Today is Opening Day for The Needlework Show. This is an online wholesale trade show that is open for public viewing and participation. Wholesale open to the public?! How is that possible? […]

On Sunday, the Anchorage Public Library hosted the Bookmark Make-It-Take-It sponsored by Arctic Needle, Funk & Weber Designs, and the Arctic Needleworkers embroidery guild. Members of the community, some with stitching experience […]

I am a member of a number of library and children’s literature listservs. CCBC-Net is a listserv encouraging awareness and discussion of ideas and issues critical to literature for children and young […]

What else is on my mp3 player? The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier. Prodigal Summer is still on my nightstand. A book is the only place in which you can examine a […]

What’s on my mp3 player? Dave at Night, by Gail Carson Levine. There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, […]

Reading Is Fundamental is the oldest and largest children’s and family literacy nonprofit organization in the US. Through community volunteers in every state and U.S. territory, RIF provides 4.5 million children with […]