Staff Reviews: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Last Sunday night I made a terrible mistake. I started Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood just thirty minutes before bed and then I didn’t want to put it down! I stayed up way too late night after night as I became caught up in seventeen-year-old Alice Proserpine’s story of all the creepy, bad things that have followed her and her mother as they’ve spent their lives on Read more…
The Book Was Almost Thrown Away Friends of the Memphis Public Library Sold it for $1,250 You never know what you’ll find in a bin of old books. In the case of the Friends of the Memphis Public Library, you might just find a book worth $1,250. That’s how much the organization made off a 1968 first-edition of a science fiction book called “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” It was the most a former Read more…
A 30-million page library is heading to the moon to help preserve human civilization The massive archive is aboard Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft. Feb. 28, 2019, 2:58 PM CST By Corey S. Powell – NBC News When Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft launched toward the moon last week, it was carrying a mysterious cargo. Mission planners called it a time capsule but hinted that that wasn’t the whole story. Now the truth is out: The little lunar probe carries a 30-million-page Read more…
Your Kids Can Now Watch Astronauts Reading Stories From Space Reading to kids is wonderful and everything, but reading to kids from space is super awesome If you need to mix up your bedtime story routine a little bit, the Global Space Education Foundation has just the thing for you: Story Time in Space. It’s exactly what it sounds like — astronauts on various missions in space read popular children’s books while floating about, and the videos are edited Read more…
100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Her Letter About How Books Save Lives “Could you imagine a world without access to reading, to learning, to books?” Helen Fagin, who poses that question, doesn’t have to imagine it: she experienced that grim reality, and worse besides. “At twenty-one,” she continues, “I was forced into Poland’s World War II ghetto, where being caught reading anything forbidden by the Nazis meant, at best, hard labor; at worst, death.” Read more…
Posthumous Dr. Seuss book coming Sept. 3 NEW YORK (AP) — There is no muse like Dr. Seuss. An unfinished manuscript by the late children’s author is the basis for “Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum,” coming Sept. 3. Random House Children’s Books announced Thursday that illustrator Andrew Joyner completed the text, which has a look “both subtly Seussian and wholly his own.” The book features horse artwork by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock among others and Read more…
The Iuka Public Library has a great Bulletin Board for Black History Month
THE BOOKS THAT MATTERED MOST TO DAVID BOWIE, BIBLIOPHILE LITERARY INFLUENCES, FROM NIETZSCHE TO MISHIMA February 12, 2019 By Chris O’Leary David Bowie once recounted a story from the filming of The Man Who Fell to Earth in 1975. Relocating from Los Angeles to New Mexico for the shoot, he brought hundreds upon hundreds of books with him, a “traveling library” that he ported in cases large enough to hold an amplifier. His director, Nicolas Roeg, seeing Bowie sifting through Read more…
Female Librarians on Horseback Delivering Books, ca. 1930s In the 1930s, many people living in isolated communities had very little access to jobs, let alone a good education for their children. In Kentucky, they had isolated mountain communities which could only get their books and reading material from one source… librarians on horseback. President Franklin Roosevelt was trying to figure out a way to resolve the Great Depression of the 1930s. His Works Progress Administration Read more…
Luka, The Picture Book Reading Robot Luka is a little owl shaped robot that reads picture books to your kids. Literally, it reads the book—you place a picture book in front of Luka and it reads the title. You turn the page and it starts reading the words on the open pages. Turn to any page in the book and Luka immediately recognizes the page you’re on and starts reading it. You don’t have to Read more…
