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Book Review: Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
An oldie but goodie, I decided to review this book because I like publicizing children's and young adult literature, new and old, that highlights diversity (whether through characters and/or...
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A V. Thomas Pynchon Crossword Puzzle
Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! In honor of the author's dazzling literary headrushes we've put together a crossword that only a real fan can conquer. So put down your muted post horn and show us your...
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Interpretations of Timothy O’Sullivan’s "Ancient Ruins"
Maya Wali Richardson is a student at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. This blog post is derived from her work in Shelley Rice’s class "Aesthetic History of Photography."No. 10. Ancient...
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Booktalking "Stable" by Ted Lewin
The barn on Caton Place was built in 1930. They provide riding lessons, pony rides, parties, and carriages for special events. Gallop, a therapeutic riding program, helps people with disabilities...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of May 10
Addison Group will present a recruitment on Tuesday, May 12, 2015, 10 am–2 pm for Customer Service Representatives (P/T Seasonal) (10 openings), at the Bronx workforce 1 Career Center, located at 400...
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Ask the Author: Clay McLeod Chapman
Clay McLeod Chapman author of The Tribe Book 1: Homeroom Headhuntersis coming to KidsLIVE! May 13 at the Stapleton Library. We asked him a few questions about himself as a reader.When and where do you...
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Happy Mother's Day to Our Reading Role Models
For Mother's Day, we asked our staff to tell us something about their mothers and share her favorite book, or a book they remember reading with her as a child. Here is what they had to say:My mother...
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Salute to Narrative Nonfiction: Journalism and Social Sciences
Narrative or creative nonfiction is somewhat newly recognized genre. Naturally, as librarians we have a great appreciation for the research, the primary source documents and interviews, but it is the...
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Booktalking "Black Gold" by Marguerite Henry
U-see-it is small, but what she lacks in size, she makes up for in heart. After a few jaunts on the race track, the little filly captures Al Hoots's eye. He is smitten with her, and he immediately...
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Booktalking "Vincent's Colors" by Vincent Van Gogh
yellow sky and sunblue and white juggrey-green trees and pink skyyellow buttercupsgreen vase and window shuttersblack clothessilver leaves turning greenstars sparkle many colorsviolet irisesblue and...
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5 Baseball Books That Recap A Single Season
Interested in what makes individual baseball seasons so special for certain teams? There are a multitude reasons why writers write books about solitary years. Maybe the amount of historic happenings in...
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Podcast #60: Diane von Furstenberg on Confident Women
Subscribe on iTunes.Diane von Furstenberg, when asked to describe herself in seven words, provided a resounding statement on her identity: "Woman, woman, woman, woman, woman, woman, woman." Best known...
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Researching New York City Neighborhoods
Hester Street, 1905. Image ID: 837001New York City encompasses over 400 neighborhoods of varying size and structure. With notoriously murky boundaries, the city’s neighborhoods are continuously...
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Cooking the Books: Spring 2015 Edition
This Spring, everything is coming up foodie! On Friday April 10 and Saturday April 11, The New School hosted the Gotham on a Plate: Food in New York City conference, with Mimi Sheraton, former food...
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Mother's Day for Working Moms
Mother's Day Brunch at Park Lane. Image ID: 3883791Mother's Day turned 101 this year. While we associate this holiday with cards, gifts, and more, Director of Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor,...
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Pomp, Circumstance and Advice!
Harvard Class Day Exercises, Seniors entering Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Cambridge, Mass. image ID: 68835My favorite season has returned, breathing new life into so many aspects of creation. May...
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Learning about Genetic Engineering, Modification, and Enhancement
Using The New York Public Library can be one of the central most powerful and inexpensive ways to familiarize yourself with and develop an informed opinion on any number of controversial, complex and...
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Booktalking "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
Sophie's in the Congo for the summer, where she helps the bonobos at her mom's sanctuary. Bonobos are an endangered species, and mothers get killed in the wild so that the locals can sell the babies as...
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Asian-Pacific American Heritage Picks for Young Readers
It is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, so to celebrate these writers we asked our staff to name some of their favorites for kids, middle grade and YA readers. Here is what they had to say:KidsYou...
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Reader's Den: Tigerman by Nick Harkaway (Week 1)
Throughout the month of May, as part of Reader's Den at New York Public Library, we will be discussing Nick Harkaway's 2014 novel Tigerman.Harkaway is a London-based writer (born Nicholas Cornwell) who...
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