JLG selections shine in 2019 Boston Globe-Horn Book awards
By: Rhonda Mihalic | June 05, 2019 |
The 52nd-annual Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (BGHB) were announced at the end of May, showcasing nine outstanding books—seven of which are JLG Gold Standard Selections!
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Unboxing #2: The Art of Science
By: Rhonda Mihalic | March 29, 2019 |
The giggly, giddy stars of last month's Boxes of Books Unboxing video are at it again, this time unpacking their JLG subscription box of March selections.
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Roses are Red and Poems Don't Have to Rhyme: Celebrating Poetry All Year
By: Deborah B. Ford | April 25, 2016 | Shelf Life
As a college English major, I took plenty of literature courses. Short stories were read. Novels were pored over. Poetry was analyzed. In one class we dissected a poem, learning "exactly" what the writer from hundreds of years ago was saying. In a later course, I was delighted to revisit the same poem with a different instructor. Perfect, I thought, I already know just what the poem means. I quickly volunteered my vast knowledge and was told that I was absolutely wrong. "It means no such thing," the instructor adamantly declared. Read More