Lori Mortensen on The Best Stuff: Picture Book Biographies (plus a giveaway)
by Lori Mortensen I love picture book biographies. They’re right up there with chewy, chunky chocolate chip cookies. With those first delicious lines, I’m drawn into...
What is a Smarthome?
sdecoret/Shutterstock Any home can be a smarthome, whether it’s a studio apartment or a mansion. It’s the powerful connections that make it smart. Here’s what you...
Literary Tourism: Baltimore, Maryland
Discover bookish Baltimore: a city of literary delights! In 1987 the mayor of Baltimore dubbed it “the city that reads.” It may not be the best-known...
Great Books For The Writer In Your Life
Back in September, I went back to university to study creative writing. After decades of reading and a general sense that I should, at some point,...
Talking about THE FEATHER THIEF with Dawn Roberts of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Kirk Johnson’s The Feather Thief made several best of lists in 2018 (including mine) and resulted in a This American Life episode. While many focused on...
UNBROKEN Counters Stereotypes of Disabled, Teen Characters
Traditionally, disabled teenagers in fiction have been minor characters, symbols, or objects of fear or pity. This is why Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, a YA...
Low Visibility
Even in France, a country where protest is a cherished ritual of public life, the violence and vitriol of the gilets jaunes movement have stunned the...
The Book Catapult Stayed Open By The Grace of Its Competitors: Critical Linking, March 3, 2019
Sponsored by Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. He thought maybe he could help with the Book Catapult. He had worked there a few times...
Sony 4K HDTVs on sale for up to $400 off (and way cheaper than Amazon pricing)
Editor’s note: PCMag and Mashable are both owned by Ziff Davis. Is your old living room TV just not cutting it anymore? Are you embarrassed to...
3 gadgets on sale that will take your Nintendo Switch to the next level
Ever look at your Nintendo Switch and think to yourself “I wonder how I could turn this technological marvel into a devastating avatar of techno-superiority”? If...
