Holding her nearly 2-year-old son, Orion, Amy Gibb allows him to place a token in the slot of the new book vending machine at Monongalia County Health Department’s WIC building. Then he points to a title — or maybe it was the cover illustration that caught his eye. Out pops “The ...
Schools must now contend with the practical effects of one of the Legislature’s many culture war bills. This one, Senate Bill 704, requires educators to provide a syllabus of all literature to be used during lessons and gives parents the ability to audit books available to their kids in ...
Read Aloud Monongalia County has joined with West Virginia children’s authors Marc Harshman and Anna Smucker to make two of their books available free of charge. As part of the Read Aloud Author video series children, parents and teachers can hear and see Harshman read his classic ...
by Robin Abcarian I remember the magnificent moment I realized my niece could read. She was 6, and had come for the weekend. It was bedtime and we were reading “Make Way for Ducklings,” the children’s classic about the mallard couple who waddle around Boston trying to find ...
KINGWOOD — Members of Kingwood City Council received an update from city librarians Camille Titchenell and Rhonda Taylor Tuesday. “I’ve been employed at the library for 27 years,” Titchenell said. “We keep track of all we do. We had the doors closed for 1 1/2 months. Our board ...
MORGANTOWN -- The book-loving members of The Literary Society are old souls, even if most of them are just 16 or 17, tops. Those old souls are reaching out in a literacy-promoting event this week in Morgantown, but first, some backstory. Around twice a month or so, the society, whose ...