While most six-year olds are still learning how to read, Edith Fuller is spelling words all the way to national fame. The wunderkind’s talents took her all the way to the Oral Roberts Global Learning Center in Tulsa, where this past March she out-spelled over fifty other students—some of them as old as the eighth grade—to win the right to travel to Washington, D.C. and take part in the ninetieth Scripp’s National Spelling Bee. Edith, only five at the time of her victory, is the youngest person ever to qualify for the competition. Image courtesy of KJRH According …
Thanks to a Washington State librarian, kids are improving their reading skills with the help of some unconventional yet highly receptive tutors: dogs. Image courtesy of ParentMap MieMie Wu, a librarian in Bothell, Washington, was inspired to start the program, Reading with Rover, after hearing about R.E.A.D. (Reading Education Assistance Dogs), a Utah-based program in which children gained literacy and self-esteem by practicing out loud to canine friends. After its initial success, Reading with Rover has spread to six Washington school districts in the Puget Sound area while also holding reading sessions at libraries and bookstores throughout the Northwest. Image courtesy …
Calling all bibliophiles: the U.S. Library of Congress, the world’s largest library, just put 25 million of its records online—for free. Image courtesy of https://bit.ly/2rQX52M The MARC Open-Access, as the records are officially called, is now available on the Library of Congress Website at no additional charge to the user. Composed of books, images, music, manuscripts, and more, the data covers nearly forty-five years of library records, with the oldest material dating to 1968 and the newest to 2014. Image courtesy of Tenor This would be an impressive stretch of information for a normal library, except the Library …
From city to city and coast to coast, one usually knows what to expect when they enter a book store: shelves stuffed end-to-end with books, some chairs for reading in, maybe even a coffee shop if the store is part of a larger chain. Not so with the new Amazon bookstore. The online retail giant, which established its first physical store in Seattle in 2015, will open its first New York City location tomorrow in Manhattan’s Columbus Circle. Though the new brick-and-mortar shop may appear like your average Borders or Barnes and Noble at first glance, closer inspection …
Break out the sunscreen and jean shorts—Summer 2017 is finally here! But being the self-respecting bookworm that you are, no summer would be complete without a trove of new and engrossing literary delights. Fear not: Bookstr has got you covered. 1. Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan Finishing out his popular Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, Kwan returns to his ridiculously wealthy Singapore clan as they grapple with the impending death of the family matriarch and the unknown contents of her coveted will. Kwan is a master at describing the lives of certain members of the very very very rich; …
