NPR Offers Independent Booksellers' Summer Reading Recommendations...

My clock radio (which is always set to NPR) woke me up this morning with Susan Stamberg's story offering summer reading selections from from four independent booksellers. In case you missed this on Morning Edition today, have a read or take a listen. There are some cool book picks on the list. Says NPR:

Whatever your reading pleasure—be [it] fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir or graphic novels—you're sure to find page after page of pleasant escape in the recommendations that follow.

(My summer reading listing consists of a small stack of books I grabbed at BEA.)

Authors Offer Summer Reading Tips for Kids...

Check out this interview from WABC-TV featuring three authors who share tips for getting kids to read over the summer. Picture book author Jane O'Connor (Fancy Nancy), middle-grade author MAC (Anna Smudge: Professional Shrink) , and YA author Scott Westerfeld (Uglies) are interviewed.



My favorite tip came from MAC, a new author who recently sold out of her debut novel at its sneak preview during NY Comic Con, who advises parents to run over the video game console with the vacuum cleaner. Here's her book cover.