James and the Giant Peach
"Magic green pills spill, accidentally, onto the ground beneath a peach tree. A peach appears overnight, the only fruit the tree has ever produced; by morning, it's swollen to the size of a houseboat,...
View ArticleBook News for Monday, May 11, 2009
Resolution: A sad end to the search for Craig Arnold: the missing poet is now presumed dead. The Poetry Foundation blog posted an update: Though Craig himself has not been recovered, the amazing expert...
View ArticleJames and the Giant Peach
Magic green pills spill, accidentally, onto the ground beneath a peach tree. A peach appears overnight, the only fruit the tree has ever produced; by morning, it's swollen to the size of a houseboat,...
View ArticleErin Morgenstern: The Powells.com Interview
All this summer, Erin Morgenstern's debut novel, The Night Circus, has been garnering extraordinary buzz in the book world, which is especially remarkable given that it doesn't go on sale until...
View ArticleNeil Patrick Harris: What I’m Giving
At Powell's, we feel the holidays are the perfect time to share our love of books with those close to us. For this special blog series, we reached out to authors featured in our Holiday Gift Guide to...
View Article30 Books Challenged in Oregon
It's one thing to read about censorship in a news article; it's another to become aware of the threat at a nearby library or school. For Banned Books Week this year, we reviewed hundreds of documented...
View Article10 Strange Reasons for Banning a Book
For Banned Books Week this year, we combed through hundreds of records of challenged materials reported by Oregon schools and libraries over the past 35 years. In the process, we came across some...
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