Flannery O’Connor Week & Web Newberys

By emily | September 24, 2012

It’s Flannery O’Connor Week here at RR!  We’re very excited to be talking about Jonathan Rogers’ new biography of her, The Terrible Speed of Mercy.  We’ll have an interview with Jonathan later in the week, as well as a review of the book and maybe a giveaway.  So check back soon to find out how…

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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 36

By emily | September 23, 2012

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Hobbit Read Along!

By emily | September 22, 2012

Sign up and find out more HERE. This is just a quick note to say, we’re doing lots of behind the scenes work these days to prepare for a November read along of The Hobbit.  If you’re thinking of reading it, maybe with the kids (?), before the December release of Peter Jackson’s big screen…

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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 35

By emily | September 16, 2012

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Just Because: a Roundup of New Picture Books

By Janie Cheaney | September 11, 2012

The picture book is alive and well, to judge by the way the publishing industry keeps pumping them out.  Here are some of the more recent (and one more that’s not so recent) offerings, all recommended: Jonah’s Whale, by Eileen Spinelli, illustrated by Giuliano Ferri.  Eerdmans, 2012, 32 pages. “God made Whale.  God gave Whale…

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Web Newberys (Sept. 10)

By emily | September 10, 2012

Fun, surprising, and brilliant web posts about books in the last few weeks, particularly those for kids: Notes from the Horn Book:  If you love kids’ books and want to keep up with the secular world’s best books, the Horn Book emails are a great place to start.  Here is a link to what is…

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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 34

By emily | September 8, 2012

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Kids and 9/11

By Janie Cheaney | September 7, 2012

To our children it’s already history, but to us it seems like “only yesterday.”  Too soon, really, to come to an informed conclusion about what it all meant and whether the response was justified or not.  Or even whether it “changed America forever,” as every commentator claimed at the time.  But it happened, we know…

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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 33

By emily | August 26, 2012

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How to (teach your kids to) Read Like an Editor

By emily | August 23, 2012

The Intro When I graduated from Ole Miss back in 2000 with my B.A. in English Literature, I was shocked to actually find a job working at a publishing house.  I spent the first few months packing books and counting inventory and making collections calls.  But eventually, I got my first crack at editing a…

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