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Author Archives: Margaret Kingsbury
Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day – Tomorrow, December 1st!
“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! I spent the year after I graduated college blissfully working at a small independent bookstore outside of Milwaukee called Books & Company. I enjoyed almost […]
Do I Have Nomophobia?
I was sitting on the couch this weekend, watching the news when I first heard it: nomophobia. That’s right NOMOPHOBIA, aka “The fear of being out of mobile phone contact…an abbreviation for ‘no-mobile-phone phobia.’” Well, according to KVUE-TV News and Wikipedia anyway. So you’re probably having the same reaction as I first did, which is, […]
Remembering Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012
I’ll be the first to admit it, I was a boring kid. I mean really boring. Boring as in: I liked vanilla ice cream, my favorite color was pink, and my go-to bed time book was Goodnight Moon. What can I say? With three older siblings willing to inflict pain and laugh in my face […]
What have you done for the book industry lately?
Every April, Time magazine puts out its list of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” (check out this year’s list here). And every April, it’s chocked-full of all the people you would expect: heads of state, superstars, moguls, athletes and celebrities. The magazine’s tagline for the list is: “they are the people […]
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