World Book Day/Read Across America Day
Happy World Book Day and Read Across America Day! What are you reading?
Banned Books Awareness and Reading for Knowledge
Lowering the Number of Illiterate Adults
Literacy Volunteers Look to Lower Number of Illiterate Adults – bit.ly/2lVlXAN
Speak up
Words from 1996 that still ring true today, when those who speak of free will are censored by the state. #subversion
Before Amazon, We Had Bookmobiles: 15+ Rare Photos OfLibraries-On-Wheels
Before Amazon, We Had Bookmobiles: 15+ Rare Photos Of Libraries-On-Wheels | bit.ly/2kJi5Sj
Literacy skills key to success
An excellent article from The Guardian last December. The numbers are just as high in the United States and the impact on current and future generations is just the same. https://sencanada.ca/en/sencaplus/opinion/literacy-skills-key-to-success
Celebrate Cyrus the Great Day
Today is Cyrus the Great Day. #declaration #humanrights Read Learn, Love at m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1031833 shared via UniShare on Windows R. Wolf Baldassarro
Letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan, informing him of an argument he had with his teacher regarding Edgar’s books
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.
Shakespeare Festival wants a banned books display banned
Oh, the irony. Staff of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival are not allowed to shop at a local bookstore because of the store’s banned books display. http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20160805/NEWS/160809755/-1/archive
What is history, but a fable agreed upon
“What is history, but a fable agreed upon”- Napoleon
From Comics to College, Censorship is a Weapon of Fear
There is a growing epidemic among the youth of America. It starts during the grade-school years, when parents curtail the development of critical thinking and free will in their children, conditioning them to believe that the world does and will always coddle their fragile sense of self. They are taught […]