In Our Feeds: copycat readers, weird Olympic mascots, and a book-delivering biker

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In Our Feeds: copycat readers, weird Olympic mascots, and a book-delivering biker

By Guest Blogger on July 27th, 2012

Each Friday, we share a handful of links we found interesting, provocative, funny — or just plain cool. We call it In Our Feeds. Have a good weekend!

This week’s links are brought to you by Catherine, one of our summer interns.

Alex posted a few weeks ago about how e-readers have interfered with her copycat reader strategy. This week I came across an article that still allows me to be a copycat reader in the digital age. My Twitter feed led me to these booklists- like the one from Huff Post and this YA list from NPR.

A more unique way to find your next read was brought to my attention by Nadia who shared this post about finding your next book based on a flowchart.

In honor of the Olympics opening ceremony Megan shared this post about the Best and Worst Olympic mascots- Megan favorites Cobi from the 1992 games in Barcelona.

At Scholastic, spreading literacy is something we encourage. Lia shared how one teacher gives the gift of reading by delivering books to children on his bike.