a list of some of my favorite of this recent trend, featuring current and historic feminist icons in locales as varied as space, Rome, and the inner sanctum of the U.S. Supreme Court. I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley I think most of us know about RBG, so it’s a safe bet to start with I Dissent on our tour of women’s biographical picture books....

Stephen King has hailed Meg Gardiner as “the next suspense superstar,” and he had this to say about her new crime thriller The Dark Corners of the Night: “Don’t miss it. This is a great one.” FBI Profiler Caitlin Hendrix is desperately trying to stop a series of home invasions and murders in Los Angeles, in which entire families are targeted, the parents brutally killed and the children left alive as witnesses to the horror....

The Nothing Man — the new thriller from Edgar Award nominee Catherine Ryan Howard. On Sale 8/4/20. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man—the true-crime memoir Eve Black has written about her efforts to track down her family’s killer. As he turns each page, his rage grows. Because Jim’s not just interested in reading about the Nothing Man. He is the Nothing Man. And he realizes just how dangerously close Eve is to figuring out the truth....

For fans of Anna and the French Kiss and Loveboat Taipei, this effervescent debut takes readers on a journey to the place where trends are born—Seoul, Korea—where Melody Lee unwillingly moves with her family and must start a new life, a new school…and maybe a new romance. Note: I enjoy this trend and would love to see iterations of it featuring more characters of color. Want more 3 on a YA Theme?...

First Impressions: I had to watch the 1974 Gatsby in high school. I say had to because the only thing I remember from that experience is being BORED OUT OF MY EVER LOVING MIND. On rewatching it, I can kind of appreciate how Jack Clayton (director) and Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay) were trying to make the book “cinematic” in a 1970s sort of way. It might have actually been a good movie if it weren’t for a few problems that I’ll get to in a bit....

Twitter Handle: @msmacb There is one type of book I will read almost regardless of how good the book actually sounds: boarding school books. I’m not sure where my fascination with boarding schools stems from*–-I most certainly would have been kicked out of any boarding school that I dared to attend. Fortunately for me, there’s plenty of excellent literature available to let me live out my boarding school fantasies without having actually attended....

I’ve recently also started to enjoy being read to. My audiobook intake has increased drastically as a result. And scary storytelling abounds in the world of podcasting so it is easy to find one, or more, of those if you too would rather have someone read to you. Below is a list of horror related podcasts to help find your next spooky read or listen. I tried to separate these based on their primary subject, but there will be a few overlaps, more noticeably between Stories and True Life....

“A brilliant book for the ages!” —Douglas Brinkley. Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by two French women, Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute “paper bullets”—wicked insults against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive fictional dialogues designed to demoralize Nazi troops. Better remembered today by their artist names, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, the couple’s actions were even more courageous because they were lesbian partners known for cross-dressing and creating gender-bending work....

In this stunningly illustrated book about making a new friend and moving into a new home, two-time Caldecott-honor winning illustrator Pamela Zagarenski and New York Times bestselling author Randall de Sève create a dazzling world that celebrates both the power of imagination and the bravery it can inspire. We have 10 copies of Zola’s Elephant by Randall de Save and Pamela Zagarenski to give away to 10 Riot readers! Just complete the form below to enter....

But as a reader of both nonfiction and of books in translation, I’m always on the hunt for where these areas overlap. Give me more memoirs, essays, travel books, nature books, and all kinds of nonfiction from around the world, please! We need to hear from writers everywhere who work in all different kinds of forms and modes. The books below include memoir, essay, nature, and science writing. They touch on topics as varied as #MeToo, climate change, and state violence....

I hadn’t read this book since I was in the 6th grade, a year that I checked it out of the school library about once a month. As an adult, every time I saw this book, I told myself the following: I don’t have time to read this, I should be reading grown-up books, there is no way that Harriet will be as good as I remember, I don’t like how she called her teacher’s apartment a “rat-trap,” I want a tomato sandwich....

I found that the fact that everyone could attend the ceremony, while living under the ever-present shadow of a virus that keeps us all apart, added an extra layer of specialness to the awards this year. I’ve never felt more proud or lucky to be a part of this community. Before the book awards were given out, Walter Mosley was recognized with the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and Carolyn Reidy was posthumously honored with the Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community....

Hi there historical fiction fans! As the saying goes, fact is often stranger than fiction. And if ever there was proof of that, the genre of historical fiction imagining the gaps in historical true crime cases has to be it. As a big scaredy cat myself, I don’t read much actual true crime (serial killers, ahh, no thank you!). That said, historical crime fiction can be equally–if not more–fascinating since forensics and crime scene investigation techniques were such that much more was left to chance and guesswork....

Books have made me brave. Today proves it. The restaurant is warmer than the brisk windiness outside, the exposed lightbulbs overhead leaving the atmosphere relaxed and dimly lit. My hands are sweating and I wipe them across my jeans. I can’t help but hope that the lighting makes it hard to tell that I am blushing nervously because there, sitting across from me, is one of my favorite authors: Katherine Reay....

When self-publishing, most authors do all the work on their own, not realizing that publishing is a collaborative effort. There’s a reason why in traditional publishing, there are art directors, illustrators, layout artists, editors, proofreaders, publicists, and other professionals involved. A book project passes through many hands within a publishing house. At the first stages of publishing alone, the manuscript is vetted by a third party, like a literary agent, editor, or a beta reader who might catch problematic content....

One fateful year, I made the disastrous decision to set my cap, for real and for sure, at one of my best friends. Let’s call this fellow Daniel, which is not his name, just to be clear. We’d been close for a dozen years, and every time he left a relationship, we would dissect it for hours while he told me that things would have been better if only she were more like me....

Bedbugs? Really? Bedbugs in public libraries are extraordinarily common. You may even have personal experience with them and not know it. According to entomologist Kenneth Haynes of the University of Kentucky, 30% of people don’t react to bed bug bites. That means that people are tracking bedbugs with them into schools, onto buses and trains, and—yes—into public libraries, all unawares. Pesticide use has accelerated bedbug evolution. In case you’re not familiar with the concept, pesticides tend to kill only the weakest 90% of bedbugs....