This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by Page Street Publishing, publishers of It Should Have Been You by Lynn Slaughter.
First Look At The Hate U Give Adaptation
Photos from the film adaptation of Angie Thomas’s critically-acclaimed debut novel, The Hate U Give, were released by director George Tillman, Jr. The cast includes Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Lamar Johnson, Algee Smith, Issa Rae, Sabrina Carpenter, Anthony Mackie, Kian Lawley and Common. Click here to check out the photos.
Kwame Alexander Launches Imprint Highlighting Diverse Stories
The Crossover author has launched Versify to support stories that other publishers might not consider commercial enough to pick up. Some forthcoming titles from the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint include White Rose, a YA novel in verse telling the true story of the Nazi resistance leader Sophie Scholl, and Vamos!/Let’s Go! the first in a bilingual picture book series by illustrator Raul Gonzalez.
Boston Public Library Crowdsources Digitization Of Anti-Slavery Collection
The Boston Public Library is calling on the public to help catalog and digitize 40,000 documents from their Anti-Slavery collection. The manuscript correspondences document the abolitionist movement throughout New England. The BPL launched a website to make handwritten items from the collection available for volunteers from the public to transcribe into machine readable text. Check out the full article to find out more about how you can help.
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