Literacy is the power to be great in the world,” storyteller Gcina Mhlophe assured the audience on August 19 during the opening ceremony of the 73rd World Library and Library Congress information from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions in Durban, South Africa (AL, October, p. 36-38). Parents and library workers witness the magic that happens when young people are exposed to books From kindergarten in fifth grade, I joined my son Owen Hunter at lunch at school two or more times a week, reading aloud to him and his class and completing hundreds of books in those six years. Now, a senior in high school , Owen reads titles like Collapse, An Inconvenient Truth and any book by Orson Scott Card. We fell in love with books and, as a result, created a generation of readers connected through characters and stories: witness the remarkable success of the Harry Potter series of which I can go home to Minnesota Louise Erdrich, Tim O'Brien and LaVyrle Spencer. I connect with my indigenous colleagues around the world through...