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!
“None of us remember what it was like in the Before Time. I think they called it ‘America’” Nope, not a line from a YA novel (not as far as I know, anyway.) It’s a tweet from this highly entertaining twitter account Deimosa came across. Read more about it here: This Woman Is Tweeting The Ultimate Dystopian YA Novel And It’s Hilarious
Brittany shares an article about the debate that everyone’s been talking about today: blue and black or white and gold?
We know from our recent Kids and Family Reading Report that nearly two-thirds of children (65%)—up from 2012 (60%)—agree that they’ll always want to read books in print even through there are ebooks available. This article from The Washington Post shows that kids aren’t the only ones who feel this way – research shows that university students also prefer to read in print!
There are so many versions of fairy tales – many of which are quite different from the modern stories we know today. Mike shared this article about newly discovered never-published fairy tales.
Other fun links:
- Jane Austen in quotes: 30 tips for a successful life
- Ten Grammatical Terms That Totally Sound Like Band Names
- If the characters on Downton Abbey went to Hogwarts, which house would they be?
- Map of literary genres (h/t Lia)
