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Scholastic is both a publisher and a distributor of books. It’s well-known for publishing educational material for schools, teachers, and parents, as well as books and resources for children. Scholastic’s publishing arm is responsible for producing a wide range of content, including books, magazines, and digital products and includes popular series and titles that cater to children and young adults. Scholastic is also well-known for its book fairs in schools where it children can attend and purchase books without direct parental supervision—and some of the stuff you might find at these book fairs is rather disturbing. So parents, beware. First...

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano opened the prestigious Turin book fair Thursday amid opposition from Muslims and the Italian Left over the choice of Israel as the event's guest of honor. "No dialogue is possible if there is a refusal to recognize Israel," Napolitano said at Israel's stand at the fair, the European Jewish Press reported. Napolitano added that there can be no "rejection of the reasons for [Israel's] birth or of its right to exist in peace and security." Like the Paris book fair in March, the Turin fair is honoring the modern state of Israel on the 60th anniversary...

(IsraelNN.com) Thousands of people were told to evacuate the international Paris book fair after a bomb threat was received. This year's book fair gave special honor to Israel, because of the 60th anniversary of its independence. Israeli writers Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld and others participated at the fair, and President Shimon Peres also paid a visit. Arab countries including Lebanon, Yemen,, Tunisia and Morocco boycotted the fair because of the special honor given Israel.

Churchill finds fans at Calif. fest CU professor gives keynote address at Anarchist Book Fair By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News March 28, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO - The preacher found his choir. Newly on notice that his job as a tenured ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado remains in jeopardy, Ward Churchill spent the weekend in the bosom of a community where his defiant, iconoclastic political message is mother's milk. The highlight of his tour was the 10th annual San Francisco Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday at Golden Gate Park. You could have found it just...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair started in 1995, it was a rather small collection of like-minded radicals getting together to talk politics, not certain if they were just preaching to the choir. Ten years later, thanks to shared enemies like the Bush Administration and the Patriot Act, the fair has become a popular rallying point for the far left and the focus of an entire weekend of dissident cultural events, from punk rock concerts to soccer games. "The Bush era," says Joey Cain, 50, a longtime organizer, "has been good for anarchist consumerism." All 75...

Thousands of like-minded souls with a taste for state smashing, patriarchy toppling, government defying, feminism, punk, radical politics and children's books with titles like "Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon" came out in force for the 10th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair. They snatched up books by Noam Chomsky and Emma Goldman, greeted old friends, bought "Bomb the mall" T-shirts and DVDs about "imperial democracy" and happily lay in the sunshine with their anarchist dogs and wild-plant food pamphlets. By midafternoon, the San Francisco County Fair Building and the lawn outside were packed with everyone from bookish brainiacs leafing through dense texts...