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“#Who is Iole Lucchese, inheritor of Scholastic from Richard Robinson?” It was Iole Lucchese’s smile that first won over Richard “Dick” Robinson, the powerful head of Scholastic, when the lithe brunette met him at a Canadian booksellers’ conference in 1992. Lucchese, then 25, was an ambitious junior book-club editor at the Toronto branch of the…
“#Conservative publisher Brave Books debuts with ‘Elephants Are Not Birds’” A new conservative publishing house wants to get the “wokeness” out of bedtime. Launching this week, Brave Books will focus exclusively on stories for kids, and offers parents “a conservative alternative to the current cultural activism that our children are being taught in schools, in…
“#New app gives curated book-club book recommendations” Any book club member will tell you that choosing the right title is half the battle: Pick something too long or dense, and many of the members won’t read it; something too light, and there’s not much to discuss. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by long lists of…
“#My ‘troubled teen’ school hell: Strip searches, ‘smooshing’ and humiliation” “Where are you taking me?” It was the middle of the night, and two strangers dressed all in black were forcibly dragging Elizabeth Gilpin, then 15, out of her childhood bedroom. As they pulled her down the hall they passed her father, who looked on…
“#Colin Kaepernick’s kids book ‘I Color Myself Different’ inspired by upbringing” Colin Kaepernick is telling his origin story. The football player is writing a children’s book based loosely on his own life story, his publishing company, Kaepernick Publishing said in a statement this week. The book, “I Color Myself Different,” takes its name from one…
“#Train fanatic reveals secrets of the NYC Subway system” The unfathomably complex labyrinth of the New York City Subway is largely a mystery to riders beyond the few stations and routes they use every day. But its sprawling tentacles — subterranean, open-air and elevated — are as clear as a sunlit pond to Peter Dougherty, 60, an amateur railroad…
“#Even kids-book writers feel forced to apologize for condemning anti-Semitism” Israel, and Jews, can’t get a break these days — even from kid-lit authors. Addressing the US surge in anti-Semitism, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators finally condemned Jew-hatred in a statement last month — but only to water it down with a…
“#Washington, D.C. Quidditch team to play first match since pandemic” Broom up, Dumbledorks The Washington, D.C. Quidditch team, the Washington Admirals, will play their first game of the season since the pandemic Saturday afternoon at The Fields, an outdoor sporting complex in the capital. The team will face the New York Titans. The game is…
“#New York Society Library is the city’s best-kept secret” Shhhhh! The New York Society Library might just be one of the city’s best-kept secrets. Located in a beautiful townhouse at 53 E. 79th St. (near Madison Ave), the members-only library is New York’s oldest. For an annual fee of $270 per person ($350 for a…
“#Dueling Tucker Carlson books to hit shelves” Get ready for dueling Tucker Carlson books. Sources tell Media Ink that a smackdown is gearing up on the controversial Fox talk show host, commissioned by Little Brown, just as Carlson’s latest book, “The Long Slide,” prepares to hit the shelves. Vanessa Mobley, an executive editor at Little…