by Tatia Gruenbaum Tatia Gruenbaum is a lecturer and researcher at Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and co-founder of PEPELT (Picturebooks in European Primary English Language Teaching). October 17 is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, established in 1992 by the UN General Assembly and officially [...]
by Lília When I was a kid, I could never find books that whet my appetite, even though I loved all kinds of stories. I wanted to read about adventure, mysteries, dragons and fairy tales. Unfortunately for me, there were not many of those stories around, especially translated [...]
Peter and Lotte Longtime customer Peter introduced his wife, Lotte, to ABC. But that was only the beginning of their love story. Read on to see how they gave new meaning to the phrase “book lovers” (with a little help from Covid, timing and ABC staff). [...]
by MariaS October 4th is World Animal Day, an internationally-recognized celebration promoting animal rights and welfare held on the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. Being kind to your pets, giving them the best life possible and making sure they are never abandoned all fall under [...]
by Lauren Book banning in the US is on the rise. According to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans, there were 2,532 book-banning incidents concerning 1,648 titles in the US from July 2021 to June 2022—almost half of them young adult books. The most banned books by far contain LGBTQ+ [...]
If you lead teens to #BookTok, you won’t have to make them read. (Hint: they’ll do it on their own!) by Lauren As a lifelong reader, I always found it disheartening that my daughters didn’t take to the written word. They inherited other, less desirable behavioral traits, but [...]
by Natalia The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles, currently one of our bestsellers, is inspired by Greek mythology and one of my favorite contemporary versions of Homer’s The Iliad. Even though the events of the Trojan war are part of our collective memory, [...]
by Lília & Ester Manga madness: what’s coming out in the last quarter of 2022! The end of 2022 is fast approaching, which means it’s time to present the last Manga releases of the year. There will be six new series, six new titles from ongoing series and two new stand-alone titles [...]
by Lynn Tree-hugging comes and goes with me. As a child, I was happy lying on my back in the grass, surrounded by a square of waving and rustling poplar trees that framed the starry sky in my own backyard. My favorite place to study as a teenager was under the [...]
by Lília When I started sewing some 10 years ago, I wasn’t thinking about fashion, sustainability or how much we consume on a daily basis. I was thinking about making clothes that would fit me well. Fast forward a few years, and I became conscious of how fast fashion pollutes the [...]
