It's no wonder the inimitable New York Public Library is looking to North Carolina State University's Hunt Library for innovation inspiration. The place is magnificent. #1 on our annual Summer Adventure List is the Hunt Library. It didn't disappoint. The boys and I … [Read more...] about Hunt Library is Spectacular
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Tequila Mockingbird – 5:00 Fridays TM
You know what I love more than a great cocktail? A great book. Now if you combine the two, I might just crumble in awe at your feet. Tim Federle, sorry about the crumbled mess I just left at your feet. In the last week I've had the luxury of devouring four books. … [Read more...] about Tequila Mockingbird – 5:00 Fridays TM
Reading The Little Prince to My Little Princes
Every night the boys and I curl up on the couch or on Deal's bed, always Deal's bed for some reason, to read. Bird is 10, and Deal is 8. I know our time to read together is limited. They still enjoy the voices and inflections I use in read-alouds. Oh, they roar and groan and roll … [Read more...] about Reading The Little Prince to My Little Princes
A Book Brought Me to Tears
I knew I should have taken off my mascara before settling in to read last night. I wrote this promptly after reading to my sons and tucking them in. Bird goes to sleep with a book within reach, and Deal goes to sleep surrounded by a menagerie of stuffed friends. These boys of … [Read more...] about A Book Brought Me to Tears
Raising a Reader
My Bird is a reader. He inhales books as he inhales air, gasping for just one more as he turns the last page. At any given moment his nightstand holds a teetering pile of books, Sports Illustrated Kids from last fall that he simply cannot bear to part with, and some tattered old … [Read more...] about Raising a Reader
Toasting Art and Ray Bradbury – 5:00 Fridays
First Maurice Sendak, now Ray Bradbury. There's one hell of a happy hour going on in a library in heaven right now. It's fitting that Ray Bradbury died on the same day I learned of art being discounted at my sons' school (literally and figuratively banished to the basement, or … [Read more...] about Toasting Art and Ray Bradbury – 5:00 Fridays
