Books Archives — Planet Word Museum The museum where language comes to life Fri, 08 Sep 2023 22:00:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://planetwordmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-PW_Logo_BLUE_circle-2-1-32x32.png Books Archives — Planet Word Museum 32 32 From the Founder: Prison Reading https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-prison-reading/ Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:27:15 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=6354 So the latest financial outlaw and crypto-currency-exchange fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, was quoted in an interview prior to his downfall and arrest as proclaiming “I would never read a book.” Who…

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]]> From the Founder: What Is Reading For? https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-what-is-reading-for/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:30:35 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=5945 Recently the New York Times devoted an entire Sunday Opinion section to the question “What Is School For?” What a crazy question, I thought! Being a former teacher, the mother…

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]]> The Book Doctor Is In: Q&A with Bookbinder Emma Kiely-Hampson https://planetwordmuseum.org/the-book-doctor-is-in-q-a-with-bookbinder-emma-kiely-hampson/ Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:30:18 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=5839 All book lovers know that any day is the perfect day to sit down with a new book or an old favorite, but sometimes the realities of life leave our…

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]]> From the Founder: Lessons Passed Down https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-lessons-passed-down/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:22:02 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=5528 My favorite gift to newborns is, you guessed it, a book, but one that I especially like to give (along with Pat the Bunny!) is any edition of Mother Goose…

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]]> From the Founder: Remote Control https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-remote-control/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 19:27:05 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=4582 A while ago I was invited to be a judge for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize. My husband, Tom Friedman of the New York Times, had served a 9-year…

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]]> Empathy, Art, and Telling Important Stories: Q&A with Jason Reynolds https://planetwordmuseum.org/empathy-art-and-telling-important-stories-q-a-with-jason-reynolds/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 04:00:00 +0000 http://planetwordmuseum.org/empathy-art-and-telling-important-stories-q-a-with-jason-reynolds/ Long Way Down—Jason Reynolds’s bestselling novel in verse—makes its way to the Kennedy Center. Reynolds, a member of Planet Word’s Advisory Board, talked to us about empathy, the theatrical adaptation…

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