How can we learn to read and write when the English language is changing so quickly? How does children's literature help us understand our place in a world of signs and symbols, of sounds and letters? How do we move between the page and the screen, the pen and the keyboard? Seth Lerer, visiting professor of literature at CMC will examine recent changes in language and literacy to find a place for the imagination in the books we grew up with and to which we still often return.