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A Reading Rainbow documentary, titled Butterfly in the Sky, will be released in certain AMC theaters. The movie, which premiered during the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, shows the behind-the-scenes happenings of the iconic ’80s children show, as well as the particular challenges host LeVar Burton and others faced in promoting childhood literacy through it. View
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Below are four areas of consideration. It’s not comprehensive, but instead, a series of places to start now. Where and how do you sticker items? Autauga-Prattville Library (AL) recently made headlines for two major changes to its policies. First, the board decided no books for those under the age of 17 could include LGBTQ+ content.
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. It Feels Like a Lot Because It Is a Lot If your latest scroll through the Netflix menu
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The adaptation of Shakespeare’s lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers story Much Ado About Nothing, titled Anyone But You, has grossed $189 million globally, making it the second highest-grossing live-action Shakespeare adaptation ever. The only other live-action adaptation of the Bard’s to beat it — if we aren’t counting 2019’s Lion King, since it is CGI — is Baz Luhrmann’s
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nimona by ND Stevenson is a bestselling graphic novel that came out in 2015. In 2023, the animated adaptation was released on Netflix, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. And now, the entire
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Last week, an open letter addressed to PEN America was sent. It contained the signatures of over 600 writers, including Roxane Gay, Marie-Helene Bertino, Saeed Jones,Laura van den Berg, Myriam Gurba, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. The letter calls on the nonprofit organization to respond to the threat that “Israel’s genocide of Palestinians represents for the
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