Posted in Books, Children, Julie's Column, On the Web, Reading, tagged American Indians, Debbie Reese, Jan Brett, Three Snow Bears on Monday, February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
This column appeared in the Journal on January 25, 2008. Past columns can be read at juliewinkelstein.com
“…Because we cherish children, because we respect the authority they relegate to us, because we abhor the racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender stereotypes of the past, we cannot use books with children that are less than excellent.” Jan LaBonty, [...]
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Posted in On the Web on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 | No Comments »
What better way to welcome in the New Year than by celebrating the “Word of the Year?”
The staff of the Oxford American Dictionary face the ongoing task of reviewing the thousands of new words coined in English each year and deciding which are worthy of being included in the next edition of the dictionary. (For [...]
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Posted in Books, On the Web on Thursday, December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
The active members of the Mystery Writers of America have voted on the best mystery novels of all time. Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon came in second, followed by the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time, and Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent. Agatha Christie first appears at number ten, but has three books [...]
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Posted in Books, On the Web, Reading, Teens on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Teen Read Week is underway. This year’s theme is “LOL @ your library.” The event’s homepage links to lists of funny books you may want to read, a list of teen-chosen top books of every genre, and a survey you can enter online to pick your favorites from among these popular titles. Check it out [...]
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Posted in Books, On the Web on Saturday, October 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Doris Lessing won the Nobel prize for Literature this week. For many who lived through the Sixties, her novel, The Golden Notebook, was a pivotal reading experience. If you want to know more about her life and work, take a look at this overview from the excellent online journal, Salon.com:
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/10/12/doris_lessing_guide/
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Posted in Libraries, On the Web on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Bay Area has some lovely library buildings — but take a look at this “Compendium of Beautiful Libraries” from around the world. Some of these libraries are more than a hundred years old; all of them embody love and respect for books and learning.
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