Book Recs

On Watership Down

Junot Díaz

Like some, I became a reader as soon as I learned to read.

The Dictionary

Esmeralda Santiago

Before I loved reading, I loved words. Palabras, in Spanish. When I was eight in Puerto Rico, a traveling salesman came to our one-room...

Eight Books to Escape the Cold

When the winter blues set in, we love reading that transports you to another world (maybe a sunnier, more tropical world)

Junior Edition #32

Celia McGee

Otherworldly Book Picks

We’ve selected some of our favorite sci-fi and fantasy novels. If you are new to these genres we encourage you to dive in and enjoy one...

Junior Edition #31

Celia McGee

Jane Marcus

Ben Marcus

A person, not a book, made me a reader. Her name is Jane Marcus. She was born on January 23, 1938, in St. Albans, Vermont

On Henryk Sienkiewicz's historical trilogy

Louis Begley

Between the age of nine and twelve, I read nonstop. Circumstances of my life in Poland during World War II were such that there was little else I could do safely.

Junior Edition #30

Celia McGee

On The Jungle Book

David Wroblewski

It helps to imagine your reading life as a staircase rather than a doorway—a winding staircase, with each tread a book, and each riser your...