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If you love comic books, here's an event you don't want to miss! Electric City Comic Con | Children's Book Council Could be loads of fun...check it out!

Here are the winners!: Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year Eva and Sadie and the Worst Haircut EVER! by Jeff Cohen Illustrated by: Elanna Allen Ages 4-8 Meet Eva and Sadie, two sisters with big personalities! When . . . more Duck, Duck, Moose! by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen Illustrated by: Noah Z. Jones Ages 3-5 Duck and Duck are preparing for a party, and each . . . more Frances Dean Who Loved to Dance and Dance by Birgitta Sif Illustrated by: Birgitta Sif Ages 4-8 ...

Are you excited? Read on for more...... Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams, has revealed the new cover for the 10th installment of Kinney’s Wimpy Kid series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School . During a live webcast with more than 500,000 worldwide viewers, Kinney showed the new cover for the book, which releases November 3 in a worldwide on-sale date across 16 countries. The book follows protagonist Greg Heffley on a week long field trip to a farm, where he navigates the age gap between the kids and their chaperones. For Kinney, the bold black cover takes the series in a different direction: “For the 10th book, I wanted to bring things back to basics, and nothing says ‘Old School’ for a cartoonist more than black, the color of ink,” he said in a release. To support the global release event, which Abrams hopes will make this “the biggest book and book event of the year, not just in North America but around the world,” said Michael Jacobs, president and CEO of Abrams, Kin...

DATE:  Mar 14, 2015 - Jun 07, 2015  LOCATION:  Amherst, MA The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will present  ‘Tall Tales and Short Tales: The Art of Uri Shulevitz,’  a retrospective of the Caldecott award-winning artist’s work. In celebration of Shulevitz’s 80th birthday, the exhibit will feature approximately 90 works, including original images from his 1969 book  Fool of the World and the Flying Ship , for which he won the Caldecott Medal. Shulevitz was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1935. He was only four years old when WWII drove his Jewish family into an eight-year exile, traveling through Europe before arriving in Paris in 1947. Even throughout the trials of wartime, Shulevitz continued to explore his artistic passion. His family later settled in Israel, where – at just fifteen years old – Shulevitz had his art displayed at the Tel Aviv Museum. He then moved to New York City, where he studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and began work as...

Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland June 26 through October 11, 2015 This exhibition will bring to light the curious history of Wonderland, presenting an engaging account of the genesis, publication, and enduring appeal of Lewis Carroll's classic tale,  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . For the first time in three decades, the original manuscript will travel from the British Library in London to New York, where it will be joined by original drawings and letters, rare editions, vintage photographs, and fascinating objects—many never before exhibited. The enchanting tale of Wonderland was first told “one golden afternoon” to Alice Liddell and her two sisters. Delighted by the fantastic world of logic and nonsense inhabited by rabbits in waistcoats and playing card gardeners, Alice begged for a written copy of her namesake's adventures under ground. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll) painstakingly wrote out the story...

How exciting! Read on... Random House Children’s Books has increased its first printing on   What Pet Should I Get? , a new picture book by the late Dr. Seuss, from 500,000 to 1 million. The book, which goes on sale July 28, was  first announced in February , after the unpublished manuscript was rediscovered by Seuss's (given name, Ted Geisel), widow, Audrey Geisel, and his longtime secretary and friend, Claudia Prescott, in fall 2013. To read more about this click the link below: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/66334-rhcb-ups-first-print-run-on-new-seuss-to-1-million.html As soon as it is available, we will have it for you here in the library!

Fancy Nancy fans, rejoice! The beloved children's book series is going to be adapted into a television show. Variety reported on March 27 that Disney Junior acquired the rights to create "an animated telepic and series adaptation" of Fancy Nancy -- with plans to premiere in 2017. Written by Jane O’Connor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser, the Fancy Nancy books detail the adventures of a spunky little girl who loves to learn "fancy" new words and wear "fancy" clothes, like tutus, boas, and fairy wings. The series celebrates individuality and creative expression, all while helping young readers develop broader vocabularies. -Huffington Post 3/30/15 by Caroline Bologna