New Laureate Donald Hall is being named as the country’s new poet laureate, taking over from Ted Kooser. The author of 15 books of poetry, Hall’s selected poems from 1946-2006 were just published in April, and Houghton has a collection of prose about New Hampshire, EAGLE POND, already scheduled for 2007. Washington Post On Kids and Reading A study just released by Scholastic and Yankelovich more or less gives statistical confirmation to what you probably already knew: Kids start losing their enthusiasm for reading as early as age 9, and the decline continues through age 17. Children of readers read […]