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Un-fair-y Tales: Mixed-Up and Irreverent Stories
And they lived happily ever after... THE END.Oy! I have never liked that ending. Many children today are only familiar with the neat and tidy endings to ooey-gooey, sunshine stories. While these types...
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Booktalking "Roller Derby Rivals" by Sue Macy
In New York City in 1948, Midge "Toughie" Brasuhn and Gerry Murray duke it out on the roller rink for the benefit of thousands of TV viewers. Gerry is on the Manhattan team, and Toughie is skating for...
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Booktalking "I Lived on Butterfly Hill" by Marjorie Agosin
Ten-year-old Celeste is living an idyllic life in Chile with her parents, relatives, and friends Gloria, Lucilia, Marisol and Cristobal... until things start changing. At first, the changes are slow,...
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Asian-Pacific American Heritage Picks for Adults
It is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, so to celebrate these writers we asked our staff here at NYPL to name some of their favorites. Here is what they had to say:"So it was that we soaped...
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Job and Employment Links for the Week of May 17
Enrollment Now Open! SAGEWorks Boot Camp. This two-week long, intensitve training course will provide participants with essential skills to lead them toward job placement. The first session starts on...
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Ask the Author: Paul Czajak
Don't miss Paul Czajak, author of the Monster & Me series, at KidsLIVE! Author Talk May 21 at the Battery Park City Library. Paul will be signing copies of his latest picture book, Seaver the...
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Booktalking "The Birthday Ball" by Lois Lowry
Princess Patricia Priscilla and yellow cat, Delicious, lead a life of luxury... but it's boring, boring, boring. The princess longs to attend school as the peasant children do in order to add some...
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Book List: Can't Get Enough of Wolf Hall?
Since the Masterpiece Classic series, Wolf Hall, finished up this week on PBS, fans of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies will surely be missing something...
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The Great War and Modern Mapping: WWI in the Map Division
Surveying Landscape for Enemy. Image ID: 115706This past August we marked the centennial of the Great War, a cataclysm that forever altered our political map. In the course of the war, no less than...
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Eight YA Retellings of Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding is the story of a girl and a big bad wolf in the woods. The original story was written by Charles Perrault (1628-1703). Here are some recommendations of modern retellings of the...
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Watch Live: The Schomburg Center Receives the Prestigious National Medal for...
It is in part thanks to our many visitors—online, local and from around the world—that the Schomburg Center is proud to receive the National Medal for Museum and Library Service at 11 am on Monday, May...
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Books for the Twenty-Somethings
Our reader asked: “Can you recommend any books (realistic fiction—about romance, friendships, family, etc.) with female protagonists who are in their early to mid-20s? I used to be into YA books, but I...
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Booktalking "Do You Know Dewey?" by Brian Cleary
Melvin Dewey loved to read, and he made up a system to classify nonfiction books in 1876 that is still used in public and school libraries today. the 0 - 999 system places books with similar subjects...
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Sinatra at the Stage Door Canteen
Stage Door Canteen, NY. Photograph by Florence Vandamm. Image ID: ps_the_4036We have received many questions recently about this, the secondary key image for the exhibition. In these months between...
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Booktalking "Librarian on the Roof" by M. G. King
This is a story about the oldest library in Texas, the Dr. Eugene Clark Library. This library is over a century old, and it was suffering from disuse due to its old, outdated books. Then, RoseAleta...
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Rock 'n' Read: Thee Oh Sees
Image courtesy of Thee Oh Sees"I've always liked how books tend to just fall into your life whether by recommendation or lending or even trash picking."Thee Oh Sees, fronted by John Dwyer, are a Los...
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Listen: 2015 Bernstein Journalism Award Finalists Talk About Their...
Want to read the year's best journalism? The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism is given annually to journalists whose books have brought clarity and...
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Book Notes From The Underground: May 2015 (New Nonfiction)
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks Being a librarian, a book like this is catnip for me. Why should you read it? Because Tim Parks is a witty, thoughtful, and incisive...
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Hungry for Peeta? Memorable Secondary Characters in YA
Katniss wouldn't have been Katniss without her faithful companion by her side in The Hunger Games.But it's been five long years since the final installment of the series came out, and new better halves...
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Podcast #61: Alan Cumming on NYC and Acting
Subscribe on iTunes.He's written a memoir called Not My Father's Son. He's Eli Gold on The Good Wife. He's been Nightcrawler in X-2: Men United and Hamlet and Mr. Elton in the film adaptation of Jane...
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