In 1972, Farley Drexel Hatcher, more commonly known as Fudge, burst onto the pages of Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and nothing has…
In her most celebrated work, 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff acknowledges the gift of a book, noting, “I’ll have mine till the day I die…
For Harry Potter fans, the biggest day of the year has finally arrived. Beginning at midnight, devoted readers will be poring over Harry Potter and the…
As someone who has always wanted “just one more story,”I spend a great deal of time each year reading books that are new — at…
The American Library Association is “acting up” these days in celebration of Teen Read Week. This year’s theme, “Get Active @ Your Library,” is meant…
My introduction to The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster occurred when I was in the sixth grade, after my English teacher recommended the book as “a good…
How important is it that children learn to “read the world”1 along with the words on a page? More than 35 years ago, Paulo Freire, a…
“Get real.” How many times have you heard a sullen or sarcastic teenager utter these words? Well, the Young Adult Library Services Association is currently…
Even as a bored eleven-year-old stuck in the backseat of the car, I could not resist opening the pages of Erma Bombeck’s When You Look Like…
“So, what do you want to be when you grow up?” is a standard inquiry that adults use to initiate conversation with the kids around…