Packed with recommendations for diverse and relatable books on topics such as immigration, adoption, body image, and gender/sexual identity, Melissa Hart’s Better with Books has proven invaluable to me as a library assistant and Book Aunt.
Guess who gets to spend the 2021-2022 school year working as a library assistant at her favorite middle school?
My 14-year-old was completely obsessed with this book for at least two days, so of course I had to read it to see what all the fuss was about.
My 14-year-old was completely obsessed with this book for at least two days, so of course I had to read it to see what all the fuss was about.
School’s back in session, which means I’m once again sneaking peeks at the books that cross my path courtesy of the kids at the local middle school library.
School starts on Wednesday, and guess who gets to start working in the library in-person again (at least for now)?
A Jonathan Swift poem? Norse mythology? A mistranslation from the Greek? Shoddy thatched roof craftsmanship? Where does the phrase “raining cats and dogs” come from anyway? (Part 2 of our 2-post investigation)
Happy Fourth of July!
Thatched roofs? Unsavory Elizabethan street sanitation practices? A 1652 Richard Brome play? Where does the phrase “raining cats and dogs” come from anyway?
While I was busy not blogging this month, it came to my attention that this blog is ten years old. Goodness. I thought it would be fun to mark its decade-aversary by revisiting a question post from the early days of the blog to see how well my answer has held up. Spoiler alert: Not well.
