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Be sure to check out Paula Chase-Hyman’s interview in The Examiner about why YA is the new hotness. From the article: Reason #5. YA novels enable their young readers to process problems and situations from a safe distance. They show how someone the reader’s age would deal with problems that are typical for that reader’s [ Read the full article… ]

Do you blog about children’s and young adult books? Are you interested in blogging about children’s and YA books? Maybe you should attend the 3rd Annual KidLitosphere Conference. From the website: The Kidlitosphere Conference is an annual gathering of the Society of Bloggers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. The 2009 conference will take place [ Read the full article… ]

Lee & Low Books, an award-winning publisher of quality multicultural books for children, is looking for skilled artists of color who can bring picture book stories to life with originality and authenticity. Their books feature children/people of color and fall within a range of genres including contemporary and historical fiction, biography, poetry, nonfiction, and more. [ Read the full article… ]

What do your teen readers think was the best YA in 2009? YALSA wants to know. Send your teen voters over to YALSA and let’s make sure some brown books are represented.

Check out the trailer for Kelly Starling Lyons, One Million Men and Me. Kelly also has some fun printable pages for the kiddies on her blog. Share it with a young reader, today. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOAvCe8vjMA&hl=en&fs=1&]

For those who have followed the Liar cover controversy, Bloomsbury has created a new cover, with this statement to PW: “We regret that our original creative direction for Liar—which was intended to symbolically reflect the narrator’s complex psychological makeup—has been interpreted by some as a calculated decision to mask the character’s ethnicity.” It’s a start. [ Read the full article… ]

The Library of Congress is looking for the next National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Here are the criteria: *Author or illustrator of fiction or nonfiction books * U.S. citizen, living in the U.S. * Excellent and facile communicator * Dynamic and engaging personality * Known ability to relate to children; communicates well and regularly [ Read the full article… ]

First, let me say, as a teen I would have totally picked up a book called The Lip Gloss Chronicles. Because for reasons unknown to mankind, some girls are mesmerized by lip gloss. I was am one of them. My five-year-old has a terrible addiction to it, already. Whether it’s in the chapstick tube form [ Read the full article… ]