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Book Club Announcement: The Silver Chair

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

bridge is sunrise mist

What we remember can be the key to finding our way, completing a task, maybe even saving the world. Join us for our new book club, where remembering is the way through the dark: The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, The Silver Chair

A Ritual to Read to Each Other: Reading to Aragog

By Megan Willome 17 Comments

Harry Potter

Join author Megan Willome in the new column, A Ritual to Read to Each Other, and consider what you might read to a giant dangerous and dying spider?

Filed Under: A Ritual to Read to Each Other, A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Books

Friendship Project: Somebody I Used To Know

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Writers Block Coffee Shop

When writer’s block threatens to derail, one writer finds a way forward in music, baking, friendship and the practice of “living it a while.”

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Project, Patron Only, Writing Life

Reader Come Home: “Adjustments”

By Megan Willome 15 Comments

Will Willingham

Come learn the secrets of being a deep reader as we read ‘Adjustments,’ a very funny book about a man not unlike Keats. And share your October pages in our Reader, Come Home roundup.

Filed Under: Adjustments, Blog, book reviews, Books, Reader Come Home

Un-writing the Fairytale, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 2017: The Feminist Implications of Failed Deconstruction and the Lack of Fairytale Logic

By Sara Barkat 7 Comments

Disney's Beauty and the Beast Dance Scene Movie Review

The reviews of Disney’s live action Beauty and the Beast 2017 never did end up raving. Here’s a suggestion as to why a movie (and story) with such potential fell short. Writers, take note.

Filed Under: Blog, Fairytales

Reader, Come Home: “Evvie Drake Starts Over”

By Megan Willome 14 Comments

Linda Holmes

Come learn the secrets of being a deep reader with author Megan Willome. And share your July pages for our monthly Reader, Come Home column.

Filed Under: book reviews, Books, Reader Come Home

Reading in the Wild: August’s Pages

By Megan Willome 17 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your August pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her August good reads.

Filed Under: Blog, Book Love, Literacy for Life, Reading in the Wild, Shakespeare

The Problem with Laura Ingalls Wilder: part 2, Half-Pint

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

There is a problem with Laura Ingalls Wilder, nicknamed Half-Pint. It’s the reason readers love her, despite the questions about some of Wilder’s cultural perspectives.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories

The Problem with Laura Ingalls Wilder: part 1, Legacy

By Megan Willome 21 Comments

Why was the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award renamed the Children’s Literature Legacy Award? It has to do with being eight years old.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories

Reading in the Wild: July’s Pages

By Megan Willome 7 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your July pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her July wild reads.

Filed Under: Blog, Literacy for Life, Reading in the Wild

Reading in the Wild: June’s Pages

By Megan Willome 17 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your June pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her June good reads.

Filed Under: Blog, Literacy for Life, Read for Fun, Reading and Books, Reading in the Wild

Teach It: 10 Terrific Little Red Riding Hood Tales

By L.L. Barkat 9 Comments

girl in the poppies

This summer, when you want to keep your emerging and early readers from going on a skill slide, it’s a great idea to explore the fun of fairy tales. And there’s no better place to start than with Little Red Riding Hood.

Filed Under: Blog, Fairytales, Teach It, Teach Reading

Take Your Poet to School Week: Mother Goose

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

Mother Goose Take Your Poet to School Week Cover

Even the mythical poets are getting in on the fun of Take Your Poet to School Week. Today, Mother Goose hops on a stick and makes her debut.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Poetry, Mother Goose, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Reading in the Wild: December’s Pages

By Megan Willome 22 Comments

Did your New Year’s resolutions include reading more? Join Megan Willome as she recounts her December wild reads and share your December pages.

Filed Under: Blog, Literacy for Life, Read for Fun, Reading and Books, Reading in the Wild

What’s In a Reading Nook?

By Bethany Rohde 13 Comments

Outdoor reading nook cattails by tree

Bethany Rohde and her children take their reading nook into the outdoors for a new light on their reading time together.

Filed Under: Books, Literacy Starts With Love, Reading and Books

Through the Looking Glass: Creative Writing Workshop

By Megan Willome 8 Comments

Wonderland Jakob Lawitzki

Children’s stories lead us into our most imaginative selves. Come kindle your curiosity, encourage your whimsy, spark your creativity, and find new ways to think and be, in this inspiring writing workshop that uses children’s stories, as well as grownup’s stories, to take you through the looking glass.

Filed Under: Blog, Workshops

5 Reasons You Should Read Aloud (Maybe Even to Your Pets!)

By Sharon A. Gibbs 12 Comments

Do you ever read aloud to friends and family, or even to a pet? Sharon A. Gibbs does and gives you 5 great reasons you should, too.

Filed Under: Children's Stories, Literacy, Literacy for Life, Literacy Starts With Love, Read

Reading in the Wild: October’s Pages

By Megan Willome 13 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your October pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her October good reads.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Children's Authors, Classic Books, Fiction, Literacy for Life, Reading in the Wild

Put a Little Song in Your Heart—with Latino Nursery Rhymes from Canticos

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

Put a little song—and a little Spanish—in your heart with these books based on Latino nursery rhymes from Canticos.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Interviews, Learn to Read, Literacy for Life, Literacy Starts With Love, Read for Fun

Reading in the Wild: September’s Pages

By Megan Willome 11 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your September pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her September goodreads.

Filed Under: Blog, Literacy for Life, Reading in the Wild

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