Book design

In a few areas a great book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and many books like it are being banned. To Kill a Mockingbird is a very informative book on what life was like in the 1930’s, but it is still being banned for strong language, “strong content”, and strong cases of racism. Many schools have had kids read that book, but because of recent events a few have started to ban it. Some people believe that they can teach messages like the ones taught from this book, but in a better way, so they make it…

Eagle Scout-ing for Books According to a study conducted in late April by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the United States cannot read. That is 14 percent of the population. This study also stated that 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th-grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates cannot read. To help combat this, one Edgewood High School junior has set up a book drive at his school to collect donations for…

In the passage “One Writer’s Beginnings” from her autobiography, Eudora Welty recalls early childhood experiences of reading books that later had an impact on her craft as a writer of fiction. In this essay, we are going to analyze how Welty’s language conveys the intensity and the value of these early childhood experiences of reading and about books from a general perspective. Welty begins by giving the reader a vivid description of Mrs. Calloway, which is the first experience and the first…

entering into a stress free world? Good news-this magical world of excitement exists! There is one simple step to entering into this world-open a book. Reading gives readers the ultimate excuse to escape reality and the stress in their lives. One bookworm states, “I found comfort through literature. I loved getting lost in things as marvelous and as wonderful as books. They made me forget about my own troubles, like a submarine and the sea, they submerged me so perfectly.” As readers enter into…

MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN When I was a little kid, if we got in bed quickly, my mom would read my brothers and I a part of a book as we went to bed. Books like The Great Brain, Call of the Wild, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Enormous Egg, and, yes, My Side of the Mountain. It has been a long time since hearing the book read, so at first I wasn’t even going to read it. I had read the list and was going to read Huckleberry Finn, but by brother suggested I read My Side of the Mountain instead.…

Once upon a time in a far away land, there was a book named Tally. Tally was an old book that had been around for nearly 17 years. Although she told stories of faraway lands, adventures with compelling characters and an unexpected ending, she was very underappreciated. Over the 17 years, Tally went through garage sales, bookstores, and libraries, all to be left on the counter waiting for someone new to take her. Tally was a large red book that had a long pen mark down the middle of her cover,…

For the purposes of this paper, I will analyze and discuss seven different children’s literature books that depict people of different cultures and identities. I chose these books because these books challenge children’s preconceived notions about certain groups and help them change those. These books encourage children to not only understand the diversity in the classroom but to appreciate and accept them too and apply this mindset in the classroom and their community as well. In an inclusive…

the Renaissance in England and Italy? Based on the cookbooks, letters, and books of the time period, the importance of food is illustrated through the countless amounts of discussion about the topic and the emphasis placed on cooks of royalty or people like the pope. One of the most popular cookbooks from the Renaissance is the Opera dell’arte del cucinare, written by Bartolomeo Scappi in 1570. At the beginning of the book, is not only a section dedicated to introducing the author, but a large…

Each book from the library was worth a certain amount of AR(Accelerated Reader) points. To earn these points an online test would have to be taken, and a passing grade would have to be received. I was easily able to get the minimum number of AR points required…

school-age child, perhaps 7 or 8, I brought a new book to class for morning reading. It happened to be “Baby Island,” a 1937 novel that Wikipedia describes as “Robinson Crusoe… but with four babies.” My intention, on that brisk fall morning, was to pull the paperback out of my backpack and open it to my bookmark. “What is that? Why are you reading that?” someone asked. A cluster formed around my desk, to see the boy who was not reading a very boyish book. Babies, of course, were the realm of…