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The Best Children’s Dictionaries For Young Readers

These children's dictionaries are excellent tools to assist your kids, from young toddlers to high school teens, develop their language skills.

15 of the Best Dictionary Apps for Your Every Nerdy Need

Whether you're learning English or a native speaker looking to impress your friends with the latest jargon, we've got the perfect dictionary app for you.

Does Reading Make You Smarter?

Reading may not be able to alter your baseline abilities, but it can increase what facts you know, allow you to better identify patterns, increase your empathy, and make your neurological connections more pervasive. Here's how.

7 Reading Recommendations from Prof. Joe Farag’s Palestinian Literature Syllabus

This January, ArabLit started a series of talks with professors and instructors about teaching Arabic literature in translation. Here, I pull out seven suggestions from a talk with Prof. Joseph Farag.

Environmental Fiction: A Reading List to Save the World

Based on a talk from Jeff VanderMeer and Amy Green, a discussion on how to save the environment and the environmental fiction books to help along the way.

So You’re Going to Be In a Wedding: Books To Help You Get a Loved One Hitched

From budgeting to small talk, books that will help you navigate your supporting role in someone else’s nuptial extravaganza.

Unexpected Lessons from Library School

One Rioter on the unexpected lessons learned in library school. It's not all about the books.

How Ordinary Men Do Evil: Books on the Holocaust and Preventing Genocide

Why do ordinary men and women do evil? Here are several books that discuss how the Holocaust happened and what we can do to prevent another one.

“The Rise of Fandom in Libraries,” a panel report

Thomas discusses the rise of fandom in libraries, and how libraries can help encourage and foster their patrons' fandom.

Things Get Broken. Things Explode. It’s a Dinosaur Disaster.

Dinosaurs. Monsters. Destruction. What more could kids ask for in an educational comic?