Join Brad Swift and I for our next Guest author readup, next week @ 10 MT. I'll be reading chapters of Cheryl Carpinello's book, Guinevere

villains who see themselves as the hero, or are put in the villain role not based on their villainy, but rather because that was just the si

THE BIG BOOK. That's what we call it. We have literally thousands of books in our home, But when we say "the big book," there's only one th

This is what my wife & I could remember that we've read to the kids in the last 12 or so years. We take turns picking which book to read.

if not apparent from my posts, I'm rather fond of the absurd. I was pleased as punch when I found out as an adult that Silverstein also wro

For anyone who claims either are not litereature, you have me and about a 1/2 a billion other gen-x'ers who would happily debate the issure

Dragon. Without a doubt and without hesitation. I probably would have said that before narrating so many, but 'scales' have tipped.

I don't remember which teacher it was that read it to me, but I know somewhere between 2nd & 4th grade I was read Sacajawea at school.

have three characters from books for youth or from my youth that I have loved since I first read them. First is Digory Kirke from The Magi

While I think the system itself would be amazing to visit... ultimately what I'd love to visit is the abandoned mystery ship.

So as a kid, I primarily identified with the outsider kids in books. Not necessarily socially backward, but seldom were these characters

I knew that my great aunt had been an author. This would have remained undiscovered upon my bookshelf were it not for our nightly readaloud

I have always & do still love fantasy. When you're looking at lists of books, they really love to lump Fantasy & Sci-fi together.

Levar Burton talked to kids about books for kids, but I never felt talked down to. And that was something I was very sensitive to as a kid.

Being an animal lover from a very young age, I would have adored all of James Herriot's books. But... I didn't really grow up in an animal

some time or other I was reading something out loud & my mom made me stop, come in her room & practice reading aloud with her. Thanks Mom!

How many other subconscious messages are embedded in kids literature? What books have you revisited that are NOT what you remember?

Is there a book written after the movie that you've particularly enjoyed? Ladyhawke for me. Reading enhances the movie & vice versa

The ending was also bittersweet & the separation of friends, mentors, and a good many other things that I don't want to get into without spo

Will Stanton had not been anything remarkable before that. But he was suddenly called upon to take upon him the mantle of an ancient herit