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!
Ah, breakfast cereal, the great equalizer. The back of the breakfast cereal box was probably an early literacy experience for most American children for the past five or so decades! This article dives deep into cereal box nostalgia and why people consider vintage boxes to be seriously valuable.
And in a totally different kind of literacy experience, check out these gorgeous, homemade bound versions of the Harry Potter series!
More crafts: check out this working "Weasley clock."
Oh, and speaking of Harry Potter (pretty much always, TBH), this teacher made some fantastic images of his students flying on Quidditch brooms.
Last item in the Harry Potter dispatch: as if J.K. Rowling weren't amazing enough, here is an article about how her books--but also she, personally--help fans who are struggling with depression.
Several people in our office were really into this very abstract and cool post about famous books being broken down to just their punctuation. (Kind of reminds me of Garfield Minus Garfield!)
These Illustrated Neil Gaiman Quotes About Librarians Will Just Make You Want to Hug a Kitten. (I think the title says it all.)
This article is a fascinating, deep dive into the world of Tumblr. (And it has a crazy, morphing background to match the content, which is cool, too.)
Do you know what portable lighthouse libraries are? They're super cool, and you can read all about them right here.
Cool and kind of creepy! Robots could learn human values by reading stories.
Lastly, today the world lost Harper Lee (1926-2016), author of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. Here are 32 Harper Lee quotes to inspire you.
