Reeve, Gravett Take Big UK Children's Prizes
Philip Reeve won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for HERE LIES ARTHUR. The judges called it "both a page-turning adventure story and a clever historical novel. It also has clear political resonance for our times, demonstrating humanity's need to sustain hope and optimism, and our tendency to favour myth over reality to achieve that end."
 
And for the second time in three years, illustrator Emily Gravett has won the Kate Greenaway Medal, this time for LITTLE MOUSE'S BIG BOOK OF FEARS.
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Rapper Sets Up Imprint
Rapper KRS-One is creating an I Am Hip Hop imprint with powerHouse Books that will launch in spring 2009 with his own THE TEACHA'S GOSPEL OF HIP-HOP, "a 600-page manifesto documenting the genre's core tenets laid out like, what else, a Bible." The announcement says the line will "publish work of a number of different types with photography, philosophy and novels among them" and "serve as a home for cutting-edge, positive material related to the true culture and philosophies of Hip Hop."

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Starbucks Pulls Back on Music
Following the reorganization of Starbucks Entertainment announced in April, the New York Post reports that the coffee chain will reduce the number of music cds sold in their outlets from "upward of a dozen to just four." They add that "CD racks currently deployed in more than 6,500 Starbucks locations in the US and Canada will be removed in September."
 
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