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She runs her 20-year-old organization, called First Book, with a financial self-reliance that minimizes corporate handouts and keeps government off the page.
The current record for the highest-priced printed book is not a Gutenberg Bible or a First Folio of Shakespeare but a copy of John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” which sold for $11.5 ...
First Book staff members review about 10,000 titles each year, and its website features both classics and lists like “The Best New Books of 2024.” ...
The first book Dr. Seuss (real name: Theodore Seuss Geisel) ever published for children under his pen name was And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street. Even if you don’t remember the book ...
In August, the coalition got an inaugural boost from the “Thriving Children” grant awarded to First Book by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, funding set to run through January 31, 2024.
Social media discourse and the inevitable backlash aside, the 26-year-old writer's first book is an amusing, if uneven, take on growing up white, privileged, and Gen Z.
First Book (Washington, D.C.) is a nonprofit social enterprise that provides new books, learning materials and other essentials to children in need. Currently, more than half of U.S. public school ...
Martha Stewart’s First Book Finds New Fans After fierce online bidding wars for vintage copies of “Entertaining,” a homemaking classic from 1982, the publisher decides to put it back in stores.
Iconic Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodovar -- seen here with Tilda Swinton (l) and Julianne Moore in Venice this month, has finally released his first book. WireImage Over the course of his 50 ...
Click here for a local NPR member station that carries the program. We'll post the as-aired interview on this post later on tonight. Correction at 11:29 a.m. ET. First Printed Book In North America: ...
The book was published in Cambridge, Mass., by the Congregationalist Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, just 20 years after the Pilgrims first arrived at Plymouth seeking freedom ...