“I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.” ~ Dolly Parton Yellow and white were Dolly’s favorite colors (yellow = happiness, white = light and airy). Today we&#82…

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She performed old-time mountain music at the Silver Dollar City theme park in Branson, Mo., for more than 50 years and appeared on “The Beverly Hillbillies.”

A list of books about wildfires and forests requested by a summer school teacher who shared that her "students have been consumed by worries about wildfires."

“Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.” ~ E.B. White (Charlotte’s Web) It’s true when they say the books you read as a child stay with you …

Do you know how to use chopsticks? Do you have some in your cutlery drawer right now? Just as I can’t remember first feeding myself with a fork or spoon, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t …

The story of how a Racine book publisher became a runaway success with families.

“Food like donuts, Taco Bell, or ramen painted in ‘serious’ oil form creates a delicious tension with the nostalgia and light-heartedness of the subjects.” ~ Noah Verrier Wh…

Teaching you how to think like a librarian in the age of AI. Click to read Card Catalog, by Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Why books feel harder, what the science shows, and how to rebuild the capacity.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I swear, I know what the word doomscrolling means. After all, it’s been around since the twenty-teens, and was added to dictionaries several years ago now. I’ve regularly used the term, even in ess…

Happy National Library Lover’s Month! We’re happy to welcome back Virginia author Candice Ransom to discuss her new historical fiction picture book, Books On Horseback: The Packhorse Li…

What if magic glasses could allow us to see into each other’s imaginations? What if we watered the seeds of our ideas with curiosity to help them blossom into full-blown stories? Children’...

What if magic glasses could allow us to see into each other’s imaginations? What if we watered the seeds of our ideas with curiosity to help them blossom into full-blown stories? Children’...

Discover the latest children's books—picture books, middle grade, young adult and more

Calling All Book Lovers and Parents! Get ready for an incredible journey into the world of children's literature with our latest Reading with Your Kids podcast episode featuring two extraordinary auth...

Lately I’ve been encountering an issue related to our craft that’s eating at me and I can’t be silent about it anymore. If it bothers me I’ve decided it gets to bother all o…

I had been a school librarian and middle-grade reading teacher for 25 years when I read Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters, a professional title by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst, and it com...

#4: Come hungry! Here are 6 fun facts about Norway's national day.

I have been thinking so much about the war for my attention lately.  I bet it’s been on your mind, too. We’re all engaged in the battle, struggling with the tsunami of information, the onslaught of…