BNA_Daily | March 1, 2010
Tuesday, March 2nd, is Dr. Seuss’s birthday, and the National Education Association (NEA) invites you to celebrate with Read Across America! Read Across America is an annual event promoted by teachers, librarians, bookstores, politicians, and celebrities across the country to get kids excited about reading. The NEA website and various reading blogs give tons of [...]
BNA_Daily | February 12, 2010
With President’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Chinese New Year, and the Winter Olympics all happening this weekend, parents might find themselves answering a lot of questions! That’s why we’ve dug up book recommendations for every subject, so you’ll be prepared when your child asks you to explain curling or name all of our country’s presidents.
PRESIDENT’S DAY
The [...]
K_Ramsdell | February 11, 2010
There really is such a thing as having too many choices; and when I had to decide what to write about this month, that was precisely my dilemma. Although February is the shortest month of the year, it is certainly one of the busiest. (Actually, I’m waiting for August to reach across the calendar and [...]
BNA_Daily | December 1, 2009
Now that the holiday season has officially begun, we have gift book suggestions for you and a list of best Thanksgiving picture books. And for fun, a quiz on “The first world war in fiction” - how well do you remember fiction’s war plots and heroes?
In case your kids are wondering why they got the [...]
BNA_Daily | October 30, 2009
Just in time for Halloween, Stephen King is popping up everywhere in the lit-blog world. The master of horror has several projects in the works, including a vampire series told through serial comics and a 1,000+ page thriller. His stories are also being used in an anthology tracing American horror and our obsession with being [...]
BNA_Daily | July 3, 2009
The 4th of July is more than just an opportunity to watch fireworks while eating endless amounts of hot dogs and red, white, and blue Jell-o. It’s a chance to brush up on exactly what it is we’re celebrating - the United States, the Declaration of Independence, all of the U.S. history you’ve forgotten over [...]
BNA_Daily | June 19, 2009
June 19th, or Juneteenth, celebrates the day that the country’s last slaves were freed. In this short video, NPR chronicles the final Civil War battle leading up to the final emancipation in Texas on June 19th, 1865 - two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation became official. In the years leading up to [...]
