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!
Summer may be starting, but things aren’t slowing down here at Scholastic! This past week, we ramped up for the annual Scholastic Art & writing Awards National Ceremony at Carnegie Hall, over 1 million kids signed up to take the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge, and today we’re celebrating National Doughnut Day! To kick off the weekend, here’s a roundup of our favorite articles from across the Internet. Happy reading!
- For the first time in 20 years, IHOP gave its logo a facelift for a more modern feel. What do you think of the redesign? (via Mashable)
- Doña Ana County in Las Cruces, New Mexico devised a brilliant strategy to improve employee morale and bring awareness to animal adoption: a Cat Library. Government employees can now “rent” a feline for the day from local animal shelter. More than 100 cats have been adopted through the program! (via BuzzFeed)
- Sword in the Darkness, The House on Value Street and Squad D—these are just a few stories by Scholastic Art & Writing Awards alum Stephen King that will most likely never see the light of day. (via Mental_Floss)
- Wow! Six letters typed by Harper Lee between 1956 and 1961 are expected to fetch $250,000 at an auction in New York City next week. In the letters, Lee used pseudonyms such as "The Prisoner of Zenda" and "R. Bouverie Pusey." (via LA Times)
- Have you ever stopped to wonder how the term “rabbit hole,” evolved from a scenario in Alice in Wonderland to a commonly used metaphor in our everyday language? Kathryn Schulz goes down the rabbit hole of rabbit holes in her latest article. (via The New Yorker)
- “…Moi is now and has always been an ardent feminist and champion of women’s rights,” exclaimed the Muppet Miss Piggy this past week. This past week, the celebrity pig was honored with a Sackler Center First Award from the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Congratulations Miss Piggy! (via TIME)
- Here at Scholastic, we strongly support diversity in children’s literature (check out our #WeHaveDiverseBooks initiative). Recently, We Need Diverse Books was a powerhouse presence at BookCon 2015 in New York City, where proved that diverse books are becoming more powerful than ever. (via Bustle)
- Judy Blume gives her opinion on 22 totally random things including the Internet, Netflix, fudge, Carrie Bradshaw and more. (via BuzzFeed)
- Beauty can be discovered anywhere, even in the most unexpected places. Artist Javier de Riba proves this with his gorgeous geometric design paintings on the floors of abandoned buildings. (via Mashable)
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