Helping Hands: Read Northwest Gives Students Essential 1-on-1 Reading Time
Check out how mentors are helping kids "learn to read, so that they can read to learn.”
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A Little Bit of Magic: Discovering Local Little Free Libraries Just in Time for Summer Reading
In neighborhoods all around Clark County, Little Free Libraries and summer reading are sparking the imaginations of readers young and old.
Book Nooks: Closing the Million-Word Gap
The heat of the attic overwhelmed me. Memories did, too. Tucked in plastic totes were myriad books we had read to our kids. Fun books like Dr. Seuss’s “Hop on Pop” or Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” mixed in with deeper stories
The New Domesticity: The Poetry of the Season
“October was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark
Dickens Children’s Books and Publishing Lab Inspires Kids to Explore, Discover and Create
Vancouver’s Uptown Village just got a lot cooler. Especially if you consider children’s literature cool, which the very cool Kari Ferguson, published author and owner of the new Dickens Children's Books and Publishing Lab, most certainly does. “I always wanted to write children’s
The New Domesticity: Revisiting the Classics
As I write, a well-worn copy of “Little Women” sits on my nightstand. A bookmark is tucked within its familiar pages, many of which are marked with light pencil checks or brief notes (I’ve found it helpful to translate a
The New Domesticity: The Promise of Soup
It was a dark, grey morning. The weight of the world seemed to rest on my pre-teen shoulders, and the last thing I wanted to do was catch a school bus. I peered out the window and sighed, “Do I