Good Comics for Kids
February 26, 2018 by Betsy Bird
Every year I reveal the bookmarks released in conjunction with that most honorable and long lasting children’s literature tradition, Children’s Book Week. Originally established in 1919 (which, obviously, means that next year there’s going to be a great big party to celebrate the centennial), Children’s Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the […]
March 7, 2017 by Betsy Bird
Folks, it is my very great pleasure today to present to you today with the Children’s Book Week Bookmarks of 2017. Featuring art from the illustrious pens and paints of Ekua Holmes, Yuyi Morales, LeUyen Pham, and Sonja Wimmer, you can thank Every Child a Reader (a nonprofit literacy organization dedicated to inspiring a love […]
March 14, 2016 by Betsy Bird
Books. Kids. This is pretty basic stuff. One should read the other. Preferably requently. And I suppose that for some of us there’s a perception that urging children to read is a recent phenomenon. An outgrowth of the digital age when kids have so many things to distract and entertain them. Gone are the days […]
March 15, 2011 by Betsy Bird
All right, kids. If there’s a holiday for children’s literature out there, the closest possible equivalent would have to be Children’s Book Week, am I right? What’s that? You have no idea what Children’s Book Week is? You’re probably not alone. In my time as a children’s librarian I’ve been vaguely aware of it. It […]
Politics in Practice
by John Chrastka
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