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
reform. jonah, thank you for being with us this morning. thank you for having me. you know i ve commit the as many have our lives toward many things in civil rights including police reforms. i ve watched this very carefully. i met with sessions and outraged they re kind of backing up. and your paper, your online gathering of datas is head out of the 99 recommendations the obama justice department had had made to the chicago police department. only six have been implemented? yes. so far. so like you said, the justice department came in in the wake of the shooting of course about the video in late 2015 this past january. they came out with the report a few days before the end of
and they re essentially being killed because of that. and judges are saying it from the bench and that is why you got to take the politics out of it and have independent review of these cases and prosecutions. yeah. as you know, it s so rare for officers to be charged with a crime. it s almost an anomaly for them to be convicted of a crime. i think it s impossible for them to ever serve time if convicted. where we have seen them convicted, not been involved in some is when you have outside federal prosecution or special prosecution and they go to jail. but you ve got to keep on until you can change how the system works. thank you yamish and thank you jonah newman. coming up, how the state of florida is dealing with the devastation of hurricane irma and how it may be related to daca and immigration reform. to most people, i look like most people.
consent decrees agreements between the forecast government and local police departments to reduce misconduct would be reviewed by the trump justice department. the move was interpreted by some as giving leeway to embattled urban police departments, a prime example being the city of chicago which was sued last month by the illinois attorney general for not doing enough to protect civil rights. they recommended 99 reforms of which the city according to chicago reporter has only fully implemented six. i want to bring in jonah newman. he s a data reporter for the chicago reporter which recently launched an online tracking tool to monitor the city of police
don t actually bring the same economic integration that you might be hoping for. hold on, jonah. don t go away. there is a quote by jamie calvin journalist and activist jonah talks about in the piece. he said it s fundamentally disrespectful. this is a community like any other community, with the full spectrum of everything human beings are capable of. but that is so far removed. the only thing to do with poor people is destroy the houses and send them a off rather than having an assets-based understanding that yes, there s poverty but there s also value. as opposed to investing in schools, they shut them down. the same logic when you deal with poor people. and the same kind of flaws. as opposed to gaining an understanding of this community. and so i ve been in lots of poor communities in my life some of