. . . Even in Australia

Recently, a YouTube video of a Scottish grandmother reading to her grandson went viral.  With her grandson, who was too young so sit up on...

Especially in this age of fake news and truthiness, it is harder than ever to teach a child the value of a white lie, the value of tact whic...

In honor of the ALA Youth Media Awards, which are being announced this morning, I came to school in a sparkly silver dress.  It has long sle...

On the eve, literally, of the announcement of the winners of the Caldecott and Newbery medals tomorrow morning, along with a slew of other a...

"Real dinosaurs didn't like attention.  They didn't want anyone to see them.  That's why Bolivar lived in the busiest city ...

Halloween is not my holiday.  Scary and, to me, morbid, I could happily skip the whole thing.  But most kids love it and so I decided to fin...

Finite funds and finite space necessitate that libraries weed their collections.  And when they do, they indicate which books they are remo...