After reading about the November mayoral election in Hope Was Here and possibly learning about Wisconsin ’s spring, nonpartisan elections ...

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This kid didn't need explosions to sell hot dogs. I love football season, a fact that is no secret to anyone who knows me.  But along...

In the trailer for the upcoming (I think it’s still upcoming, anyway) children’s literature documentary Library of the Early Mind , author M...

At the crossroads of education, technology, and personal websites, you sometimes find things like accidental blog posts.  So as I demonstrat...

Take eight children.   Place children together in a living room, bedroom, or basement containing a television and DVD player.   Provide frid...

For as much as I liked The Hunger Games and Catching Fire , I’m unsure if I can say the same about Mockingjay .   Instead of immediately fe...

The Hunger Games is one of a handful of books from recent years that I would immediately identify as one of my favorites.   Catching Fire ...

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An alternate history.   A possible future.   Regardless of how you look at Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld , the conclusion is this: Whoa, co...

The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Vesper Two that day. The score stood eight to one, with but one inning left to play. The old man...

Just past the title page of Amy Krouse Rosenthal ’s latest book, readers see “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 … Wonder Book” and get a glimpse of the cre...

What follows is a tale of communication and miscommunication, of messages both shared and forgotten, with a touch of childhood ingenuity, a ...

It is Friday, October 19, 1962.   Eleven-year-old Franny wonders why her teacher skips her during read aloud time.   She wonders why Jimmy, ...

In the introduction to Funny Business , the first genre-specific volume from the Guys Read Library, Jon Scieszka quotes E. B. White.  “Humo...

So I like music. That's been true forever, and it's no secret to those who know me. Recently some friends and I made an agreement. N...

When you’re the new kid in fifth grade, the last thing you want is to draw any negative sort of attention on the first day of school. So whe...

Calvin Coconut used to have a dog, a beagle named Chewy. That was before his dad, Little Johnny Coconut, left Hawaii and moved to Las Vegas ...