New York Times Books
Children’s Books: The Greatest’s Story, Told Twice Two handsome new books for different age groups take on the formidable challenge of telling the story of Muhammad Ali’s epic life.
Children’s Books: Earth to Young People: Help! A “family encyclopedia of ecology” and the first book by “the MySpace community” spell out environmental threats and suggest action to help.
Children’s Books: When We Last Saw Our Heroes ... Sequels to the popular children’s books “Not a Box,” “Zen Shorts” and “Little Pea” — plus the latest in Mo Willems’s “Pigeon” series.
Library Journal Books
Library 2.0 Gang Kicks Off The Library 2.0 Gang podcast series launched March 19, featuring gang regulars John Blyberg, Nicole Engard, Char Booth, Carl Grant, Rob Styles, and guest Aaron Swartz, discussiing The Open Library and new cataloging influences with host Richard Wallis.
Tulare County Supervisors Back Library in Probationary Librarian Firing Despite a probationary library assistant's contention that the loss of her job was connected to an unauthorized report to police that a library patron was looking at child pornography, the Tulare County Board of Supervisors, Visalia, CA, said an internal review determined that decision was not connected to that report.