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 »
The Chicago Public Library is giving away a million books. So what’s the catch? You must be a child.
This year, as part of its annual Summer reading initiative,“Rahm’s Readers Summer Learning Challenge,” the great and beautiful Chicago Public Library is giving away a whopping one million books. Now,… Read more »
New TV adaptation of classic children’s book to be less salacious than its source material
The Swallows and Amazons series is a classic of British children’s literature. Between 1930 and 1947, Arthur Ransome published twelve books in the series, which followed groups of children on… Read more »
School bus driver bans reading, because books are dangerous
It’s no secret that books are dangerous, and that they pose a threat young students. For every student whose life is saved by a book, there are dozens more innocent… Read more »