For decades, summer reading challenges have helped keep children engaged while school is out. But in the last several years, more and more bookstores and literary organizations have expanded their challenges to adults, tapping into a passion for reading and a desire for community.
The Shakespeare Exhibition Hall in the Folger Shakespeare Library has a fascinating treasure—a huge, detailed fictional map that depicts more than 140 characters from all of Shakespeare’s plays.
As Christmastime approaches, few novelists come to mind as readily as Charles Dickens, mainly because of his book A Christmas Carol and even more so because of its many adaptations, most of which draw inspiration from not just its text but also its illustrations.
Every Christmas Eve, Icelanders give books as holiday gifts. They call this tradition Jólabókaflóð (Jolabokaflod) or the Christmas book flood. It’s believed that every Icelander receives at least one book for Christmas every year. Here’s more on this literary tradition and why the world’s third most literate nation loves books so much.
Rebind, an AI-driven ebook platform, aims to make classic literature more accessible to readers by offering personalized commentary from a distinctive team of scholars and authors (referred to as “Rebinders”), who turn reading into a transformative experience.
Where do you begin when you are looking for a new book to incorporate into your classroom or school library? Or when you need to defend a book from challenge? The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) provides a book rationale database for educators and school librarians to use in selecting and defending books.
Educators are invited to join more than 25 panels with 45-plus authors, publishing professionals, and experts on book bans and the First Amendment for EveryLibrary Live! Banned Books Week 2024. This free online festival will feature conversations about the joy of writing, the culture of reading, the challenges of censorship in schools and libraries, and the celebration of the freedom to read.
The 24th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held in Washington, DC, on Saturday, August 24. The event is free and open to the public. In the days leading up to the event, teachers and students can join PBS Books on social media for theLibrary of CongressNational Book Festival Virtual Author Talk Series.
You Are Here, Ada Limón’s signature project as the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, champions the ways reading and writing poetry can situate us in the natural world.
“Call me Ishmael” is the legendary first line of Moby-Dick, but the protagonist’s name is hardly the most famous in Herman Melville’s 1851 novel. He’s probably a distant third to both Captain Ahab and the eponymous whale itself, which was based on a real albino sperm whale named Mocha Dick.