Interactive books can enhance child's learning

Interactive books can enhance child's learning experience
USA Today
By Jinny Gudmundsen, Gannett All parents know that reading books aloud is a fun and exciting way to introduce young children to the world. By starting to read to kids at an early age, parents help them build their vocabularies and start them on the ...
Author upsets schools over missing books
Stuff.co.nz
MESS UP: Author Ken Catran, who some schools say has failed to deliver books they ordered, says he has not tried to defraud anyone. An award-winning author has angered schools nationwide by failing to deliver books they have paid for. ...
Book Festival to Feature Young Adult Authors
Patch.com
3, at 4 pm Authors Jonathan Maberry (Rot & Ruin) and Jeff Hirsch (The Eleventh Plague) will put their heads together to offer zombie protection advice. Though paranormal, sci-fi, and fantasy booksare selling strong, books with real voices about real ...
New Economics Rewrite Book Business
Wall Street Journal
"Low seven-figure advances have become six-figures, while six-figures have become five," says apublishing executive, adding that print runs are down as much as 25% compared with a year earlier, depending on the type of book. ...
Uganda: Books They Read - Lauri Kubuitsile, Author
AllAfrica.com
What made you fall in love with books? I had a problematic childhood and books were where I found refuge. Because of my love for books, I was always fascinated by authors. One of the first letters I ever wrote was to an author of one of the books I had ...
'Wimpy Kid,' 'Steve Jobs' among new fall books
Florida Today
Some publishers say ebooks are now 20 percent of overall sales or higher, more than double from 2010. Even JK Rowling has gone digital, and will soon offer e-editions of the "Harry Potter" booksthrough her Pottermore website. But the season's biggest ...
Snapshot: San Rafael woman turns Jeff Bridges' pictures into photo books
Marin Independent-Journal
By Paul Liberatore FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS, Joanne Bolton's San Rafael company, Bolton Associates, has been producing coffee table photography and art books for a host of customers. For most of that time, her star client has been an actual movie star, ...
Look past obvious selections this year
Worcester Telegram
•Despite its sexy name (and, hey, books are sexy too!), www.bookslut.com contains voluminous material on books and authors, making it well worth viewing. It also has links to current reviews and articles by or about authors...
CAPL to host Library on the Go computer classes
The State Journal-Register
Electronic devices such as the popular iPod and Nook have been changing the way people read and purchase books. The Chatham Area Public Library is part of Library on the Go, a program where CAPL patrons can check on electronic texts with their library ...
'Human lending' changing the shape of libraries
CTV.ca
The deputy chief librarian of the Surrey Public Library told CTV News.ca that the aim is to shift how people think of libraries, from being a place where books are stored to a service centre where community members can trek to for knowledge. ...
Rochester's favorite books
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
"Kite Runner" and the Harry Potter books are among the favorites of Rochester-area readers. / Carlos Ortiz/Staff photographer We asked several local leaders what their favorite books are. Some couldn't narrow it down to just one, just like many of us. ...
Kendal Rautzhan: Books teach valuable lessons
Port Huron Times Herald
Today's reviewed books redirect attention away from material obsessions to what really matters most in finding happiness and satisfaction in a life. The following book is available at many public libraries. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge was a young ...
Bookmarks: Book fairs, signings, literary days and more
Florida Times-Union
Local book publishers and authors Frances Keiser and Jane Wood will present a full-day publishingseminar, "Get Savvy at the River," from 8:30 am to 5 pm Saturday, Sept. 10, at The House on Cherry Street Bed and Breakfast, 1844 Cherry St. in Riverside. ...
Books for everyone
Northern Advocate
by Peter Leonard, Allen & Unwin, $36.99 When American exchange student William McCabe got caught up in his friend's joyriding, he had no idea that it would lead to a kidnapping and a showdown with the mafia. McCabe is studying in Rome and gets mistaken ...
Soundtracked ebooks launch in UK
Telegraph.co.uk
By James Hall, Consumer Affairs Editor Publishers are capitalising on the popularity of electronicbooks, or ebooks, by releasing versions of literally classics with orchestral scores and sound effects such as crunching gravel added in. ...
More books, less bucks
Daily Helmsman
When comparing textbook prices for six freshman-level courses – a total of seven books – The Daily Helmsman found that assuming three textbook stores near campus have similar prices could cost a student quite a bit of money. Amazon.com prevailed with ...
EMAIL FROM AMERICA:Why are we not reading books?
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The traditional publishing industry is on the ropes, sustained only by the arrogance of those who insist that, books must be written, and that, they will be read if only the populace would get off the shopping, malls and just read. ...
Christian publishers count their blessings
The Tennessean
Photo illustration by George Brooks / Gannett's Nashville Design Studio; Books courtesy of United Methodist Publishing House, Worthy Publishing and Thomas Nelson. Author Cathleen Fulsani speaks about her new book, Belieber!, on Thursday at EMI in ...
Of Bugs and Books
New York Times
But as one who spent her summer on a book tour, I would like to offer this firsthand report from the front lines: Americans are still reading books. Night after night after night I showed up in a different bookstore and people were there with their ...
New authors list page up
By David Veksler
Combining Mises Daily, Literature, and Media authorshttp://mises.org/authors/
Mises Economics Blog
Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #11 — The Book Designer
By Joel Friedlander
Chris Brogan presents Writing a Book — Making Money posted at Chris Brogan, saying “You don't get all that rich writing books, unless you're James Patterson or Stephen King or that marketing guy who made 7 figures selling ebooks through the Kindle ... Jeff Bennington presents 5 Reasons Why Indie Authors Are Succeeding posted at The Writing Bomb, saying, “I'm an indie author, and I started my own publishing company because I've discovered that if you enjoy the intricacies of ...
The Book Designer
The Book Bench: In the News: Books on Good Looks, The ...
By Vanna Le
From labor to love, do beautiful people really have it easier? Three new books discuss the economic advantages of good looks. Helen Vendler imagines a utopian elementary-school curriculum in which students spend all day, every day ...
The Book Bench
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement - The Rumpus.net
By Seth Fischer
Whether you're boiling to death in the west and center or hunkered down under battened hatches back east, I can't think of a better time to sit inside and catch up with Rumpus Books.The Personal Is Political — Tori Schacht reviews Anatomy of ...
The Rumpus.net


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