AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoWildlife Illustration Award: Annie Chen’s children’s book Salmon Run: An Epic Journey to the Ocean and Back won the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s 2026 Bull-Bransom Award for nature-focused illustration. Archaeology & Human Origins: Dr. Alex Menez published Dorothy Garrod and the Devil’s Tower Skull, revisiting the story behind a Neanderthal child’s skull discovered a century ago. Poetry for Endangered Species: Virginia Poet Laureate Emerita Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and Joyce Brinkman released Vanishing Life: A Poetic Warning, pairing structured tercets with a free-flowing second section to spotlight threatened animals. Civic Reading & Election Scrutiny: David Cain’s How They Fool You and free Fallacy Tester aim to help voters spot logical fallacies ahead of the 2026 midterms. Libraries & Community Books: Bikes for Kids hit its 18,000th-bike milestone; meanwhile, local library events include page-turning suggestions and a fall book sale returning Sept. 13. Publishing & Awards: Massachusetts Book Awards named Jill Lepore’s We the People nonfiction winner and Stuart Nadler’s Rooms for Vanishing fiction winner. Kids’ Literature & Events: Delaware’s F is for First State illustrator Elizabeth Traynor signs books Sept. 5. Global Book Fair: Iraq’s 27th Baghdad International Book Fair opened Sept. 2–10 with broad regional and international participation.
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