It has become increasingly evident that the Banned Books Awareness column must rise and once again light the darkness of censorship.As most readers are aware by now, the award-winning graphic novel, Maus, has been at the center of a massive censorship effort in McMinn County, Tennessee.I was contacted today...
Today is the start of #NationalStorytellingWeek. What will you be sharing? I will start with the short I did for the charity anthology, “Mythic Indy”. https://bit.ly/3iZ26OV
“For all the talk about inalienable human rights and guaranteed freedoms, the only true freedom is the freedom of thought. The moment you are able to read an entire universe of wonder and possibility opens up to you. No longer will you be confined to the dark, subjugated to...
Inspired by the success of Pokémon Go, a Belgian primary school headmaster has developed an online game for people to search for books instead of cartoon monsters, attracting tens of thousands of players in weeks. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/belgians-are-hunting-books-instead-of-pokemon/ar-BBw6N9W?ocid=st The perfect, and logical, progression of Little Free Libraries on a larger scale....
A simple idea is having an extraordinary impact on literacy and local communities: take a book, leave a book. Students walk up, open the door of a dollhouse-sized wooden box, and take a book. They can keep it, return it, or replace it with one which they have already...
The countdown is on and the last of my stock has arrived for the Michigan Book Bash. In addition to my books I will have The Ultimate Ghost Hunter’s Toolkit, a CD with a case library of evidence from Michigan ghost hunting investigations that includes digital copies of both...
From the big book of forgotten English words that need to make a comeback! There have been only a few recorded uses of this one.
“A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” – Carl Sagan
Today is World Book Day!!
Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss! Today is also #ReadAcrossAmerica Day! Read, learn, live!