By Kitty Felde Writer Jenny Colgan loves books and loves reading. Books can change your life, she says, “always for the better.” In her novel The Bookshop on the Corner, she makes a massive list of her favorite places to read: The Bath. “Paperbacks are ideal,” she says, though she admits using her nose to […]
Young Readers: Reading for a Five Star Review
By Kitty Felde The warm-up assignment for my writing group was simple: write a book review for a novel that doesn’t exist. We all immediately put pen to paper, creating really awful reviews for even more awful books. We all rely on reviews. Not just book reviews to help us find our next great read, […]
How to Grow a Reader
By Kitty Felde It’s that time of year when we can almost feel spring in the air. Almost. It’s the time of year when many of us plan our gardens. One of the neighborhood kids is crazy about plants. Nothing gets him more excited than a packet of green bean seeds or a cutting from […]
Young Readers: Kindles, Kindles Everywhere
By Kitty Felde If I open the kitchen pantry door and there’s a bag of chocolate chips in there, I eat them. I can’t help it. On the other hand, if the bag of chips is stashed in the back of the shelf, I don’t bother to look for them. Out of sight, out of […]
Young Readers: Clean Off Your Bookshelves
By Kitty Felde We’ve watched the ball drop in Times Square, cheered on our favorite teams in the Peach, Fiesta, Cotton, Citrus, and Rose Bowl games, made and already forgotten our New Year’s Resolutions. But we get a second chance at starting the new year right: Chinese New Year is January 22. In the days […]
Innovative Design Inspires Reading
By Kitty Felde Most people visit art museums and monuments when they visit a new city. I visit libraries. I’ve visited a tiny community library in rural Oregon with its own vegetable garden and attended the grand reopening of a magnificent new library in Christchurch, New Zealand after a devastating earthquake destroyed the old one. […]
Young Readers: Why Should Dogs Have All the Fun?
By Kitty Felde There’s nothing like sharing a book with a friend. Especially if that friend has a tail and a lot of fur. Dogs are non-judgmental. They don’t criticize mispronounced words or sentences that take forever to finish. They just listen. Read-to-dog events have become part of regular programming around the country, including events at both […]