
- Beloved Finnish children’s book characters the Moomins get a new animated series, starring Rosamund Pike, Taron Egerton, and Kate Winslet. (Variety)
- Nominees for this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature includes The Hate U Give and Long Way Down. (Publishers Weekly)
- YA author Philip Reeve on the Peter Jackson adaptation of his bestselling sci-fi book Mortal Engines. (Wired)
- U.S. judge publishes opinion on why illustrated children’s books made from famous novels, by Capote, Hemingway, Kerouac, and others, are not fair use. (World Intellectual Property Review)
- A new Harry Potter exhibit, featuring rare books, manuscripts, and “magical objects” that inspired J.K. Rowling, will run at the British Library and on BBC2. (The Bookseller)
- New Yorker writer acquainted with children’s author Louis Sachar, known for the Wayside School series and Newberry Award–winning Holes. (The New Yorker)