Footnotes, April 2022: Book links from around the web

At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye.

What will we be reading next year? Here are the five biggest trends from the London book fair.
In some countries, children as young as four learn to read and write. In others, they don’t start until seven. So what is the best age to learn to read?
Speaking of young readers, children’s favourite The Velveteen Rabbit turns 100 this year.
And kids again: The science is in: Reading the same books to your child over and over makes them smarter (!).
Robert Downey Jr turns author with (massive eyeroll) book on climate conscious eating habits.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian translator, novelist, and essayist Sergiy Zhadan has held a launch for his new book – in a bomb shelter in Kharkiv.
Can you pass this reading test designed for 10-year-olds?
A miniature unpublished manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old is to go on sale for … $1.25 million.
The odds are in, and Sally Rooney has zero chance of winning the Pulitzer this year.
Nearly 40 years ago, Hugh Hefner’s former personal butler wrote a memoir about his time working at the Playboy Mansion. The book has remained unpublished – until now.
Amy Winehouse’s library will be on display at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair – and the collection holds some surprises.
Since it changed to become an award for a single title, the International Booker Prize’s effect on book sales has been profound.
A new book explores the forgotten (to some) movement to reclaim Africa’s stolen art.
‘I have an ideal writing routine that I’ve never experienced, which is to have, say, nine uninterrupted days when I wouldn’t have to leave the house or take phone calls.’ – Read Toni Morrison on her writing routine.