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Kekla Magoon at the Allen County Public Library's Pontiac Branch in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Photo: Benita BrowningMy very first author presentation was in a library branch in my hometown, the Allen County Public Library’s Pontiac Branch in Fort Wayne, Indiana. My first book, The Rock and the River, had just...
I write, much of the time, from the perspective of a person who is not quite sure where home is. I am interested in figuring out how to make one.Home is a deceptively simple word. When those of us who work with children say it, we often assume it has...
Children's author Meg Medina finds inspiration in the family stories she heard as a child, which "opened inside of me a sense of cultural history that wasn’t reflected in any book I was reading in school or seeing on any of my favorite television shows."In an article from the January/February...
It’s been a topsy-turvy time in the education world recently: Common Core and high-stakes tests; then pushback; and now states are revising, revisiting, and renaming their standards. The recently passed ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) encourages this trend toward local choice. But if you look closely at the new standards...
I have come to believe that the books that influence us most are the ones we read at the impressionable ages of eight to twelve, the time when readers are most open to imagination and possibilities. It’s
the time, too, when our worldview is being formed, not only by experience...
While I know there must be many books that feature great scenes
set in libraries, one book that I’ve often thought about over the years is The Abortion (1971) by Richard Brautigan, whose narrator works in — and makes his home in — a public library whose shelves are filled...
The door is a place, real, imaginary and imagined. As islands and dark continents are. It is a place which exists or existed. The door out of which Africans were captured, loaded onto ships heading for the New World. It was the door of a million exits multiplied. It is...
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