The process of selecting books published long ago for a present-day audience provoked thoughtful conversations among our staff. We knew that the style of writing, the subject matter, and even the jokes found in century-old books might be difficult for young readers today to engage with. We knew that every book that we selected would inevitably reflect some of the attitudes, perspectives and beliefs of its own time, as well as failing to represent diverse authors and audiences.
To kick off our celebration of Children’s Book Week (April 29-May 3), we invite you to tune into our live stream on Monday, April 29th, beginning at 10 am EDT.
We will be livestreaming a special program from the Young Readers Center in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. Local authors who are members of the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC, will be reading twenty special children’s books from the Library’s collections.
Staff from the Library of Congress will be in booth 504 at the annual convention of the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) in Columbus, Ohio, November 17-19. We’d love to hear about your work and give you a personalized tour of the Library’s primary source collections, teaching materials, and professional development resources. But whether or …
As the new school year approaches, we thought it might be helpful to highlight new collections that have been added to the Library of Congress digital collections.