7 Must-Read Children’s Halloween Books These picture books about Halloween will delight your kids without frightening them. Halloween is a huge deal at my house. My kids love dressing up year-round, and the combination of dressing up and free candy is almost too much for them to handle. I like Read more…
When is Your Kid Ready for Harry Potter? A Guide for Getting Started “You’re a wizard, Harry.” As a bibliophile and a parent, you’re so eager for the day your kid is ready to read those words and enter the wizarding world of Harry Potter. But along with fanciful components Read more…
August’s Best New Fiction This month’s best new work includes the second book of the Half-Drowned King Viking fantasy trilogy, a portrait of a Midwest town in decline, a debut roman à clef by an Iraq veteran currently imprisoned for bank robbery, and a historical about the Black Plague. And for lighter, Read more…
Recommended ‘Shark Week’ Reading What danger lies beneath the ocean waves? Luckily for us readers, this question has consumed both novelists and nonfiction writers alike for ages. So, just in time for the annual Shark Week (the Discovery Channel’s eight days of all things shark-related), we’ve rounded up some great books on Read more…
The Book Is (Almost Always) Better Than The Movie It’s undeniable that a book original usually blasts its movie version out of the water. But why is that so? Below, six reasons books almost always take the cake. Filmmakers, consider this your cheat sheet for bringing book-based movies more up Read more…
I Don’t Remember The Title, But The Cover Was Blue I don’t remember the title, but the cover was blue. Another winning display by Teresa Templeton, Assistant librarian at the Corinth Public Library.
THE GREAT AMERICAN READ PREMIERES TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2018 8/7C THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight-part television and online series designed to spark a national conversation about reading and the books that have inspired, moved, and shaped us. The series will engage audiences with a list of 100 diverse Read more…
American Library Association announces 2018 Youth Media Award Winners The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, video and audio books for children and young adults—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards—at its Midwinter Meeting in Denver, Colorado. A list of all the 2018 award Read more…