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Not everything gets lost in translation: The 2018 Man Booker International Prize Winner is FLIGHTS by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft. The £50,000 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, has been divided equally between the author and translator.Source: Announcing the 2018 Man Booker International Prize Winner

Ready for summer? To feel the sand between your toes? How about sand between the pages? These beachy summer picture books will start your vacation early. Nothing says summer like an outing to the beach. Sun-kissed hours spent swimming and splashing in the surf, exploring tidepools, picnicking or napping under an umbrella, hunting for shells, and, ofSource: 6 Picture Books:

A great interview about the very fun Dueling Illustrators contest at Bologna each year, as well as the manuscript contest it launched. Source: Cynsations: Guest Interview: Editor Emma Ledbetter & Writer Zoë Armstrong on Picture Books & SCBWI's Bologna Manuscript Contest

Looking forward to reading this when it comes out. It's a rare chance for kids to get to tell their stories in in their own voices. Crown Books for Young Readers will publish an anthology by and about students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.Source: Random House Children’s to Publish Book by Parkland Students

Richard Peck was one of the first writers I met when I joined the YA community in 1996. We spoke many times over the next couple of decades, and he was always as he was the first time we met--gracious, kind, witty, and welcoming. To say he will be missed is an understatement. If you never knew him as a

Who says teens don't read? This article shows us once again that if you bring books, readers will show up. “We don’t have a library.”I was in a meeting with Karen Powell, principal of Montbello Career and Technical High School in Denver, CO. I had just told her about my new district-wide Diverse Books Source: Starting with a Pop-Up, a