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Spotlight on Little Island Books

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This article was authored by Publisher Spotlight intern Vi Hendrix “Books create waves.” If you’re familiar with that phrase, then you’ve probably heard of Little Island Books. The independent, Dublin-based publisher was founded in 2010 by Siobhán Parkinson, Ireland’s first children’s laureate. To this day, they remain committed to their founding ideals of releasing high-quality […]

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Speaking to the Soul of Teen Readers: Young Adult Novels in Verse

This article is by Publisher Spotlight intern Nicole Speyrer Poetry, to many, carries the weight of emotion and internal movement. In a way, it sometimes becomes more difficult to express deeper, more complex experiences in our everyday language. In being forced to certain grammar constraints and spoken emphases or without certain imagery, a certain complexity