Literacy, families and learning

An interest in Juvenilia As I have written already on this blog ( here ), children can begin to write from a very young age. While th...

  There was a time when everyone read short stories. While school primers and reading resources still make good use of collections of st...

I've written before about the importance of books that encourage children to make and do things. This is a revised version of a post I...

As a child I grew up in a home where books weren't read to or with me, so reading was not a pleasurable pursuit at home. It did hold c...

The Newbery & Caldecott awards for children's literature were announced on January 28th of this year. The Newbery Medal was name...