What’s that you say? You’re longing to take a trip abroad to see the sights in distant lands, but it isn’t in your budget? Or you’re eager to learn about something new, but there aren’t any TED talks scheduled for your locality, and a dry lecture on the drier Sahara, the only talk that is...
Month: <span>March 2016</span>
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Cynthia To All Pilots: Land Immediately
Although I write for both adults and kids, most of the book-readings I do are kids’ books, both to audiences of pre-schoolers and to audiences of school-age kids in after-school care. My usual M.O. is to bring with me small slips of paper on which I have printed the book’s title, the publisher’s website, and...
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For Better Understanding
Roundtable/Great Reads is on the cusp of publishing—may have already published, by the time you read this—a book called Passover, which teaches kids about the Jewish holiday of the same name. I didn’t intend it to be read only by Jewish kids. When I was a teenager—which was a very long time ago!—I joined an...
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Let’s Hear It For Comic Books!
When I was a kid, parents and teachers alike decried kids’ reading comic books, asserting that they weren’t “real” books, that kids couldn’t learn from them, that they were “lazy reading,” and more. My own parents didn’t give me any grief about the comic books I read—mainly Little Lulu, Nancy, Henry, and Donald Duck—because I...
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Throw The Book At Him
When a judge is being urged to give a convicted criminal the harshest sentence possible, he or she is urged to “Throw the book at him/her.” I say we should ALL “throw books” at people—only, don’t literally THROW the books—please—just GIVE them, gently. Books are wonderful gifts—for any occasion or no occasion at all.