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National Family Literacy Day with Diary of a Wimpy Kid Author Jeff Kinney
Posted on · Discussing the importance of reading with the best-selling author.
Posted on · Discussing the importance of reading with the best-selling author.
Posted on · The Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, with financial support from companies and charitable organizations, donated and outfitted the new mobile library, which will provide books for children as well as STEM educational programming.
Posted on · Banned Books Week brings awareness to challenged and banned books
Posted on · Episode: 3281 Dyslexia and Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Reading Instruction. Today, dyslexia and reading.
Posted on · James Patterson on his impressive career as the world’s best-selling author with over 400 million books sold. Plus, U.S. Secretary Pete Buttigieg discusses plans for improving transportation conditions in Houston.
Posted on · How she found healing after years of abuse and her father’s murder-suicide
Posted on · What are the books that opened your eyes to the world? Which ones helped shape who you are? Today, we discuss the importance of literacy and representation in books, as well as recent challenges to reading materials.
Posted on · We preview Cover to Cover, Houston Public Media’s show about Houstonians and their love of reading.
Posted on · Libraries remain relevant in changing times by adapting to the needs of their surrounding communities.
Posted on · Three more schools are expected to join the “My Home Library” program later this year.
Posted on · We learn more about Gulf Coast Reads, an annual reading initiative where communities across Greater Houston read the same book. Elaine Plotkin of the Harris County Public Library System tells us more.
Posted on · More than 25 years ago, the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy was founded to help promote family reading and learning. One of the ways the foundation is hoping to achieve that this year, in conjunction with the McNair Foundation, is by giving away a thousand free books to promote literacy for at-risk children. The […]
Posted on · How does buying a fashionable new cell phone case help a girl in a developing country learn to read? A Houston company called Mrked makes fashionable cell phone cases and shares its profits with Room to Read, an organization that helps provide education for girls in Asian and African countries. We’ll hear from one of […]
Posted on · We meet Edward Melton, the new director of the Harris County Public Library. He talks about why he loves libraries and reading.
Posted on · A Houston-based non-profit called the Good Steward Global Initiative is working to build libraries in areas of the African nation of Malawi experiencing what the initiative calls "book famines." This effort comes on the heels of recent devastating floods displacing hundreds of thousands in the country. While we all tend to respond to damage caused […]