Daily Archives Sunday, February 2011

FTRW 2011 – Day One – Fat Vampire Banned, Somewhere

Time for my annual weekly series of posts for Freedom to Read Week.  (Yay!) I’ll start with a great response from a YA novelist to a parent who got the writer’s book removed from a school library. All the core points of any book challenge are there in this brief letter: you should monitor you […]

The Heritage Classic and The Playoff Race Is On!

Today’s the second ever Heritage Classic outdoor hockey game (Heritage Classic is in Canada – there’s also an annual outdoor game/marketing bonanza in the US called the Winter Classic.) Today’s game is between the Montreal Canadiens and the Calgary Flames and even if you’re not a hockey fan, it’s worth paying attention to how the […]