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Beatrix’s inspiration for Peter, Cotton-tail, Flopsy, and Mopsy came from the picture letters she wrote to the children of one of her governesses, Annie Moore. Annie was not much older than Beatrix, and they became lifelong friends. It was Annie who suggested that she turn those letters into children’s books. Peter himself was modeled after her own pet rabbit, Peter Piper, and Benjamin Button, Peter’s cousin, was modeled after her pet rabbit Benjamin Bouncer (he was particularly fond of buttered toast)....
Comics continued to be the target of censors, as well as legal prosecution. When Friendly Frank’s comic shop in Lansing, Illinois, came under fire after a police officer deemed the owner to be selling obscene materials, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund developed and has since helped support comics creators, sellers, librarians, educators, and readers in protecting their right to access comics. The officer, Anthony van Gorp, utilized the dog whistle of the ’80s, claiming that in addition to obscenity, the shop was selling material of the satanic influence....
It has been almost two years since I decided that I needed more horror in my reading life and started my first forays into the genre. And now I’m here, writing you this, and that’s a bit surreal. It was actually dark fantasy that served as my soft intro to the horror genre: that beloved intersection of fantasy and horror. Sometimes horror is zombies and ghosts, sometimes it’s unholy magics, twisted monsters, and vengeful gods....
A TBR meaning, for me For me, when I talk about my TBR books, I’m specifically talking about those many hundreds of books that I own but haven’t read. I keep a Goodreads inventory list because I’ve too often bought duplicates of these books, but the physical books (or digital books on my iPad) are my TBR. Also, I don’t plan out what I’m going to read next, aside from the books with pressing deadlines like library books or digital galleys that will expire....
On the flip side, though, Millennials have also been reading more than previous generations, are changing the definition of classics to be more inclusive, and are the most likely generation to use libraries. Millennials are eating their avocado toast while advocating for better representation in their reading and using the incredible resources their tax money pays for. While much has been studied about how Millennials engage in the literary world, little has been explored when it comes to Generation Z and their connections to reading and libraries....
Before we begin, a quick note: you can do this with anyone on Goodreads, so long as the information is shared. This means, there doesn’t need to be a mutual friend connection between you to compare your reading. (So, yeah, you can totally find out if you and your crush have compatible reading habits without having to ask outright. Maybe use this information to gift them a book as a token of your affection?...
I’ve been reading books for what feels like as long as my arm muscles could support them, but it’s only been since reaching early adulthood that I’ve equated finishing books with feeling productive and worth it. In high school, I read constantly, but it was not unlike me to take months to finish a single book. I read when I felt like it, and didn’t read when I didn’t feel like it....
First, I tore through volumes 4 and 5 of Lumberjanes. I’d fallen knock-me-in-the-junk in love when I’d read the first volume at the end of 2016 and, while volumes 2 and 3 hadn’t given me the same high, I really dug these latest two volumes. They made me excited for the forthcoming sixth one. And then, because I have trouble falling asleep when I’m on a reading roll (the opposite of a reading slump), I cracked open volume 1 of Rat Queens, which had been published several years ago....
Yoga life coaching is one area of life coaching, which encompasses so many different arenas. Unlike therapy, coaching is about where you are in the moment. It relies on right now, as opposed to working to uncover things from the past that lead to the patterns you’re using right now; this is why it’s often a fabulous complement to therapy. Our brains aren’t hardwired, and it’s our neuroplasticity that allows us to change the ways we think about things as we work to untangle the patterns we are used to in order to build new ones....
Kindle App As easy as that is, there’s an easier way. Both Mac and PC have Kindle apps available in their respective app stores, which streamline the installation process. Once the app is installed, open it up, sign in, and there are all your Kindle books! Double clicking on a book will fire off the download and immediately open the book for reading. The app provides Notes and Highlights, bookmarking, freely hopping around the book, and a variety of settings for your reading pleasure....
We did some very scientific research to find the best ways to remove stickers from books. We tested a bunch of methods, and maybe one of these will work for you. Oh, a word of caution: Please pay attention to the cover treatment used on the book you’re trying to de-sticker. If it has a matte/soft-touch/velvet-y feel, the grease and goo from the sticker will probably not budge. If it’s a more paper-y cover, be careful with how many liquids you use to get the sticker off, or you may strip the cover right off....
The character, who could have been played by any actor of any race, doesn’t have any family (his mother has died), does gig work for an app that provides helpers (because he likes to help people), and when he arrives in New Hampshire with his white BFF to spend Christmas with his white family in the whitest state in the country (okay, maybe that’s Rhode Island), is immediately corralled into doing free labor…and then does it again, and again....
The more I talk about books, the more I’ve discovered that there are People Who Don’t Read, there are People Who Do Read, and then there are Readers. Me? I’m a Reader. Reading is my superpower! I devour books; mow them down like Pac-Man throwing back glowy little nourishing Pac-Dots, trying to squeeze out more reading time while evading responsibilities the way Pac-Man dodges ghosts. And for me, those Power Pellets beckoning from the corner of the screen that will let me torpedo my responsibilities for a while—those suckers are readathons....
When I was around my nephew’s age, I discovered some of my favorite books — Artemis Fowl, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and anything by Rick Riordan. When I think about these books on audio, I remember this time as when the world seemed to open up before me through the voices coming from my boom box. Nick and I share our enthusiasm for middle grade novels, always happy to sit for hours playing video games and discussing our favorite books....
It started in a bar and was all fun and games in the early 2000s when Travis Garone and Luke Slattery decided to bring back the no-longer-trendy mustache. When they realized that getting people to grow a mustache created conversation, they decided it could be used for a good cause. So they decided to use it to raise money for Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) and they’ve never stopped since....
Here are 15 #ownvoices picture and board books that speak about Native American tradition and culture that every child needs in their library. You can also find more picture books here. 15 Native American Books for Children
“‘Rarely is girl culture, for lack of a better term, taken seriously,’ Bessette said. ‘It provides a valuable window and insight into the values of the time and the tastes of the time and into the cultural messages we were receiving that for better or worse helped shape who we are today. These are really important questions that have often been ignored because they aren’t taken seriously — “That’s just girl culture or frivolous or less than....
But although nobody gives me collections of folktales for holidays any longer (boo), I have never fallen out of love. Last year, Archipelago released a collection of Inea Busnaq’s translations from Najla Jraissaty Khoury’s Pearls on a Branch, Lebanese and Syrian folktales told by women. I bristled with glee as I read these stories. They delighted both me-as-adult (who understood them in a new way) and the me-as-young-reader who had loved Arab Folktales so much....
