School is done, which means it's time for the Summer Learning Challenge! Celebrate the Earth, the environment and just plain fun this summer at home and your local library. Kick off your Earth exploration with a good book. Here’s what we caught kids reading at a few of our libraries across the city. We spotted…
Teen Novels by Debut Authors
Always looking for the newest teen fiction? Check out these four debut authors talking about their books at the Teen Debut Author Panel at Sulzer Regional Library on Saturday, July 14. Their novels represent a variety of genres including realistic fiction, fantasy and fairy tale retellings. In Megan Bannen's The Bird and the Blade, a Chinese…
Happy 80th Birthday, Joyce Carol Oates!
Joyce Carol Oates, born June 16, 1938 in Lockport, NY, is an incredibly prolific author who's also versatile in different formats—novels, short stories, essays, plays and memoirs. Having written a hundred books, Oates has covered a wide range of topics, from boxing, starlets and rebellious teenage girls to serial killers, gothic horror tales and dysfunctional…
Tales of Tricky Gods
Gods give us wisdom and virtue, but the tricksters are the ones we remember. Modern authors tend to highlight the more positive aspects of their character as they give them a contemporary spin. Fasten your seat belts and get ready for humorous adventure. Where to start in recent literature of trickster gods than Neil Gaiman's Anansi…
50 Years of Special Olympics
The Special Olympics celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer here in Chicago. From July 17th to the 21st, 2018, the international sporting event for people with intellectual disabilities returns to the Windy City, where it was born in the Chicago Park District (CPD) in 1968. In 1965, a young CPD employee named Anne Burke began teaching athletic courses…
Fish, Fish, Fish! Fishy Tales for Little Minnows
We've added a few new friends to our Summer Learning Challenge this year—baby trout! The Thomas Hughes Children's Library at Harold Washington Library Center and Brighton Park Branch each have a tank of baby trout to care for this summer. Visit our fish friends and watch them grow throughout the summer until they are released into…
Novel Destinations: Florence
If you've never been to Florence, Italy, and have the chance to go, I highly recommend it. Whether you're there for art or history, or just want to eat and shop, Florence has something for you. Of course, if you're not going to make it there this year, I have some books to ease the…
Happy Birthday, Maurice Sendak!
When I was seven years old, the first book I bought with my hard-earned allowance was none other than Where the Wild Things Are. It still holds the same appeal now as when I first read it. Not only is it a picture book, but it was an opera, a movie and even became a postage stamp…
Women of Las Vegas
Summer is almost here, and that means travel. It also means work in the tourist industry, and what town is more dependent on tourism than Las Vegas? I've found some novels dealing with the grit behind the glitz for female workers in the neon palaces in the desert. While these books are historical novels, they…
Father of the Year
It’s that time of year when we celebrate good ole Dad! Whether you played catch with him in the backyard, watched sports with him on television, or he watched you practice ballet—Father's Day is all about that guy, the one who spends quality time with his kids. Let’s celebrate the supreme grill master, football enthusiasts…
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