Why Do Some People Love Licorice And Other People Loathe It?
It's National Licorice Day. People who love it, love it - and the people who don’t aren’t shy about saying so. Maybe it would help if we explained how we got to this impasse?
How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Let Millions Of Young Readers Pick The Ending Of The Story
Today in 1931, the birthday of Edward Packard, who along with R.A. Montgomery founded a book series that let millions of young readers pick the ending to the story: Choose Your Own Adventure.
A Sprained Ankle Helped Bring Pippi Longstocking To The World
Today in 1944, Astrid Lindgren of Stockholm, Sweden fell on ice and sprained her ankle. While stuck in bed, she decided to write down some stories she'd been telling her daughter, stories that would lead to one of the most popular children's book series of all time.
Donald J. Sobol’s Encyclopedia Brown Books Taught Young Readers To Solve Mysteries
Today's the birthday of a mystery author known to millions of kids, Donald J Sobol. He wrote the Encyclopedia Brown series, about a 10 year old detective who solved cases because he knew, as his nickname suggested, all sorts of unusual and obscure facts in the era way before the internet.
How The Baby Sitters Club Became The Book Series All The 80s Kids Were Reading
Netflix is about to release a show based on The Baby-Sitters Club I used to re-shelve all the time at the public library where I worked. Here's the story of how the series came to life.
Does A Book With 1,250 Endings Ever Really End?
I grew up reading Choose Your Own Adventure books, some of which had dozens of possible endings. But a new book from a celebrated Sri Lankan children's author had a world record 1,250 endings!
A Big-Time Librarian Kept “Goodnight Moon” Off The Shelves For 25 Years
Despite being one of the most iconic children’s books of its time, the New York Public Library didn’t have a copy of “Goodnight Moon” for decades, because an influential librarian didn’t like it.
Asleep under a book
This three year old likes to read before sleeping.