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12 Aug

CBC Increases Offerings On the Web

The Children's Book Council (CBC), an association of trade book publishers and producers of related literary materials for young people, has been steadily expanding its Web site with CBC Online at www.cbcbooks.org. The site, which is an amalgam of components for an audience of librarians, educators, booksellers, writers, illustrators, parents, and member publishers, offers many resources for the public.

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12 Aug

Some Recommended Comic Book Titles

Ryan Wilson, who runs the CD/DVD/Comics section at the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough, New Hampshire, gave a presentation to the New England Children's Booksellers Advisory Council (NECBA) last month. For the presentation, Ryan compiled an "opinionated list" of those titles that he felt would be a strong foundation for any bookstore's comic section. The following is Wilson's list of recommended comic book titles.

By Ryan Wilson

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12 Aug

BTW News Briefs

Ted Kooser Named New Poet Laureate

Ted Kooser, a retired vice president of Lincoln Benefit Life insurance company in Nebraska, was named America's new poet laureate, as reported by the Washington Post.

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12 Aug

The FBI Shouldn't Be Reading Over Our Shoulders

The following op-ed piece was written by ABA COO Oren Teicher and appeared in the August 9 edition of Newsday.

By Oren J. Teicher

We thought we had won.

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