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To Pimp a Mockingbird: A Lesson Plan

  • Sean Enfield
  • March 9, 2020
Literacy, you know firsthand, is a tool, is a motivator, is the beat of education.
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A Rare Bird in the World: Talking with Birute Putrius

  • Jennifer Virškus
  • May 31, 2019
Birute Putrius discusses her second novel, THE LAST BOOK SMUGGLER.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #66: Reimagining Children’s Literature as Mixtape

  • Liz Wood
  • January 12, 2017
In the best collaborations, creative individuals push themselves to work with new media and singular, wild things issue forth. Jeff Antebi of Waxploitation Records has managed to create just this…
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Kids Read to Their Barbers for More Than a $2 Discount

  • Amanda Hildebrand
  • October 13, 2016
The Fuller Cut in Ypsilanti, Michigan is offering $2 discounts to kids who read a book to their barber during their haircuts. For NPR, Jennifer Guerra speaks with customers/readers and…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Year of Light and Dark

  • Gina Frangello
  • September 25, 2016
It isn’t much of a contest to say that Julie Coyne is the single most inspirational human being I have ever met. And I am here—in Xela—in part because I could use a little inspiration.
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Children’s Literature through the Centuries

  • Michelle Vider
  • May 16, 2016
At NPR Education, Byrd Pinkerton looks at the emergence of children’s literacy and literature, starting with 17th century learning primers through to the late 20th century’s complex young adult literature, all…
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The Most Literate Nation

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 18, 2016
Finland tops the charts for most literate nation, with the United States coming in seventh. A new study looks not just at literacy rates but at literacy behaviors. These behaviors…
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Own Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Book

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • March 2, 2016
If you’ve ever wanted an unfiltered glimpse into the inner life of your favorite author, celebrity, or athlete, new philanthropic project Read by Famous gives you that chance. Artist Josh Greene, the…
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The “Sealed” Literary World

  • Jake Slovis
  • January 20, 2016
For The Millions, Kate McCahill reflects on illiteracy in the modern world and checks her privilege for growing up “book-rich”: Books, I realized sharply, suddenly, are too expensive. They’re a luxury…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Making a Murderer and “Bad” Families

  • Lisa Borders
  • January 16, 2016
There were “good” families and “bad” families, and even I, an outsider, was quickly apprised of which was which.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jennifer Baker

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • December 12, 2015
The more variation we see in life, the more it becomes less about seeing one type of book by marginalized people.
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Subway Stories

  • Stephanie Bento
  • December 9, 2015
The project brings physical books back into the public’s routine, and in some ways obviates the debate over the necessity or function of the print object. The Ploughshares blog recently…
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