7 Must-Read Children’s Halloween Books These picture books about Halloween will delight your kids without frightening them. Halloween is a huge deal at my house. My kids love dressing up year-round, and the combination of dressing up and free candy is almost too much for them to handle. I like Read more
When is Your Kid Ready for Harry Potter? A Guide for Getting Started “You’re a wizard, Harry.” As a bibliophile and a parent, you’re so eager for the day your kid is ready to read those words and enter the wizarding world of Harry Potter. But along with fanciful components Read more
The English Language’s Most Successful Export Is A Joke Here’s a quiz: let’s say you’re setting off to see the world and aside from please and thank you in a smattering of languages you pretty much only know English. What is the one word that most of the people you encounter will also know? Read more
August’s Best New Fiction This month’s best new work includes the second book of the Half-Drowned King Viking fantasy trilogy, a portrait of a Midwest town in decline, a debut roman à clef by an Iraq veteran currently imprisoned for bank robbery, and a historical about the Black Plague. And for lighter, Read more
WHY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE AMAZING They may not exactly be socialism, but they’re a model of good publicly-run institutions. by NATHAN J. ROBINSON f you wanted a single article to demonstrate why millennials object to the prevailing “neoliberal” economic ideology, it would be this piece in Forbes: “Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Read more
The Book Is (Almost Always) Better Than The Movie It’s undeniable that a book original usually blasts its movie version out of the water. But why is that so? Below, six reasons books almost always take the cake. Filmmakers, consider this your cheat sheet for bringing book-based movies more up Read more
What does the “D” in D-Day mean? This is the most frequently asked question by visitors to The National WWII Museum. Many people think they know the answer: designated day, decision day, doomsday, o reven death day. Our answer, like many answers in the field of history, is not so Read more
Lucky Penny Day A saying goes, “Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you’ll have good luck.” This is really just a modern take on an old superstition. In ancient times, people often thought that metals were gifts from the gods. They thought that metal would bring Read more
IF YOU NEED A REASON TOCELEBRATE Today is National Maritime Day, Harvey Milk Day, and International Day for Biological Diversity count me in NATIONAL MARITIME DAYCreated by the United States Congress in 1933, National Maritime Day is a holiday that both honors and celebrates the Merchant Marine. (It also commemorates Read more
I Don’t Remember The Title, But The Cover Was Blue I don’t remember the title, but the cover was blue. Another winning display by Teresa Templeton, Assistant librarian at the Corinth Public Library.