Book Club for Kids Podcast

Utah students barred from bringing banned books to school Free-speech groups argue the ban violates constitutional rights.

On a day when the latest report card shows that #reading has declined, Utah makes it even harder to pick up a book. wapo.st/4hcPBMV

It’s the year of the Snake! (Preorder now!)

US children fall further behind in reading, make little improvement in math on national exam New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math.

Bad news on the reading front:

apnews.com/article/naep... US children fall further behind in reading, make little improvement in math on national exam

Utah students can no longer bring personal copies of banned books to school Updated guidance from Utah State Board of Education staff clarifies that students can’t bring to school their personal copies of books deemed “sensitive material.”

And so it begins #bannedbooks

www.kuer.org/education/20...

Two more days to grab your copy for less than a buck! It’s #TheWestWing meets #NancyDrew.

“Books accumulate like stray cats that have found someone with a soft heart.” Ron Charles @washpost.bsky.social

Judge rules Arkansas law threatening librarians with jail unconstitutional The law, which threatened imprisonment if librarians or booksellers provided ‘harmful’ content to minors, violates the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled.

A victory for librarians and free speech:

wapo.st/4gPxewX

We ask everybody on the show the hardest question in the world: what’s your favorite book? #amreading #mg

Detroit-area library says Chicago man can keep overdue baseball book -- 50 years later Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library. But he was told he can keep it.

Of course it was a #baseball book!

apnews.com/article/mich... Detroit-area library says Chicago man can keep overdue baseball book -- 50 years later

UK spy agency releases annual Christmas card puzzle to uncover future codebreakers Britain's spy agency is celebrating the festive season with a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery.

What a brilliant idea!

apnews.com/article/uk-g... UK spy agency releases annual Christmas card puzzle to uncover future codebreakers

Angelina Jolie’s mother, was such an advocate of #reading, she kept books inside the oven due to lack of shelf space in their tiny apartment. Where do you keep your extra books?

We ask everybody on the show the hardest question in the world: what’s your favorite book? #amreading #mg