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After many complaints from parents and educators, Scholastic has decided to stop offering the Bratz line of books. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood raged against the Bratz, arguing that by allowing the books to be sold to students through Scholastic's book clubs, schools are tacitly condoning the Bratz brand of skankiness. Scholastic has changed its tune and now all books will be yanked from the roster this school year. [Perez] More »
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Attention Harry Potter fans: J.K. Rowling is planning to publish a book of wizard fairy tales based on tales referred to in the Potter books and (here is the nice part) she is donating the royalties and profits to charity. The British charity hopes to raise around $8 million through sales of the book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which was originally "published" as seven handwritten copies (reliving some possible zine days, we're guessing?) given mostly to friends and one was auctioned off for $4 million. The charity version will include illustrations by Rowling and "commentary" from Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts. The book will be published on December 4th, through Bloomsbury in Britain and Scholastic in the U.S.. Rowling considers this her last book concerning Harry Potter's world. [Yahoo! News] More »
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Natalie Portman is a known smarty-pants. That whole Harvard education and blah blah blah. And now she's going all Winnie from The Wonder Years on us and is trying to teach kids that math is cool! She's guest-editing next week's Scholastic math magazine. Do kids in grade school even know who Natalie Portman is? Last time we heard, Garden State isn't on regular rotation in the 2nd grade video library. [Huffington Post] More »
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