Jen Selinsky Quote

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about...

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Boo...

Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can rea...

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their i...

For kids who are exposed to books at home, the loss of a library is sad. But for kids who come from environments where people don't read, the loss of a library is a tragedy hat might keep them from ev...