Opinion

SLJ remains committed to the work. There is much to be done.

Readers are "questioning everything," including librarians in popular culture.

Has a book resonated with you, gotten so inside your head, that you had to talk to someone? Kids make such striking connections, notably after reading “intense and disturbing” books, finds recent research.

On August 21, 1939, five Black men quietly sat down to read in the Alexandria (VA) Public Library after being refused a library card. Occurring years before more widely known efforts to desegregate lunch counters beginning in the 1950s, the Alexandria Library sit-in is the focus of a project to digitize and distribute related materials and teaching resources.

Here we go! Readers let loose on the selection available in middle grade titles as well as disinvited authors.

A college student finds connection through a love of reading while mentoring a New York City elementary school student with the Read Ahead literacy program.

A reader tries to make sense of book banning legislation and more.

When Coach Feiler signed on to work as our high school library teaching assistant, he transformed the programming and the vibe.

What would Crockett Johnson think of the new movie adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon? His biographer weighs in.