Grants & Community Reading: Penguin Random House UK picked 44 independent bookshops for its £150k Penguin Children’s Bookshop Grant 2026, funding everything from parent reading-confidence courses to manga and graphic-novel programs. Inuit Poetry Publishing: Stephanie Mikki Adams released the first part of her Still Here: A Reclamation Trilogy, drawing on 2,000+ poems written since her teens to process grief, racism, and Inuit identity. AI, Kids, and Books: A new pushback against screen-heavy childhoods argues devices are harming brain development—an issue that’s now spilling into the publishing conversation about what children read and how they learn. Distribution Clash: Penguin Random House India won’t distribute Joe Sacco’s The Once and Future Riot on the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, citing red flags including an inaccurate map and unanswered citation questions. Big Publishing Deals: Wiley agreed to buy Emerald Publishing for £337m, expanding its research and economics/business/finance footprint. New Titles & Genres: Fitzcarraldo Editions spotlights debut and literary fiction with housing-crisis Dublin in Dooneen and Ireland’s mapped-over Famine history in Maggie O’Farrell’s Land. Comics & Culture: A new interactive coding children’s book, Yago!, and fresh attention on graphic novels’ role in the reading crisis keep comics firmly in the spotlight.