Children's book reviewer and teacher Ed Spicer conveys his enthusiasm for book culture and reflects on building the foundation of a reading life.
A visit to The Cloisters in New York City is cause to reflect on the different fates of the Portuguese and Catalan languages.
I help Lego builder "brickplate" (Sid Dinsay) install his model of St. Patrick's Cathedral at the Lego Store in Rockefeller Center.
A report on Comic Arts Brooklyn, where publishers large and small showed off their comics and graphic novels and the CBLDF pushed its anti-censorship efforts.
A list of world music from Africa, Latin America, and the British Isles played on WRPI's "Mostly Folk" on November 3, 2013.
At the University of Connecticut I shared my experiences of growing up "different" and offered advice to both young writers and future teachers.
Rather than telling how a character feels, or what the reader should think, the writer creates an image and lets the reader draw conclusions.
Details are important, and a story with a well-drawn and well-integrated setting cannot take place anywhere else.
Adults may have to put aside their own prejudices and preferences to help kids who are the targets of bullies.
In contrast to linear, chronological narrative, a layered narrative plays with time sequence to reveal character bit by bit and to build curiosity and suspense.