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Mar 30, 2016

Siblings Reading Through Life

“Maria ‘Ma-Reader’ Benevento” – she deserves the nickname. Maria was two weeks short of two years old when…

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Mar 8, 2016

Dreaming With My Eyes Wide Open

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way…

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Jan 4, 2016

BooksThatMatter: Sherlock Holmes

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Discover the world and language of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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Dec 23, 2015

eBooks Are Changing the Way We Read and Write

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There is no doubt that eBooks are changing the way we read, but they are also changing the way we write.

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Dec 22, 2015

Selfish

Why do people read? Why do we write? Why do we connect ourselves to made-up strangers and live lives that are not ours?

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Feb 24, 2015

Why the Book is Better

How many times have you heard someone say “the book was better,” in reference to the film adaptation of a beloved novel? I’m willing to bet it’s happened more than once. Movies are great, don’t get me wrong, but more often than not, the book really is better. Consider for instance the…

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Feb 17, 2015

How I Got My Daughter Into Reading

I am still not sure how I fell in love with reading. My parents didn’t spend a lot of time reading to me when I was a child, and I didn’t have any older siblings to influence me. I know now that reading has been a family activity; my great-grandfather and my…

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Dec 18, 2014

Throwback Thursday: Harry Potter

When I was seven years old the first Harry Potter movie was released in theaters. At the time I didn’t know what the films would inspire me to do in the future — looking back it is almost comical to me how naïve I was to think that such a phenomenon as J.K. Rowling’s…

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Nov 12, 2014

National Young Readers Week : Just Read!

This week is National Young Readers Week and to celebrate, Blooming Twig Books wanted to get an author of children’s books point of view on reading. We asked Cynthia Gustavson (author of Bully!, Please Use This for Children and Not for War, Ballad of the Rag…