YALSA: Connecting Libraries and Teens
Muffled voices. The clickity clack of fingers on a keyboard. The whispers of dusty pages turning on their spines. Children giggling. A faint techno beat buzzing from a pair of earbuds. These are the...
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Nancy Polette: Catching Readers for 70 Years
Nancy Polette’s first published poem made its mark on the pages of a children’s magazine when she was ten years old. At about that same time, a 34-year-old American named Virginia Hall was limping her...
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Susan Maushart: Living Deliberately by Unplugging
Susan Maushart shut off the electricity, removed computer and television screens from the house, stored the video games, hid the mobile devices of her three teenaged children, and reluctantly stashed...
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The Romantic Tale of Coffee & Books
Books and coffee have finally found one another. It’s no secret: writers write books fueled by sips of coffee and readers discuss and read books while holding tightly to steaming mugs. Groups of...
View ArticleWhat Book Has Saved You? Pay It Forward.
This month, we asked our subscribers: Is there a book that saved your marriage, your finances, your kids, your life… What was the book and how did it make a difference for you? Books saved my marriage....
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Deborah Tainsh: Writing Through Grief
Deborah Tainsh never set out to write a book about the loss of a child, nor did she envision becoming a children’s writer as she processed her grief. As a writer, she had only intended to collect and...
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Small & Stewart: Books, Forgiveness Key to Journey
It is late afternoon on a chilly Tuesday. David Small and Sarah Stewart have gathered in the parlor of their historic home on the river in a small Michigan village. They laugh as they talk about books,...
View ArticleMom Blogs: Writing in the Weeds
Bing dictionary defines a blog as an “online diary on a web site; a frequently updated personal journal chronicling links at a web site, intended for public viewing.” The word book has more than ten...
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Open Book: Creating A Literary Arts Community
There is a place, an actual physical place, where writers, book artists, and publishers work, create, and collaborate together. It’s a place where books can literally go from the mind to the page, to...
View ArticleBest of What Dads Are Reading 2013
In our May 2013 issue, we celebrated the power of mom blogs. We started to wonder about whether dads engage with books and blogs in the same way as moms. We found, just like parenthood, dads do things...
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Lucia Graves: Living Life in Translation
For more than ten years, translator Lucia Graves had been translating her father’s poems and novels from English to Spanish or Catalan. On December 7, 1985, she was living and working in Barcelona and...
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Hightower & Scherer: Military Spouse Journey
The post exchange at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, bustles with morning shoppers, while Kathie Hightower and Holly Scherer approach the red, white, and blue backdrop of their soon-to-begin book signing....
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Literacy & Hope: Hearts for Preloved Books
The unshaven man lumbers into the shelter at a Denver bus stop. Right before he sits down, he catches a glimpse of something settled on the other end of the bench. He shuffles over to the bundled books...
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Books on a Rock: Postcards from Camp
June 17, 2013 Dear Mom and Dad, Camp is going well. I miss you. I’m sitting on a rock right now, so sorry for the handwriting. We hiked up to this cool space in an aspen grove, and now I am supposed to...
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“Like a Dad” Voted Best Dad Read
In June, Books Make a Difference asked readers to vote for Best of What Dads Are Reading. Readers chose Like a Dad to top the list. A writer, photographer, and father of two boys, Michael Cusden is the...
View ArticleSummer Reading with Friends & Lovers
Books Make a Difference wants to know all about our readers’ affairs. Ahem, namely the intimate connections forged with and through books. So this month we asked: Are you reading a book with someone...
View ArticleHow Does Your Book Club Choose Books to Read?
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch the title by the toe. If it hollers let it go. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. My mother said to pick the very best one and you are not it! For some book clubs it may be eeny,...
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Goodreads: Find Next Read Among Friends
Goodreads cofounder Otis Chandler stood contemplating his next read at the bookshelf of a friend when he realized how important friends’ recommendations can be to a reading list. What started as a...
View ArticleCommon Book Connects College Freshmen
Arriving on a college campus for the first time can be all at once exciting, unnerving, and isolating. What if there was a way to instantly connect with other students in a meaningful way? Colleges and...
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Sharing Books in a Little Free Library
Walk along the urban streets of Minneapolis or Manhattan, the rural roads of Nebraska or Wyoming, or inside coffee shops and businesses, and you just might come across a handcrafted box on a post that...
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