Besides being fun for you and your child, reading books aloud together provides many cognitive benefits. Reading aloud sharpens attention skills since children follow the inflections of your voice, take in the illustrations on the page, and decode the text. They are also simultaneously weaving those elements together to develop an understanding of the story, the characters, and how the text...
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Read It First! Movie Adaptations in Theaters This Month
It feels good to be back! After 19 months, films are once again back in theaters! It’s time for this blog to return to its original purpose, to let you know about new film adaptations as they hit the big (and small) screen.
Interview With an Author: Simon R. Green
Simon R. Green is the New York Times best-selling author of more than sixty science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels.
Interview With Alicia Maher
Hilda Guerrero, Librarian, Science, Technology, & Patents Department , Wednesday, September 29, 2021
El Salvador, affectionately called el pulgarcito de America (the little thumb of America) due to its status as the smallest country in Central America, doesn’t usually receive the recognition it deserves, especially not in the culinary sphere.
Interview With Zine Maker - Suemi Guerra
Suemi Guerra is an educator and zinemaker. She is also the author of the fictional zine, Suicidal Goldfish. She is currently working on the fiction zine Las Fakes.
Interview With an Author: Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter is a songwriter and novelist from Moscow, Idaho.
Read it First - Banned Books on the Big Screen
Every year during the last week of September, the American Library Association and libraries everywhere celebrate Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week promotes freedom of expression, freedom of access to information, and the freedom to read.
7 Latinx Movies to Watch this Weekend
Cinema, like every other form of artistic expression, is a mirror for the society in which it is born. Each cinematic experience offering a glimpse into the world of the Ajeno, the world of another.
Interview With an Author: Cadwell Turnbull
Cadwell Turnbull is a graduate from the North Carolina State University’s Creative Writing M.F.A. in Fiction and English M.A. in Linguistics. Turnbull is also a graduate of Clarion West 2016.
Interview With an Author: Sara Nisha Adams
Sara Nisha Adams is a writer and editor. She lives in London and was born in Hertfordshire to Indian and English parents.