From holiday baking to special gifts, reading the Bible to not sweating the small stuff, readers wrote about special ways books have played a role in their holiday traditions. What do books have to do with your holidays? For this month’s Readers Write, we asked: What books have made a difference for you at end-of-year holidays? How have you incorporated books into your holiday traditions? What are the best books to give as gifts? […]
Anticipating the release of the movie based on her book The Giver, Lois Lowry reminded us that a reader’s experience of a book is not the same as the story told in movie form. Lois got us thinking about books becoming movies and movies becoming books and the experience of it all.
In this month’s Readers Write, we asked: If you see the movie first, do you read the book after you’ve seen the movie? Do you read books created from a movie? What movies-to-books have you read? Tell us about your experience. […]
Parents influence their kids, their friends, other parents, other parents’ kids. What parents do or don’t do in literature impacts readers, too. From entertaining to self-sacrificing, overbearing to absent, parent figures in literature can change your view of a story, and maybe even your view of parenting! In this month’s Reader’s Write, we asked: Which literary parent figure is most compelling to you, and why? […]
