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Two new books and an accompanying CD that pay tribute to Salem’s musical history recently became available.
The books are “Old Salem at Sea in Ballad and Song” by Robert Strom, with foreword by Daisy Nell, and “Old Salem in Ballad and Song” by Robert Strom, with foreword by Jim McAllister.
In “Old Salem at Sea in Ballad and Song,” there are over 90 ballads and sea songs that entertained sailors in their long hours at sea and sea shanties, sung to “lighten the workload and as a relief from the tedium of hard hauling or pulling the lines and adjusting the sails required to keep the ship working.”
Children s Publishers Choose Their Favorite Reads of 2020 Compiled by Diane Roback | Dec 22, 2020
We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year, frontlist or backlist, and what they loved about it. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published. Happy reading!
Jamie Tan, senior publicist, Candlewick Press
I’ve been craving the kind of books that I would devour in high school: floppy backlist paperbacks that are easy to hold in one hand while snacking with the other, with stories that I want to reread again and again. I’ve had