Rachel Rosenberg has been writing since she was a child—at 13, she was published alongside celebs and fellow teens in Chicken Soup For the Teenage Soul 2. Rachel has a degree in Creative Writing from Montreal’s Concordia University; she’s been published in a few different anthologies and publications, including Best Lesbian Love Stories 2008, Little Fiction, Big Truth’s Re/Coded anthology and Broken Pencil magazine. She also appeared on the Montreal episode of the Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids podcast. Her day job is as a Children’s Librarian, where she digs singing and dancing with small humans.
We're rich with outstanding LGBTQ+ memoirs right now, and these should make an appearance on your summer TBR. Check out A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt and other great queer memoirs.
Supporting anti-racist ideas should begin in childhood. Kickstart those important conversations with these anti-racist middle grade books.
We're asking Netflix to adapt these excellent recent LGBTQ+ books, including Real Life by Brandon Taylor.
While you might not recognize the names of all these famous libraries from movies and TV, you've probably seen them on the screen.
Inspire the kids to get outside with kids' books about the outdoors, including Fatima's Great Outdoors by Ambreen Tariq and Stevie Lewis.
A dive into the history of the dime novel, the cheap and affordable format that helped put books into the hands of the working class.
If you're planning some bookish trips for the future, don't miss adding these gorgeous libraries to visit post-pandemic to the list.
In a tumultuous world, these books about mindfulness for kids help young readers find calm and ease (adults will love 'em, too!), including Layla's Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie.
In this Read Harder Challenge post, we're recommending books for the task asking you to read a historical fiction with a POC or LGBTQ+ protagonist.
A librarian points out the accurate portrayals of librarians and library work--and, i.e., common misunderstandings--in the film, THE PUBLIC.