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Drag Queen Story Hour is a children's event that features drag queens reading books and engaging in learning activities in public libraries. It aims to promote reading and diversity, but has also faced criticism and controversy from some conservatives.
A Bad Case of Stripes is a children's book by David Shannon about a girl who gets stripes all over her body and learns to be herself. The book explores themes of identity, bullying, and healthy eating, and is used in many classrooms as a read-aloud.
Jim Trelease (1941-2022) was an American educator and author who stressed reading aloud to children to instill a love of literature. He wrote and self-published the first edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook in 1979, which became a bestseller and influenced many read-aloud movements worldwide.
Reading her letter was an unexpected relief. That wasn’t so bad, I thought. Then, a year later, out of the blue, I got a text from our friend Terra about a voice memo she’d discovered.
Ryan T. Higgins is an American author and illustrator of children's books, best known for his Mother Bruce and Penelope Rex series. He has won several awards, including the E.B. White Read Aloud Award and the Geisel Award Honor, and has been nominated for the Eisner Award.
The E. B. White Read Aloud Award was established in 2004 by The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) to honor books that its membership felt embodied the universal read aloud standards that were created by the work of the author E. B. White. In 2006 the award was expanded into two categories:
Emily Osment stars as Cassie, a goth girl who unleashes a two-headed monster by reading a book aloud on Halloween night. She and her friends must stop the creature before it devours them all in this children's horror film based on R. L. Stine's book.
News of the World is a Western novel by Paulette Jiles about a former soldier who delivers a young girl from captivity to her relatives in Texas. The novel is based on historical events and features a news reader who travels between towns and reads aloud from newspapers.