Janie is a senior writer who contributes commentary to WORLD and oversees WORLD’s annual Children’s Books of the Year awards. She also writes novels for young adults and authored the Wordsmith creative writing curriculum. Janie resides in rural Missouri.
When popular mémoir turns out to be wholesale fiction
Schools of social work demand a conformity that lasts beyond graduation
What a scrapbooking scandal says about human nature
A grownups' list of the top children's books
But don't get emotional about this year's list of banished words
The neoclassical ideal of liberal education prospers online
Is a new technology cutting-edge if consumers are losing the skill to use it?
Emails have been warning Christians to shun The Golden Compass because the author is a dedicated atheist with an avowed goal of "destroying God"
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