A Children’s Book & Hungary’s Fight Over LGBT Rights
On September 21st Dorottya Redai and Boldizsar Nagy released their children’s book Meseorszag mindenkie (A Fairy Tale for Everyone) in Hungary. The anthology of fairy tales, updated to be diverse and include LGBTQ characters, sold 1,500 copies in two weeks (that’s a lot!). And then the homophobes came for the book, wanting to ban it: “On Sept. 25, the deputy leader of Hungary’s far-right Mi Hazank party tore apart the book’s pages one by one during a press conference, calling it “’homosexual propaganda.’”
Taye Diggs Releases Free Children’s Book
Actor, singer, and author Taye Diggs has a new children’s book about acceptance and anti-bullying and you can download the ebook for free from Baskin Robbins’ website, which also created ice cream flavors based on the characters: a Unicorn, Mermaid, and Monster. Feel like I buried the lede there about there being ice cream flavors to go with The Festival of Creatures!
The Memory Police To Be Adapted
The filmmaking team behind the The Handmaid’s Tale’s adaptation is now adapting the surveillance-state dystopian novel The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa for Amazon Studios. The novel, nominated for a National Book Award, was adapted to English 25 years after its Japanese debut and is frighteningly still relevant.
How Do Readers Rate The New York Times Best-Selling Books?
What do actual readers think about the books that land on the New York Times Bestseller List? A new study finds out.