I love this. I really love this. (This graphic has been provided by Burning Through Pages, a non-profit that actively works to encourage all kids—and especially teens—to read. Check out their page if you get a chance~~this is a group that provides books free of charge, helps kids join book clubs in their communities, and assists them in founding book clubs if there aren’t any. The group will also match a child or teenager with a volunteer to discuss the book with them one-on-one.) Read more »
I like big books and I cannot lie
I have had little time to read for pleasure over the last several months. But yesterday I was finally able to spend some quality time reading, and I finished off not one but two books. I feel like a new woman. And so I found a wonderful photograph that captures my feelings about reading today, yesterday, or any day, for that matter: Happy reading, everyone! Read more »
A Grown-Up Library
You know when you’re a kid, and you think it’s going to be so wonderful to be a grown-up? You can hardly hold yourself together in anticipation of the great adult life that will be yours as soon as your little limbs and torso and feet and hands just get with the program and grow already. Oh, the glamor! Ah, the freedom! And finally, at long last—the overwhelming excitement of your first taste of independence and adulthood! But unfortunately the charms of adulthood can start to pale pretty quickly once the bills, the errands, the perpetual lack of both sleep [...] Read more »
3 Kids Who Know How to Do Book Reviews
Folks, these people do some of the most interesting book reviews I’ve ever read, bar none. It also so happens that none of them have yet reached the age of 12. In addition, they produce the most interesting fan art to go along with their opinions of the books they’ve read. (It so happens that their graphic-art abilities far outstrip my own, so I won’t be giving them any competition in that arena, either.) But please take a moment today to read the latest book reviews of the Bookie-Woogie kids—Grace, Lily, and Elijah—and their dad, Aaron Wenz. You will find [...] Read more »