The 73rd National Book Awards were celebrated in New York last night and fun was had by all. The ceremony was hosted by Padma Lakshmi (Tomatoes for Neela, Taste the Nation on Hulu and Emmy-winner Top Chef on Bravo), event honorees included Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Tracy D. Hall, Executive Director of the American Library […]
Hannah Moskowitz’s A History of Glitter and Blood is singular and sad, a disordered, deeply personal history of interspecies conflict in the fairy town of Ferrum. It’s half story and half love letter, full of crossouts, digressions, and occasional stabs at seriousness (quotes from other, drier works, visual aids). Fairy girl Beckan and her tribe, boys Cricket, Josha, […]
It’s 2018, and we’ve all heard the phrase “New Year, New You”…but here’s the thing: being you is actually the best, because you’re the only you there could ever be! So instead of trying to reinvent yourself, why not read some nonfiction books to help yourself be the smartest, most interesting, well-informed person you could […]
For avid bookworms it can be easy to fall into a reading rut, sticking with the same author or genre for stretches at a time. No longer, friends, no longer. I beseech you to shrug off that dusty shroud of predictability and pry open the doors of something unexpected: graphic novels. If ever the thought […]
We’re entering a second Golden Age of comic books, folks, and that can only mean good things for children’s fiction. An overwhelming amount of scientific evidence says that comics can help increase vocabulary skills and spark a love of reading in young children. What’s more, some of the best new comics being published today are aimed […]