It’s not easy to command the attention of a room full of squirmy 5th graders, but when R.L. Stine speaks, kids listen. Best known for writing the hugely popular Fear Street and Goosebumps series, which have have terrified generations of young horror fans, Stine is writing a new series of Fear Street novels—which gives us all good reason to celebrate […]
I confirmed something this week: even though I’m now a college-educated adult, R.L. Stine still has the capacity to give me the willies. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore, the master of young adult chills has returned with the second book in his reboot of the Fear Street […]
To celebrate Halloween, we asked our bloggers to name the scariest books they’ve ever read, and most of them got the heebie-jeebies just thinking about their answer. They explored the deepest, darkest parts of their minds to recall that story still haunting them today. We recommend these horrifying books with caution—they could make you sleep […]
I’ve never read Beowulf. But I do know it’s a “tale of high adventure, fights with monsters, and great courage” because I have read Wishbone‘s Beowulf, otherwise known as Be A Wolf! For similar reasons, I still picture Quasimodo as a hunchbacked Jack Russell terrier, thanks to Hunchdog of Notre Dame. In fact, I’ve made it through entire adult […]
The addictive new program Orange is the New Black, based on the 2011 memoir by Piper Kerman, humanizes the setting of a women’s correctional facility. It’s easy to binge watch this “guilty fish-out-of-water” series and wonder, How would I react to a prison stint? Now, clearly, prison is a dehumanizing and horrendous experience that, in […]
