Month: October 2014

Virginia Woolf focused on the life of an "ordinary" woman, when she wrote Mrs. Dalloway. Like James Joyce's Ulysses (published just a few ...

The Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown, was published long before I was born (1942), but it's one of the ...

These are the works of literature that may inspire the horrified expressions on the faces of students (when they realize ...

I find myself getting into more and more debates related to our education system-particularly related to reading and writing. We're ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith, fell into my hands at a time when I needed it most ...

If you've read The Velveteen Rabbit, you likely remember the first time you picked up the book, the reading process, ...

Do you remember a time when you could just curl up with a book and read a book--without worrying about ...

As I think (and write) about my favorite books, my memories of reading, and how all of that has affected ...

I grew up on stories and legends. I remember the well-worn book of fairy tales that I kept under my ...

The Little House series, from Laura Ingalls Wilder, is one of the most memorable bookish experiences in my life. My ...