Libraries & Literacy

4+ hour, 55+ min ago   (165+ words) Join the wonderful Tor Freeman for her Saturday morning StoryTime takeover on 17 October at 10.30am. She’ll be reading from her soon-to-be-published book, Pomona: Stories of the Cat Witch, and then showing attendees how to draw her endearing characters with a draw-along....

36+ min ago   (650+ words) The judge sided with authors on a key procedural question, clearing the way for a First Amendment fight over Utah's book removal process. A federal judge in Utah ruled Tuesday that authors and students suing over the state's book-banning law…...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (197+ words) Instead of letting a growing reading list collect dust, Headway gives you a quicker way to work through the ideas inside those books. Right now, lifetime access is 83% off. TL;DR: Headway turns bestselling non-fiction books into short, easy-to-digest summaries,…...

7+ hour, 49+ min ago   (198+ words) The Friends of the John C. Hart Library will hold its annual book sale from Friday, Sept. 25, through Monday, Sept. 28, offering a wide selection of books and media for all ages. The sale will feature fiction, nonfiction and media, along with…...

5+ hour, 39+ min ago   (481+ words) The SHC Quarterly Book Club will meet Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center (SHC) to discuss Matt Haig’s “The Midnight Library.” This popular book club novel centers around an unusual library filled with books of…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago   (130+ words) cbc.ca These libraries are on thin ice. So the Heated Rivalry author stepped in Five libraries in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley are keeping their doors open a little longer thanks to a little love from Heated Rivalry author Rachel…...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (421+ words) Published 1:58 pm Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Well I’m in my 60s now, and yet I can still remember the excitement I felt as a kid,getting my very first library card. It was blue and paper, and a far cry from the modern…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago   (392+ words) I was 10 when my last name electrified my teacher with excitement. I was from New Jersey, of course, but that’s not what he meant. “I’m Puerto Rican.” “You’re a minority!” Expo marker in-hand, he dove spirit-first into a lesson about…...

1+ hour, 54+ min ago   (985+ words) publishersweekly.com World Kid Lit Month 2026: A Walk Through Bruno Munari’s ‘In the Fog of Milan’ Riccardo Vecchio is an artist and the chair of the MFA in illustration as visual essay at the School of Visual Arts....

5+ hour, 16+ min ago   (140+ words) Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A New Hampshire library said a patron will not have to pay a $12,055 fine for returning a magazine checked out 132 years earlier. The Conord Public Library said a man named John recently came in to return a September…...