MORE POSTS FROM JUNE 2013
The Big Wet Balloon By Liniers TOON Books ISBN: 9781935179320 $12.95 Grades 1-2 In Stores September 10, 2013 Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Not every sibling relationship is fraught with resentment. Scanning the children’s literature landscape, however, you might forget this is the case. Lately, at least, the reluctant brother or sister […]
“So children’s publishing, how’s your upcoming season?” “I’d say strong … to quite strong.”¹ Publishers (no apostrophe, please) Weekly tells tales of all the high-buzz books coming in this summer and fall. DiCamillo, Willems, Henkes – lots of familiar faces here. Click here to read. *UPDATE* PW also has an excellent gallery of all the […]
When weeding, sometimes you come across a book that makes you think, “this would make a good blog post”. Occasionally, as is the case today, an entire tribute blog seems more appropriate. How about I’ll start with a post and see where this goes. For a moment, let’s bask in the glorious unusualness of Hands […]
You know how you can see something, yet not really notice it? That’s what happened when I came upon this book during an end of the year weeding session in my K-2 school library: In the course of weeding, I’ve come across older books that have quietly stuck around – mostly because they’re classics and […]
Real kids, real books. That’s the gist of this look back at the most popular books in our school libraries this year. Today we round things out with the titles floating boats for 5th and 6th graders. Previously… Top 10 Circulated Books of 2013: K-2nd Grade Top 10 Circulated Books of 2013: 3rd-4th Grade 10. […]
The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards stand apart because… …they don’t look at books published in the typical year (that is, January 1 to December 31), but run on a June 1 to May 31 schedule. …the books must be published in America, but the authors and illustrators can be of any nationality. And, hey, the […]
In May… …I learned a six-second book review is pushing it. I attempted the world’s first book review using 6 second video service Vine. The result? I think I need more Vines. …a heartthrob went missing in the library. Poor Taylor Lautner, the guy appears on a book cover, and it goes missing. […]
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