Dolly Parton Will Read To Us
The national treasure Dolly Parton will read children’s books once a week on her video series GoodNight With Dolly. The first episode will be Thursday, April 2nd at 7pm. The series will stream for the next 10 weeks on the Imagination Library’s site and social media accounts. Gonna be watching this on a forever loop.
National Emergency Library Not So Great
After many articles and social media love went to the Internet Archive’s announcement that it was expanding access to a million+ digitized works in its “National Emergency Library,” it turns out they don’t actually have the rights or permission to many of the works. “‘The problem with bypassing copyright and disrupting the chain of royalties that lead from books to authors is that it endangers our ability to continue to produce art — and though we are all in the midst of a crisis, most artists are on the razor’s edge in terms of being able to support themselves,’ he [Chuck Wendig] added. ‘Artists get no safety net.'”
In Sad News
Tomie dePaola, author and illustrator of almost 300 books, has passed away at the age of 85. He was best known for his 1975 children’s book Strega Nona, about a gentle Italian witch.