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Tag: Literature
#BooksFromTheStacks: City Dog by Karla Kuskin
This week’s book from The Stacks is City Dog by Karla Kuskin. Published in 1994 by Clarion Books. A family from the city takes their dog on a trip to the country in this sweet rhyming story about getting out to the countryside. In beautiful pictures, watch the dog frolic and explore! Find this book and other books about cities,…
The Future of Black America: What We Learned from an Afternoon with John McWhorter #WritersAndReaders
In a virtual Writers & Readers event hosted by Cleveland Public Library on June 12, author and linguist John McWhorter offered potential solutions to improve the lives and futures of Black Americans—while also turning a critical eye to some aspects of the anti-racist rhetoric that has proliferated in the last year. In a conversation moderated by Mordecai Cargill, cofounder and…
Moonpenny Island Represents Ohio at National Book Festival
The Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library selected Moonpenny Island by Cleveland author Tricia Springstubb (HarperCollins, 2015) to represent Ohio’s literary heritage at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival, which will be held September 2 in Washington, DC. Springstubb’s middle-grade novel surrounds a young protagonist who lives on Moonpenny Island, a setting inspired by a real-life island…