Check It Out: A Petition to Add Children’s Nonfiction Lists to the NYT Bestseller Lists!

Folks, there are times when you hog the spotlight and there are times when you step out of the way. Today, we are hoping to do the latter. Melissa Stewart (whose book Summertime Sleepers recently won itself a fancy dancy Sibert Honor) alerted me to a coalition of more than 250 influential educators and librarians. What are they doing? They’re asking the New York Times to add three children’s nonfiction bestseller lists to complement the existing lists that focus on juvenile fiction.

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