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 I wrote Part I of Raise a Reader on February 25, 2010 on this website.  Being a reader, and knowing how important reading is, I decided to write “Raise a Reader! Part II.” Reading is something I enjoy and is something I feel good about.  When I am relaxed and at ease, there is nothing […]

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Tags: Children and Reading, Kids and Reading, Reading

The 15th annual South Carolina Book Festival will be held May 14 and 15, 2011 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in downtown Columbia, SC.   I have been to 3 of the festivals and I truly enjoy the event.  Each year the festival seems to get bigger and better.
Information that I received from the sponsoring […]

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Written as a letter to his daughter’s, Malia and Sasha, the forty-forth president of the United States Barack Obama’s new book, of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters is a wonderful way to introduce children to a few of the great individuals who have helped shape our country.  With a target audience of 4 […]

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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Billie Holiday, Cesar Chavez, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington, Georgia O'Keefe, Helen Keller, Jackie Robinson, Jane Addams, Loren Long, Maya Lin, Neil Armstrong, of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, Sitting Bull

“The Boy Who Changed the World” written by author and corporate speaker Andy Andrews and illustrated by British illustrator Philip Hurst, is a recently released children’s inspirational & motivational book.
“The Boy Who Changed the World“  uses an interesting, yet easy to understand, method of weaving together several lives to tell how each of the characters […]

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Tags: Henry Wallace, Norman Borlaug, Philip Hurst, The Boy Who Changed the World, The Butterfly Effect

Health care has definitely been in the news lately.  It has definitely been THE most controversial item in the news.  And it has certainly been a hot topic with my fellow “Facebookers” in the last few days as well.
As a booklover, I found a very interesting item related to our President, Barack Obama, and a speech he […]

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Tags: Book Stores, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Health Care, Iowa City, New York Times, Prairie Lights Books, Robert Gibbs

I picked up my local newspaper (The State, Columbia,SC) and was happy to see a headline on the front of one of the sections that read “Raising a Reader”.  Reading has been such an important part of my life, and I’ve enjoyed it so much, that it is very important to me that my 7 […]

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Tags: NEA, Read Across America Day, RIF

I am a constant book store shopper, both “in-store” and “online”.  I like to keep up with what is really selling and I also like to come across those quiet little books that have made their way on to the book store shelves, but will never be a bestseller (unlesss it is an amazing story […]

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Well, it is that season - that season that rolls around every four years when we get to elect a new President.  I love politics and am really enjoying this week as we have the Democratic National Convention.  I am a Democrat so I am truly enjoying the speeches and enthusiasm of the convention.  Of course, […]

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Thanks to “Shelf Awareness” for the following information concerning the NAIBA Book of the Year Award Winners….
Fiction: Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (Algonquin). NAIBA commented: “Often compared to To Kill a Mockingbird, Hillary Jordan’s debut novel, Mudbound, is told in riveting personal narratives by the individual members of the McAllan and Jackson families. . . . […]

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For those of us to whom books and reading are a major part of our life, it is almost hard to believe that there are people who do not have much or any access to books.  It is especially frustrating to think of children who do not have books.  My 5 year old’s room is […]

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