Campbell County School District trustees voted unanimously recently to implement a Spanish dual-language immersion program at one of their new schools.
Campbell County School District trustees voted unanimously recently to implement a Spanish dual-language immersion program at one of their new schools.
Online platform Nubico has prepared a profile on digital reading habits in Spain, with very positive findings.
A Spanish-language book truck has started traveling to schools, parks, and other areas of San Diego County. The Mexican publisher Fondo de Cultura Economica launched the book truck with the Mexican Consulate in San Diego.
The eight stations are part of The Public Collection, which had its grand opening Thursday afternoon. All of the stations were designed by Indiana-based artists and aim to combine art and literacy.
Organizers of Boston’s Book Festival announced that the ‘2015 One City One Story’ selection is “Home Movie” by Boston author Jennifer De Leon. One City One Story is Boston’s version of a city-wide read, developed by the Boston Book Festival. The program's goal, according to Boston Book Festival founder and executive director Deborah Porter, “is to make a short story available to all, free of charge, to spread the joy of reading for pleasure among the teens and adults of our city, and to create a community around a shared reading experience.”.
The London Book Fair has teamed up with PubMatch (co-owned by Publishers Weekly and Combined Book Exhibit) to launch Global Rights 365@LBF: An exclusive offering from The London Book Fair, facilitating year-round rights business for LBF participants.
Fans of Stieg Larsson’s captivating odd couple of modern detective fiction — the genius punk hacker Lisbeth Salander and her sometime partner, the crusading investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist — will not be disappointed by the latest installment of their adventures, written not by their creator, Stieg Larsson (who died of a heart attack at the age of 50 in 2004), but by a Swedish journalist and author named David Lagercrantz.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS), present the free weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 34 of 2015 (week ending 8/23/2015).
US Panel is usually formed by six or seven industry experts, among which there are professors, translators, agents, librarians, authors, editors and publishers. Some of the panelists change every edition, therefore allowing more professionals to participate in this project. The panel meets twice a year for each edition, and their decisions are based on their experience in this industry, their knowledge of the market and also on the reader’s reports, which are commissioned by this office to readers selected beforehand. Members of the panel reach their final decision following their opinions and with absolute independence.
Pediatrician Dr. Suzanne Nielsen at Banner Health Center in Gilbert, Arizona participates in the Reach Out and Read program to promote early literacy and school readiness.
