[…] family in Syria behind to move to the U.S. As she struggles to find a place for herself in her new surroundings, she also begins to develop new friendships and passions. 9 Spring 2020 Choose to Read Ohio 2021 & 2022 Books for Young Children Skila Brown, Clackety Track: Poems About Trains ; illustrated by Jamey Christoph* (Candlewick, 2019) Trains […]

[…] is brief, none of it is lost. It is all recoverable. We can go back to the beginnings. The literature of Europe has no “land-lookers,” no search for a Northwest Passage, no trail-breakers in the wilderness. No one knows who discovered the Rhine River or the Danube. But in America we know how DeSoto discovered the Mississippi below present Memphis, […]

[…] view, the wish for self-determination and insistence on independence. Those, while of other lands too, are particularly of the American pioneer’s descendants who are of the buffalo and the fading passenger train and also of the jet and super-jet and the same looking-ahead of forebears, but they will settle for it only on terms of human dignity. Perhaps their lives […]

[…] player, help the town drunk, and, most of all, work up the nerve to talk to the most perfect girl in school. However, his decision becomes more difficult as time passes. As Ben learns the dark secrets of people close to him, he realizes that secrets can be destructive instead of liberating. Chris Crutcher was born in Dayton, Ohio. Fat […]

[…] have come to that period in history about which Secre­ tary Dulles warned us. If at any time in the near future it seems like the danger of war has passed, that will be a period of greatest peril. Then we may be tem­ pted to relax and get careless and disarm, inaterially and morally. By so doing, we would […]

[…] the heart of downtown. Today, the Ohioana Book Festival is the largest event in Ohio that celebrates our state’s authors, reaching an audience of avid fans that expands with every passing year. And with a new digital viewership that began with our first virtual festival events in 2020, we’re thrilled to introduce Ohio’s literary talent to readers all over the […]

[…] was a fun image to piece together, much like a puzzle. Q What inspired you to become an illustrator? Was there a specific book, author, or artist that influenced your passion for children’s literature? A I struggled with subjects in school as a child. Reading was a challenge but books with pictures always got my attention. I remember Clifford, the […]

[…] colloquial than formerly. There remains in his entire work that same astringency of phrase and economy of line for which his readers have ad- mired him. How little he has passed for press ! It is hard to think of a living poet whose reputation is based upon so small a quantity of work, a living poet, that is, for […]

[…] such revered places as: Malabar Farm, McGuffey’s Museum, Paul L. Dunbar’s Home, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, the Zane Grey Exhibit and Clovernook. Any Ohioan who possesses at least a pass­ ing interest in Ohio writers will enjoy a visit to the above mentioned shrines . If you would like to include all six places in a tour, it would […]