Launching Children Into a World of Reading
Submitted by: Garrett Lenderman I didn’t fall in love with reading until I was forced to read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I read this great American novel for an English course in middle school because, like most troublemakers, I trapped myself in a compromising position. I could read the book, ace the […]
Austin, Texas – Two Austin nonprofits launched the Windsor Park neighborhood in northeast Austin into a world of reading – through art. Local nonprofits, BookSpring and the Jet Method of Exchange (JMOE) teamed up to fuse literacy with art at a mural unveiling on September 26. Based on reading themes used at BookSpring, artist JET […]
Submitted by: Garrett Lenderman I’ve read books my entire life, and I have my parents to thank for that. My mother was an avid reader of “grocery store” novels growing up, and encouraged me to read books with her on Sunday afternoons. And my father, whenever he would catch me with a book, would always […]
