“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.” -Abraham Lincoln
Celebrate a birthday this month as you begin your year in books.
on the first Langston Hughes and Jerry Spinelli
on the fourth Paul O. Zelinsky
on the fifth David Wiener
on the seventh Laura Ingalls Wilder
on the tenth E.L. Konisgsburg
on the eleventh Jane Yolen
on the twelfth Abraham Lincoln
on the fourteenth Frederick Douglass
on the twenty-seventh Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
and, this year bing leap year, on the twenty-nineth, poet Howard Nemerov