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Covering the Newbery (#54): M. C. Higgins, the Great
Click here for the Covering the Newbery Gallery 1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton Original Cover: My Redo: Side by Side: Verdict: I like this one, but am pretty sure kids would not be leaping to grab it off the shelf. Up next week: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (Source image: “Pole […]
Link Du Jour: The Pigeon Gets Radio Play
All-around children’s book genius Mo Willems made an appearance on NPR’s Morning Edition this week to talk about his latest release, The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?, and engage in a little discussion about picture books. As usual, the results are very much worth checking out. Click the image below to listen.
#HoldShelf Day: April 2012
Got a hold shelf? It’s time to share it. The monthly #holdshelf event is here. This time, the gallery is over at Watch. Connect. Read. There was a great turnout – be sure to head there to check things out. Let’s dig into the hold shelf at my 5th and 6th grade school: The Son […]
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Review: Bird & Squirrel: On the Run! by James Burks
Bird & Squirrel: On the Run! By James Burks Graphix (Scholastic) ISBN: 9780545312837 $8.99 Grades 2-4 In Stores August, 2012 Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library When the cover of a book looks like the graphic novel equivalent of Angry Birds (an astute observation I can’t take credit for – that was Cindy […]
Review: The Shark King by R. Kikuo Johnson
The Shark King By R. Kikuo Johnson TOON Books (Candlewick Press) ISBN: 9781935179160 $12.95 Grades 1-3 In Stores Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library I feel like the 21st century has not been kind to myths and legends. There’s so much “meta”-this and “fractured”-that going on that these classic stories either get lost […]
Books On Film: A Newbery/Caldecott Blast from the Past
Let’s go back a decade. Back to 2002. Back before the Youth Media Awards were the PowerPointed, webcasted event they are today. Back when they held up the winning books. Do you remember the 2002 Newbery and Caldecott winners? Here’s a hint: Click the image to watch. A while back I also posted about the […]
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Nonfiction Monday: Outside Your Window by Nicola Davies
Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature By Nicola Davies Illustrated by Mark Hearld Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763655495 $19.99 Grades PreK-2 In Stores Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library There’s a lot of cookie-cutter children’s lit out there. But there’s also hope. One of my favorite elementary education trends of the 21st […]
Covering the Newbery (#53): The Slave Dancer
Here we are on Monday – the day I like to try my extremely amateur hand at giving Newbery-winning books new covers. It’s a just-for-kicks project that I’m calling Covering the Newbery. Click here for the Covering the Newbery Gallery 1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox Original Cover: My Redo: Verdict: Hmm – I […]
Link Du Jour: Outrage!
While I could post about the craziness that is the banning of The Dirty Cowboy, I’ll instead focus on an excellent post by Letters of Note about the controversial In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak. The post includes a letter from the editor of Night Kitchen, the legendary Ursula Nordstrom, to a librarian who […]
Books On Film: The Card Catalog Lives!
Librarians, please raise your hands. *Hand raised* Lovers of stop-motion animation, please raise your hands. *Hand remains raised* Well, when those two things combine in one video, I suppose this is one of my favorites of the year so far. Created using the massive card catalog at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, this video does […]
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