The Friday Links Library has been enjoying its summer vacation. We’re back this week with a short edition…

 

• Yesterday was Harry Potter’s (and J. K. Rowling’s) birthday, marking 16 years since readers first met the boy wizard. A recent study suggests that reading Harry Potter makes children more empathetic or tolerant toward minority groups or people unlike themselves. Here’s a direct link to the study.
• We Need Diverse Books incorporates: what started as a hashtag campaign to publish more children’s books that represent a broad, colorful range of authors and characters is becoming a nonprofit. A classroom partnership with First Book and the NEA’s Read Across America as well as a book festival are in the works.
• And CLiF has enjoyed some great press lately, including a Sense of Service spread in the Burlington Free Press. See our July e-news for more links.

 

Happy Friday!