So I had this mama come in the library yesterday. She was checking out about 20 of our little beginning reader books - the very easiest ones with huge pictures and about three words to a page. She mentioned they were for her son who had just started reading. I asked how old he was and she said "He'll be four tomorrow."  WHOA!

I said "Your three year ( Read more... )

After spending much of 2007 posting online in forums and on MySpace and LJ, and reading little (other than children's books) besides that which came to me on my computer monitor, I decided to read more books for pleasure in 2008. Before becoming addicted to the net I always loved it. I mean, how else could I have survived with no net and no t.v. ( Read more... )

Success and happiness? I could use some of that in 2008!

I don't believe in astrology...really, or numerology...much, or tarot...often, but that doesn't stop me from checking out my horoscope when I come across it in a magazine or visiting the card readers on Jackson Square when I'm in New Orleans. Whatever I glean from these esoteric sources, I ( Read more... )

Earlier in the month I heard a report on NPR about the state of reading in America, and I thought that would be the perfect topic for my November newspaper article for the library. I just thought I'd post it here so anyone else interested in literacy could get a peek...

In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts conducted a study on the reading ( Read more... )