Celebrate the Birthdays of Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling!
It’s a double birthday! J.K. Rowling was born July 31, 1965, in Bristol, England. From the stories that Rowling tells …
Trouble in Comic Land
Comic-Con has come and gone but challenges to comic books/graphic novels continue. Challengers have recently complained about two renowned graphic …
Build Your Stack: It Takes a Village: Books That Remind Us Who We Are and Who We Are Becoming
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,™ a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and …
A Storytime Activity for Everyone Loves Bacon
This post was guest-authored by children’s librarian AnnMarie Hurtado. I recently published a book to help children’s librarians enhance …
Build Your Stack: Bringing Voices of Authors into Classroom Discussions around Books
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,™ a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge …
Build Your Stack: Read-Aloud Recommendations
NCTE’s members are readers—for themselves as they seek to grow their professional knowledge, and for their students as they seek …
Say That To My Face: On Teaching and Learning Diverse Literature for Empowerment and Transformation (Or, On Feeling Itchy)
This post is excerpted from a Voices from the Middle article by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich. The more books there are, …
One Story, One Book Banning: Persepolis
Recently, my book club read and discussed Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel memoir of her childhood during the Islamic Revolution. …
Surprise Summer Reads Via the Mathical Book Prize
This blog was guest authored by Candice Price, Elizabeth Bird, and Rebecca Goldin. You can sometimes find great summer …
Authors Speak Out on Reading without Censorship
No one knows better the importance of reading than the authors of the books we want our students to read. …