There’s an easy cliché, broadcast with unthinking frequency, which says that books are a thing of the past, that today’s kids, their vocabularies crippled by “text speak,” have swapped their chapter books for iPads, and that the bright gadgetry of now has swept away the old values of deep attention and imagination. And so on.
But to have attended the 17th annual Allen County Young Authors’ celebration dinner Friday night is to encounter evidence of a very different kind.
According to the program’s chairman, elementary school librarian Deb Greenwall, this year’s Young Authors season was in many ways the most fruitful.
