Is Listening to Audiobooks Reading?
In a guest essay in the Times (November 23, 2025), Brian Bannon, the chief librarian at the New York Public Library and its director of branch libraries and education, argues…
We Need Diverse Books
When I was in graduate school, working on a degree in teaching, I was especially keen to learn how to teach reading so that all students would end up loving…
Prison Reading
So the latest financial outlaw and crypto-currency-exchange fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, was quoted in an interview prior to his downfall and arrest as proclaiming “I would never read a book.” Who…
What Is Reading For?
Recently the New York Times devoted an entire Sunday Opinion section to the question “What Is School For?” What a crazy question, I thought! Being a former teacher, the mother…
The Book Doctor Is In: Q&A with Bookbinder Emma Kiely-Hampson
All book lovers know that any day is the perfect day to sit down with a new book or an old favorite, but sometimes the realities of life leave our…
Lessons Passed Down
My favorite gift to newborns is, you guessed it, a book, but one that I especially like to give (along with Pat the Bunny!) is any edition of Mother Goose…