Stephen’s Lighthouse featured an article from globeandmail.com describing recent research that shows people who read fiction have better social skills.

At the Blue Skunk Blog, Doug Johnson explored the issue further with his post about building the capacity for empathy.

The AASL blog reports back on the Library of Congress Primary Sources workshop that was held a couple of weeks ago at NECC. The post includes links to handouts and other great resources.

The YALSA blog invites us to complete the free registration for Teen Read Week 2009 to get incentives and win prizes.

YALSA also provides a link to mp3s of the speeches given by Geraldine McCaughrean and other Printz award winners at ALA’s annual conference in June.