Pennsylvania Center for the Book

Karla Schmit reviews "How to Read a Book" written by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Melissa Sweet

Education

BookMark: "How To Read A Book" By Kwame Alexander & Melissa Sweet

It’s that time of the year when the Pennsylvania Center for the Book celebrates the winner of its Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award for Children.This…

Karla Schmit reviews three children's books from the Pennsylvania Center for the Book's 2018 Baker's Dozen list.

Arts and Entertainment

BookMark: A 'Baker's Dozen' Of Children's Books

Since 2004, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book has named a Baker’s Dozen of books each year that support family literacy.The books chosen for the…

Lars Stoltzfus-Brown reviews "My Favorite Thing is Monsters" by Emil Ferris.

Arts and Entertainment

BookMark: "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters" By Emil Ferris

Emil Ferris’s 2017 graphic novel “My Favorite Thing is Monsters” is at turns beautiful, haunting and heart wrenching––and it took the comics world by…

Alyce Ritti (left) and poet Camille-Yvette Welsch (right).

Arts and Entertainment

Poets And Retirees Collaborate To Create 'Poems From Life'

Adison Godfrey

As Alyce Ritti sat in the recliner in her bedroom, Camille-Yvette Welsch shared a poem she wrote inspired by Ritti’s life (see poem below).Welsch met…