Tag: Libraries

What we wouldn’t give for a few lifetimes in this place! There is a place in this world that has a complete Velociraptor skelleton, a page from the Guetenburg bible, and Sputnik all in one room. That place The Library of the History Human Imagination. This 3,000+ square foot...

Emmy and Oliver, written by Robin Benway, dives headfirst into choppy waters. Emmy and Oliver are best friends until they are seven years old, when Oliver disappears, kidnapped by his father. Cut to ten years later. Emmy’s life is restricted by her parents’ fear and she has never stopped...

Our kids made some great pieces of audio fiction. If you don’t like reading, fist donate to us and we’ll come show you how awesome reading is (if you’re wondering how awesome reading is, the answer is VERY). After you donate, you can scroll to the end of this...

Last weekend marked the end of Banned Books Week, the annual book readers’ celebration of drawing attention to the dangerous history of literary censorship. In 2014, the American Library Association (ALA) Office of Intellectual Freedom received 311 challenges. When an individual finds a book unacceptable for any reason, they...

Election season is just getting started and the likes of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders are starting to make noise with their idea about how to “fix” America. In the coming months we are going to hear a lot from them about jobs, taxes, and education. Some...

It’s that time of year.  The birds are chirping. The teachers are packing up their classrooms.  Trees and bushes are filling out, readying themselves for roles as home base or hiding place in epic hide-and-seek battles. The structure of your child’s day is beginning to look like a late-game...

The Batman movie came out in 1989 when I was eight-and-a-half-years old. I didn’t know who Batman was, but I saw the commercial and knew it was very important I see it. My parents were unsympathetic. It’s rated PG-13 for a reason, they said, and I cried in the...