The Hundred Acre Wood is burning down as UK temperatures reach record highs
While my esteemed colleagues in the Melville House Brooklyn office are experiencing freezing conditions, in the UK we’re living through the hottest winter on record. It’s debatable as to when… Read more »
Is World Book Day becoming too expensive for parents?
When I was eight, I wore a box to school. Just for one day, mind—it was the inaugural World Book Day, in 1995, and I was dressed as Mr. Strong,… Read more »
Did you celebrate International Book Giving Day or Valentine’s Day on 14th February?
It was impossible to miss Valentine’s Day yesterday, that most romantic of occasions designed to pressure couples into purchasing over-priced gifts and appearing unrealistically loved-up. But did you know it was… Read more »
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library lands in Ireland
Country singer, philanthropist, and actual living legend Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a charity dedicated to giving free books to children, announced this week that she will be expanding the program to… Read more »
World’s most endearing woman returns library book 73 years later
A family of literature lovers committed a library crime—but they were met with an unexpected response. Upon returning a book that was almost 27,000 days overdue, Mora Gregg received interview requests… Read more »
McDonald’s to give away Roald Dahl books with Happy Meals
Fast food leviathans McDonald’s—already no strangers to combining books and burgers—announced this week that their New Zealand branches will replace Happy Meal toys with Roald Dahl books, as part of their latest global… Read more »
A new publisher wants to give away one free book for every book sold
This past year has seen quite a few initiatives dedicated to promoting and celebrating the act of reading. Public schools have tested out book vending machines and PBS launched the Great American… Read more »
A school in Buffalo, NY has a new book vending machine for kids
You’ve heard of Scholastic book fairs–now get ready for Scholastic book vending machines. The grand unveiling of the book vending machine came to the school library of Arthur O. Eve… Read more »
The newest combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell is Pizza Hut and NFL
If you were a student in the mid-eighties to nineties, you might remember the oft-sought coupon reward your elementary school teachers would bribe you with to encourage reading. The feeling… Read more »
A bus of books to be used to close literacy gap in Statesboro, Georgia
As part of an initiative to close the literacy gap in Bulloch County, Georgia, the Bulloch County School Board surveyed over 400 parents in the area about reading. According to… Read more »