My earliest reading memoryProbably The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, read to me when I was perhaps three. It is very different from the movie and so was my first introduction to distortions and improvements... Read more »
Billie Eilish has become the latest star to read a CBeebies bedtime story, having chosen a book that teaches children about interacting with nature. The Oscar-winning singer of What Was I Made... Read more »
“Read with the mind-set of a carpenter looking at trees,” Terry Pratchett once wrote, and before I set about the carpentry of writing, with the dawning freakout of each new deadline, one... Read more »
ALA 2024: Librarians rally for the right to read Jul 01 2024 Freedom to read tops the list of librarians’ priorities, and the American Library Association’s 2024 conference emphasized the existential threats... Read more »
Book banning has seen a sharp rise across the United States, and many of the titles targeted depict LGBTQ+ people and their experiences. Books banned during the 2023-2024 school year reached a... Read more »
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage month, when we recognize the cultural presence and contributions of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and Native Hawaiians. Below is a list of some exciting recent hardcover releases,... Read more »
Politicians mince or mash words for a living, and the virtuosity with which they twist meanings makes them artists of a kind. Their skill at spinning facts counts as a fictional exercise:... Read more »
How many books will you read before you die? Jan 25 2024 From The Economist:
“Our back-of-the-envelope calculations show how many books you can still hope to read—and how to make... Read more »