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Bologna Children’s Book Fair: Calls for shorter books and pan-trade action to tackle reading crisis

Bologna Children’s Book Fair: Calls for shorter books and pan-trade action to tackle reading crisis

Group rights director Tracy Phillips explained: “In response to declining literacy rates across the world, our customers have been asking us for lower word counts and more highly illustrated books, often in full colour.”


30 of the best books for spring

30 of the best books for spring

Jo Harkin (Knopf) This Tudor-era historical novel is drawing comparisons to “Wolf Hall.” In 1480, John Collan is a peasant boy living in the English countryside when a man from London comes to town and claims that the 10-year-old is actually Lambert Simnel, the son of a duke and the rightful heir to the throne.