It's not just my opinion. Studies show that access to diverse books positively impacts children's reading scores. This fabulous study from First Book explains this in detail.
Successful readers read widely, and that means reading all kinds of books.
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show me a writing AI that will cry while writing and maybe you'll convince me it can be a real author
Finch bird with trusty micropet by its side; she wants a job with a dictionary
girl me too
I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
My tweet from 2023: I asked if it was offensive to eat a Pop-Tart in front of the @PopTartsBowl mascot and then its handler yelled out "ITS THEIR DREAM" and then the mascot grabbed a Pop-Tart out of my hand and started force-feeding it to me while making soft grunting noises. Picture of me being fed a pop tart by a Pop tart
Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate
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One of the terrible things about the conservative elites’ attacks on higher education is that they are giving their constituents the impression that the universe isn’t big, complicated, and fascinating — that it really does take this many people to work out how even a small fraction of it works
The Bluesky Dictionary is tracking every single word used on the social media service. As of this writing, almost 40% of the dictionary has been covered, including recent additions like “boneshakers”, “microscale”, and “striations”. (via @gretchenmcc.bsky.social) [avibagla.com]
Four year olds are not too old for picture books. A beautiful book was turned down by someone in the shop yesterday due to the child being about to start school, and therefore "too old" for picture books.
Please don't force children to give up picture books too quickly.
#kidlituk
A photo of Watterson at his drawing table.
A panel of Calvin and Hobbes riding their radio flyer red wagon.
Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.
If you're reading this, whoever you are & whatever you're doing to try to make this world better, whether it's calling, protesting, providing mutual aid, making art, raising awareness, training & teaching people new concepts & skills, journalism, surviving through it all, or whatever else: thank you
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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this was a memorable read for me last year--definitely recommend
I fear this is also me.
Erasing books, libraries, museums is but a step in the erasure of people.
Protect these institutions at all costs to protect people.
Nothing like a good language joke to cleanse the timeline... 🥲
Book banners have lost court case after court case.
Because they’re lying to you.
www.dailytrib.com/2025/03/28/e...
I have heard so many newer writers—including extremely good ones!—bemoan that they think they're a failure because they might have to throw out a half-finished draft and start over.
Throwing out a draft is
a) very very normal and
b) progress, not failure.
That Sunday afternoon slide when you go from having big plans for the weekend to assessing the absolute minimum you can get away with doing.
a picture of a book text. The text says "Suetonius adds that, according to some reports, he said in Greek 'Kai su, teknon' (which Shakespeare turned into the Latin 'Et tu, Brute'. It literally means 'You too, child', but what Caesar may have intended by the words isnt clear. Tempest cites 'an important article' by James Russell (1980) 'that has often been overlooked'. Russel points out that the words kai su often appear on curse tablets, and suggest that Caesar's putative last words were not 'the emotional parting declaration of a betrayed man to one he had treated like a son' but more along the lines of 'See you in hell, punk'.
Once again loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words
#IdesofMarch 🗡️
Looks like we all need this yard sign, poster, bumper sticker, etc
just unbelievable--that's an incredibly popular and meaningful event for the community
Saturday WAIT
Cover of book "Picturing Black History" and profile photos of five authors, Treva B. Lindsey, Shawn Waldron, Baniele Edmeier, Melvin Barnes Jr., and Lonra Closeil
On Feb. 26 at Gramercy Books (Bexley, Ohio) don't miss the Picturing Black History book event--the book has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the Non-Fiction category! Co-sponsored by Zora's House. Register: history.osu.edu/events/pictu...
I work in higher ed, have a faculty spouse. What's happening at the federal level is beyond alarming. If you care about higher ed (and all the benefits of world-class research, like medicine, health, tech, etc.), you need to pay attention and SPEAK UP NOW. Do not take higher ed for granted. 🙏
I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency
We are facing the demolition of American higher education