1. Congrats to six-year-old Isabella Policarpo, the top child summer reader in Staten Island! Isabella read 413 books, most from her local Todt Hill-Westerleigh branch library. She and other top summer readers will get to step on the field at this afternoon’s Yankees game and meet outfielder Curtis Granderson. Hats off to all our summer readers!! Photo courtesy Milena Policarpo and Staten Island Advance.

    Congrats to six-year-old Isabella Policarpo, the top child summer reader in Staten Island! Isabella read 413 books, most from her local Todt Hill-Westerleigh branch library.

    She and other top summer readers will get to step on the field at this afternoon’s Yankees game and meet outfielder Curtis Granderson.

    Hats off to all our summer readers!!

    Photo courtesy Milena Policarpo and Staten Island Advance.

  2. Today’s Caturday comes from legendary writer Robert Louis Stevenson (sort of) - it’s a photomechanical print depicting his poem “The Land Of Counterpane.” Note the adorable kitten on the end of the bed trying to cheer up the little boy, who is sick in bed and playing with his toy soldiers. The print by artist C.M. Burd is currently in the Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection (a collection Andy Warhol used, by the way) and was originally in a book of Stevenson’s Children’s Verses (likely from 1913, although it’s not totally clear). So happy Caturday! Love Robert Louis Stevenson? Check out some of his writing from NYPL! Or, if you want to do some serious research, the Library’s Berg Collection has some of Robert Louis Stevenson’s papers. Cool, right?

    Today’s Caturday comes from legendary writer Robert Louis Stevenson (sort of) - it’s a photomechanical print depicting his poem “The Land Of Counterpane.” Note the adorable kitten on the end of the bed trying to cheer up the little boy, who is sick in bed and playing with his toy soldiers. The print by artist C.M. Burd is currently in the Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection (a collection Andy Warhol used, by the way) and was originally in a book of Stevenson’s Children’s Verses (likely from 1913, although it’s not totally clear). So happy Caturday! Love Robert Louis Stevenson? Check out some of his writing from NYPL! Or, if you want to do some serious research, the Library’s Berg Collection has some of Robert Louis Stevenson’s papers. Cool, right?

  3. Top Ten Back-to-High-School Books →

  4. 10 Great New Graphic Novels for Children →

  5. jyhslibrary:

    Charlotte’s Web, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz.

    (Source: sosuperawesome)

  6. Happy 100th birthday to the late great Julia Child!!! In October of 2007, The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars held the special program JULIA CHILD IN AMERICAN in which a group of Culinary historians came together to discuss the complex legacy of Ms. Child. Above is the audio from that program. Bon Appetit! 

  7. Got Olympic Fever?

    Check out this Olympic reading list by Librarian Robert Gibbs, of St. George Library Center. Included are many memoirs from current and former Olympic medal winners.

  8. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

    — Maya Angelou

  9. Inside the Word World of Merriam-Webster, via The Atlantic Wire.

    Inside the Word World of Merriam-Webster, via The Atlantic Wire.

  10. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.
    They are the destination, and the journey.
    They are home.

    — Anna Quindlen