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Posted by: Danna Bell
The Young Readers Center is excited to invite you to see the annual Puppet Show on the day after Thanksgiving on November 29, 2019. This year we are sharing Native American Folktales, with stories and poems from nations such as Cree, Seneca, Winnebago, and Navajo.
Posted in: Native American History, News and Events, Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Danna Bell
The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Regional program has just awarded a $20,000 grant to the Academy of American Poets to support the addition of resources from the Library's collections to the Academy's Teach This Poem series for the 2019-2020 school year.
Posted in: News and Events, Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Danna Bell
We invite you to join that great audience as the Library celebrates Whitman’s 200th birthday with children, teens, and their families on June 1, 2019.
Posted in: News and Events, Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
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.
Posted in: Poetry and Literature, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Children’s Book Week (April 29 to May 5, 2019), the Library of Congress has launched a unique online collection of 67 historically significant children’s books published more than 100 years ago. Drawn from the Library’s collections, Children’s Book Selections are digital versions both of classic works still read …
Posted in: Poetry and Literature, Young Learners
Posted by: Danna Bell
By understanding a work’s original context, intent, message, and audience, creators can use cultural referents to frame new ideas. Public-domain classics achieve a continually evolving immortality as they are re-imagined by new generations of creative minds. Public domain works, through creative adaptation, can be used to create a commentary on the original work, engage contemporary issues, create opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue, and promote cultural change.
Posted in: Copyright, Fine and Performing Arts, Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
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.
Posted in: News and Events, Poetry and Literature, Young Learners
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
The Library of Congress houses the largest archival collection of Walt Whitman materials in the world, all of which have are now available online. Seeing portions of Whitman's poems in various stages of composition reveals both his very active creative mind and his innovative ways of seeing the world and crafting poetic expressions.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), News and Events, Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Danna Bell
Those of you who are regular visitors to our twitter feed may remember seeing occasional tweets about the blog From the Catbird’s Seat from the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library. There are many wonderful posts From the Catbird Seat, but of special interest to many teachers will be the “Teacher’s Corner.”
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, Poetry and Literature