The Kentucky Post has an inspiring article about prison inmates recording children's books on tape. The tapes get sent to the kids of ...

...the first book you ever read? Not the first book that was read to you (obviously), but the first book that you read all by yourself. I do...

To: All Publishers Subject: Urgent Memo No book that I like should ever go out of print. This includes books that I read when I was a kid, b...

I have a tote bag that stops people in their tracks. Whenever I carry this bag, I get comments. They come from kids, adults, teachers, paren...

Yesterday, I wrote a post about trusting yourself and your judgement about books. I said that it was okay to have different reactions to b...

Do you ever feel you HAVE to fall in love with a book? Everybody around you loves it. It reached the top of the bestseller list. It won a pr...

In the comments of this post , Jen Robinson mentioned a meme that went around a while ago, which asked what fictional schools you would lik...

I got tagged for a meme (a list of information) by Jennie at Biblio File . This is my second one ever, and I wanted to respond because I act...

Oooh , I could use one of these. Check this out... it's a chair that also functions as a bookshelf. No need to ever get up, except for y...

In honor of Halloween, check out this list at Abebooks of the 10 scariest characters in literature. Only one (the last one) is from a chil...

I drove from my house to campus last Halloween (about a 30 minute drive) and heard the song Monster Mash FIVE times on the radio in that h...

I was at a conference the other day... a really great conference for children's librarians... and I was chatting with Jennie of BiblioFi...

A lot of people chimed in on the confession I made about having not read a classic series of books and now I feel far less alone. So now I ...

I have never read Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass . There. I admitted it. I've always meant to read His Dark Materials (the tril...