- EVERY Kindergarten student in Maine will receive a copy of The Circus Ship as part of the annual Read With ME event
- The old-fashioned library book sale has gone a bit 21st century in Duluth with the addition of hand-held scanners for buyers (via Duluth News Tribune)
- In Broken Arrow, Oklahoma school board members decided to keep a middle school library book on the shelves despite complaints. Some in the community were disturbed by swears contained in the book about a high school football player using steroids (via Broken Arrow Ledger)
- Here in Boston we had Willy Whistle, but to many the most famous television clown is Bozo; and a new book about the man behind the grease paint is out (via Chicago Tribune)
- Down in Atlanta, the NFL Falcons training camp had a bit of a bookish tint with players enrolled in the team book club (via Atlanta Journal Constitution)
- A new children’s book written by the wife of a wounded US Navy SEAL deals with the stress and sadness of a parent who returns home a changed person (via WTKR)
