By: Priscilla Yu,
on 2/29/2016
A tired old elephant hunched in the room as President Obama announced the launch of a new moonshot against cancer during his State of the Union address a month ago. We've heard that promise before. On 23 December 1971, when President Nixon first declared a national war on cancer, he also based his conviction on the successfully completed moonwalk.
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By: Alice,
on 2/12/2013
President Obama is expected to announce at his State of the Union address tonight that 34,000 US troops — half the number currently stationed there — will return from Afghanistan next year. The war in Afghanistan has now continued for over ten years, since US forces entered the country after September 11th. The country, however, is still far from stable, and as Alex Strick van Linschoten, co-author of An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, explains, US involvement has become a crutch for a country still trying to find order. “It is a reality that the only thing holding the country together at the moment is essentially the presence of the foreigners, yet at the same time it’s one of the reasons for the continuing instabilities,” Strick van Linschoten says.
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Alex Strick van Linschoten has lived in Afghanistan since 2006. With Felix Kuehn, he is the co-author of An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, co-editor of My Life with the Taliban, and The Poetry of the Taliban. He is currently working on a PhD at the War Studies Department of King’s College London. Follow him on Twitter @alexstrick.
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By: Mo Willems,
on 3/1/2008
Thanks to you, Knuffle Bunny Too remains on the New York Times Bestseller list, hopping up to #5 for its 16th week, and joining pals Kadir Nelson, Jon Scieszka, Jon Muth, Patric McDonnell, and the very nice Antoinette Portis. And here's a bonus article about the upcoming film screening in NYC.
By: Mo Willems,
on 2/23/2008
Knuffle Bunny Too reappears on the New York Times Bestseller list (at #10 for its 15th week). I’ll be speaking and signing in Athens, GA. On the weekend (March 1 +2), the New York International Children’s Film Festival will screen the animated version of Knuffle Bunny (in the Shorts for Tots section) and Sheep in the Big City’s Miss Pretty Hair Doll spot (in the My Body and Me(dia) section).
By: Mo Willems,
on 2/22/2008
(How can this bunny be so distressed when Knuffle Bunny Too is a Publishers Weekly bestseller?)
By: Mo Willems,
on 2/9/2008
Thanks to you Knuffle Bunny Too remains on the New York Times Bestseller list, clocking in at #8 for the 14th week.
By: Mo Willems,
on 2/6/2008
Thanks to you Knuffle Bunny Too remains on the NY Times Bestseller list, clocking in at #6 for its 13th week. Long time pal (and producer for the Off-Beats and Sheep in the Big City) Kris Greengrove sends in this shot of her new puppy's new best friend, a (terrified) Knuffle Bunny. Oh, and yesterday during Mardi Gras in New Orleans a mom who had met Trixie asked if I’d every read “that book
By: Mo Willems,
on 1/26/2008
Thanks to you (and the fine folks over at the Caldecott Committee), Knuffle Bunny Too has returned to the New York Times Bestseller List list at number 4. It's nice to see all the other sticker winners and pals Jon Scieszka and Jon Muth up there, too. Thanks all!
By: Rebecca,
on 10/26/2007
The New York Times Book Review is the bible, but you wouldn’t know it. On any given Sunday, New York and its most intellectual denizens clutch the publishing industry’s holy text and systematically choose their next subway fashion statement. Sam Tanenhaus may or may not have brought the Bestseller List from Sinai, but he certainly leads his chosen people to the Holy Land better bookstores everywhere. (more…)
When are the plush elephant and piggie going to be available? We are eagerly awaiting their debut!
Keep it tuned here.As soon as they're on the shelves, I'll post it.Mo