Tag: books

• What’s all the hoopla about book banning, anyway?

  If you have been following any news about education or literature this past year, you have surely come across numerous articles about book banning.  Along with a couple of other topics that I will be writing about in the near future, this one has been one of the most compelling and divisive.  It isn’t the…

  Cheri Blomquist

  January 4, 2025

  Children’s Literature, Education

  banned-books, book-banning, books, censorship, Education, libraries, parental-rights, publishing

• The Bright Side of YA Literature

  NOTE: This was originally posted to my old blog, The Nosy Parent Blog, in December 2014. It has been slightly updated. Please note that the YA book review website referenced can be found here through December 2024: http://www.wiilitguide.com/. All reviews will be moved to a PDF file on my “Reader’s Nook” page of Once Upon…

  Cheri Blomquist

  November 2, 2024

  Children’s Literature

  books, children, literature, teenagers, young adult

• Open the Door and Back Off (said the expert)

  NOTE: This was originally posted to my old blog, The Nosy Parent Blog, in March 2014.  In A Family of Readers, authors Robert Sutton and Martha V. Parravano discuss the issue of reading within the context of the family–how and when to read with children, when to leave them alone with their books, and how to…

  Cheri Blomquist

  October 29, 2024

  Children’s Literature

  books, literature, young adult