2017 National Book Award Finalists revealed

Article by Colin Dwyer October, 2017 It began with more than 1,500 books. With all the works submitted by publishers, the judges for this year’s National Book Awards have had their hands (and bookshelves) full the past few months. But that daunting number of contenders winnowed further Wednesday, as the National Book Foundation announced the […]

Returning Nature’s Words To Children’s Books

The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris review Article by Katharine Norbury 2 October 2017 In 2007, the new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary introduced new words such as “broadband” while others, describing the natural world, disappeared. The dictionary’s guidelines require that it reflect “the current frequency of words in daily language of children”. However, […]