Books
Delaware County Libraries unveils new plan — and plans to debut a first-ever app
The agency, in charge of 26 member libraries across Delco, has put forth a strategic five-year plan to guide its vision through 2026.
4 years ago
After 30 years, African American Children’s Book Fair expands to the Convention Center
After 30 years, the African American Children’s Book Fair has expanded into the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
4 years ago
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza on ‘We Are Not Like Them’
The novel is written from alternating perspectives and tells the story of two women of different races whose friendship is altered by a tragic police shooting in Philadelphia.
Air Date: February 22, 2022 10:00 am
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A West Philly couple wrote a children’s book to help parents have ‘The Climate Talk’
Lena Champlin, Jeremy Wortzel, and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry wrote a children’s book about climate change and anxiety.
4 years ago
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The Philadelphia Tribune
Temple’s Blockson collection publishes graphic novel to encourage youth
High school students in the School District of Philadelphia will soon have access to Philadelphia’s rich history of local African American heroes and trailblazers.
4 years ago
NPR
This 8-year-old’s book is a hit at his library. He offers advice for aspiring authors
The hottest commodity of the Lake Hazel branch of the Ada Community Library in Boise, Idaho is the brainchild of 8-year-old Dillon Helbig, a second-grader who loves to write.
4 years ago
Conservative groups are pushing to pull books on issues of race, gender, sexuality, LGTBQ topics, and history. What's behind this rise in book challenges and what's at risk?
Air Date: February 4, 2022 10:00 am
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Book about Holocaust banned in Tennessee school district
A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language" and an illustration of a nude woman.
4 years ago
Billy Penn
Indie bookstore The Head and The Hand is expanding to a new, bigger location on Frankford Avenue
The nonprofit publisher first opened in Kensington three years ago.
4 years ago
Quiara Alegria Hudes’ ‘My Broken Language’ is 2022’s One Book, One Philadelphia
The Free Library has selected a new memoir from Philly native and “In the Heights” playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes for this year’s all-city read.
4 years ago
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Doing it for the Gram: Showcasing the ‘Imperfect History’ of America’s oldest lending library
The Library Company of Philadelphia partnered with Kwasi Hope Agyeman to make an online “Hidden History” video about an exhibition on historic racism.
4 years ago
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Billy Penn
Joseph Fox Bookshop in Center City closing after 70 years, as neighborhood bookstores press on
The Sansom Street store was a mainstay of the local literary scene.
4 years ago
The revolution in plant-based eating
50 years ago, Frances Moore Lappé started a food revolution when she wrote "Diet for a Small Planet" on the importance of plant-based eating.
Air Date: January 18, 2022 10:00 am
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In MLK’s honor, 15 little libraries will pop up in the spring, thanks to carpentry apprentices
Paired up, with one expert helping them along, the novices built the little blue book houses starting from a sketch. It’s the program’s sixth year.
4 years ago
A group organized a virtual book drive so the community can buy titles the district has removed or has plans to remove from school libraries and lessons.
4 years ago