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 by […]
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”. bit.ly/3iZ26OV
https://www.wvlt.tv/2021/01/06/tennessee-announces-reading-360-initiative-to-improve-literacy/
https://www.registerguard.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/01/02/homer-odyssey-classic-not-something-ban-exclude/4092695001/
Librarian Takes Center Stage Play about race and a banned children’s book wp.me/p6YsyC-1RP #AlabamaStory
In 1931, 14-year-old Forrest J. Ackerman wrote a letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the banned book, Tarzan, informing him of an argument he had with his teacher regarding Edgar’s books. I love this! What a brilliant author to write a response that still speaks to people today.
Hardly any work of imaginative storytelling has stood as more enduring and full-bodied a testament to this ideal than Ray Bradbury’s 1953 masterwork Fahrenheit 451 — a love letter to books and to the people who care about them and, perhaps above all, to the very capacity for caring. This […]
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. This […]
The council action seeks to encourage more of the libraries, said Councilman Kolby Granville, who helped push for the new policy. Residents who build or purchase a little library can submit an application and receipts to the city for a reimbursement. The city set aside $10,000 in its budget for the program, which […]
DODEA officials have said implementing similar standards will make it easier for its students when they relocate to other military or public schools. The new standards are said to be more rigorous and easier to understand than current DODEA standards, the agency said. http://www.stripes.com/news/dodea-students-will-tackle-new-literacy-standards-in-grades-6-to-12-when-school-starts-1.425574
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