The Reason We Should Read Picture Books to Older Kids
I was quickly cruising through my email inbox on Friday morning, making sure there wasn’t something urgent needing my attention, when I came across a link to a New York Times article about how picture...
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Making the Unreal Real: An Interview With Kij Johnson
Photo by Marziah Karch Remember how I said that Lawrence, Kansas is a secret hub of science fiction and fantasy awesome? Meet Kij Johnson, KU’s new fantasy professor, an award-winning writer of...
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The Books That Changed My Life
This is Keele Hall. In the attic of Keele Hall, once the servants quarters, you will find the Department of English where I studied for my Bachelors Degree. In front of this building I did much of my...
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William Shakespeare’s Star Wars—May the Verse Be With You
Alas, poor C-3PO, I knew ye not \ Image: Gordon Tarpley Editor’s note: After a successful inaugural year with over 1200 events across North America, Star Wars Reads Day strikes back again today....
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NaNoWriMo 2013 – Are You In?
Nano: Write Fast, Edit Later © Sophie Brown Two weeks from today Nanowrimo 2013 gets underway and those of us participating in this year’s event are starting to feel the pressure building. For those...
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Between the Bookends at GeekMom
This month the GeekMoms have run the gamut from new interpretations of Beowulf to a murder mystery in post-Revolutionary War New England. There are graphic novels filled with aliens and wizards,...
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Letters to Aunt C: On the Power of Reading, Writing, and Good Advice
Image by Natania Barron The Power of a Pen Pal Having a pen pal is a rite of passage for most kids born before the age of the internet—you know, when communicating with people across the continent...
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Building a Personalized Library
Image: Sarah Pinault Many years ago, my friend introduced me to The Tail of Emily Windsnap, a story about a girl who discovers she is a mermaid. This having been a childhood fantasy of mine, I found...
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Get Ready WriMos – National Novel Writing Month Approaches
Every November, thousands of people embark on a month of literary abandon. National Novel Writing Month is the brainchild of Chris Baty, having started as a fun challenge between friends in 1999 which...
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54,600 Un-Birthday Wishes for Alice in Wonderland
November 26th, 2015, marked the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The origin of the Alice stories were conceived by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Oxford mathematics don, whom the world...
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Tribute: The Mockingbird That Died of a Broken Heart
There will be no candlelit vigils outside theatres. No tribute performances in memory. No posthumous award with a standing ovation at a gala event—that would be too ironic for both of them. Perhaps...
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Literary Geocaching: When Books Leap Into Real Life
We all know what geocaching is—a global treasure hunt where participants use a GPS receiver to locate hidden “caches” of tiny toys or rubber stamps. Literary geocaching (or GeoLit) takes the treasure...
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