By Kitty Felde “It’s not that kids don’t like to read. It’s that they don’t like feeling like they’re forced to read.” That’s Eric Berman’s mantra. Berman is Teen Services Coordinator for the Alameda County Library in California. He says the key is getting reluctant readers hooked on something. Anything works, he says – comic books, graphic […]
Young Readers: Falling in Love Again: Top Five Questions to Ask a Kid About Reading
By Kitty Felde Perhaps I’m still thinking about Valentine’s Day, wondering about how we fall in love with another person. What is it about them that makes them irresistible? A much tougher question is: how do we get a kid to fall in love with reading? It’s hard enough to get a reluctant reader to […]
Longtime SW Resident Publishes Kids Book set on Capitol Hill
Exclusive Excerpt Provided to The Southwester By Mike Goodman Kitty Felde, who lived in River Park for nine years, covered Capitol Hill for public radio for nearly a decade. Now, she’s explaining Congress to a new generation of kids with a series of mystery novels set on Capitol Hill. On August 13, State of the Union was […]
Friends of SW Library Book Sale a Great Success
The Friends of the SW Library want to thank Southwest residents for your support at our March book sale. With your help, we earned enough money to pay for three months of programs at the SW Library and to contribute to the 2015 Summer Reading program! For those of you who are unfamiliar with us, […]
Friends of the SW Library Fall Book Sale!
The Friends of the Southwest DC Public Library will be holding its Fall Book Sale on Saturday, Oct. 18 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm and Sunday, Oct. 19 from 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm at the Southwest DC Public Library, 900 Wesley SW (at K & 3rd St SW). Books will be discounted and most will be $1. All proceeds for the sale will go directly […]
The SW Library: A Community Center for Southwest’s Future
With the community nearly united at both meetings organized by the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development (DMPED) in favor of a stand-alone library at the current site, we’ve been discussing approaches for the future. Always on the prowl for how to improve Southwest, the SW BID’s Steve Moore keyed us into a successful model in […]
SW Resident to be Featured at Virginia Book Festival
caption: Keya Chatterjee with her husband and their son Southwest resident Keya Chatterjee, and author of the book The Zero Footprint Baby, will be featured at the 20th Annual Virginia Festival of the Book. The Festival, which takes place March 19-23, 2014, is held in Charlottesville, VA. Ms. Chatterjee’s stories and experiences come largely from […]