At least they’re reading at the Bronx Academy of Letters
October 25, 2009 _While reading experts warn of a drop in child literacy and wonder what affect the web will have on the generation that has grown up with it, librarian Kelly Overton has amassed a room full of enticing reads for young students. Browse the library bookshelves at Bronx Academy of Letters, and you won’t find many classics. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison makes an appearance, as does The Bronx is Burning, a non-fiction classic about 1970s “baseball, politics and the soul of a city.” But most of the nearly 3,000 books in this newly renovated library aren’t exactly high brow. There are plenty of colorfully-covered Goosebumps, Manga Anime, Guinness Books of World Record, and graphic novels, though—books meant to nudge children, one pulp novel at a time, toward a love of reading and eventually, literature. Read the full story
