Every Friday, we share a handful of links that we found funny, provocative or just plain cool. We call it In Our Feeds. Have a great weekend!
- In case you missed it, yesterday we celebrated the most talented young artists and writers in the country—the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Award winners! Alec Baldwin, Hunter March, Tim Gunn, Sonia Manzano, Billy Collins and Ken Burns all stopped by Carnegie Hall to honor these creative teens.
- June is Audiobook Month! Watch this great video of award-winning author Stephen King gushing about his love of audiobooks on BookRiot.
- In Cypress, Texas, a little girl received a doll with a prosthetic leg just like hers, and she cried tears of joy. Watch the truly touching video here.
- We are officially jealous: Singapore now has vending machines that sell books! A local independent bookstore called BooksActually came up with this brilliant idea.
- TV’s most popular stars might have more in common with 19th-century writer’s heroines than you would think. In The Atlantic, reporter Sophie Gilbert explores the similarities between Jane Austen and Kim Kardashian.
- A rare copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is expected to fetch $2 million at auction. Only 22 other copies of the first version of this book are known to still exist!
- For many ELLs in classrooms across the country, a teacher mispronouncing their name can have a lasting impact, which can hinder academic success.
- Here are the “Top 5 children's bookstores in Connecticut” according to CBS Connecticut. If you’re in the area, be sure to check them out!
- Lastly, you should probably add this to your to-do list: The 25 museums you should visit before you die.
The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers (via Instagram)
