Sometimes you see a book and go… What follows are the books coming out in December, January, and February that made me do that. Picture Books Doug Unplugged by Dan Yaccarino February 12 | Knopf | Grades K-3 Is ditching technology for real life an emerging children’s lit trend? 2012 standout hello! hello! nicely builds [...]
Look…Look Again! By John O’Brien Boyds Mills Press ISBN: 9781590788943 $18.95 Grades 2-4 In Stores Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Absurdity is largely wasted on adults. While us grown-ups tend to favor sense to nonsense, the logical to the illogical, kids can be surprisingly comfortable with non sequiturs. In Look…Look Again! John O’Brien [...]
We step into the 2000s with today’s entry… Visit the Covering the Newbery gallery. 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Original Cover: My Re-do: Side by Side: Up next week: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Source image: “Arrivederci Milano Ciao” by annie:malahus http://flic.kr/p/78mDFx)
November 9 marks five years since I started this blog. I like to celebrate big occasions like any school librarian – by gathering and analyzing data! I put up a reader poll (a.k.a. “got this party started”) last week, tabulated the results (a.k.a. “turned on Ginuine’s My Pony”), and created an unintentionally creepy-looking amalgam of [...]
Visit the Covering the Newbery gallery. 1999: Holes by Louis Sachar Original Cover: My Re-do: Side by Side: Up next week: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher’s Weekly is the first of the major journals to name their best books of the year. Click here for Children’s Picture Click here for Children’s Fiction Click here for Children’s Nonfiction
Okay, I’m ready. It’s the second of November and I’m ready for every Best of 2012 list you got. First up… Thanks to the fine folks at The Horn Book I learned that one of my favorite lists of the year, the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books, has been announced. I like. It [...]
The monthly showing of books on hold (including the shelf from one of my schools) is up for all to see at Watch. Connect. Read. Click here to see the books kids are lining up to read.
We all know and love the Brain Burps About Books podcast, right? The children’s lit focused brainchild of author/illustrator Katie Davis has been going strong for a couple years now. But what to do after you’ve already listened to the latest Brain Burps episode? I was recently alerted to Intersect, a brand new podcast that [...]
INTRODUCING THE RANDOM PENGUIN Two of the world’s largest publishers, Random House and Penguin, appear to be joining forces. I’m not the first to say it, but I’m disappointed they didn’t go with the name Random Penguin for the new venture. Really missed the boat on that one. Click here to read. MAKE A GOOD(READS) [...]
Next week marks the fifth anniversary of when I started this blog, I’d like to finally find out who reads this thing. I’ve seen reader polls on other sites and they look like a good time. Not Battle of the Bookmarks good, but still pretty good. Therefore! If you’re up for a little pre-election polling [...]
Visit the Covering the Newbery gallery. 1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Original Cover: My Re-do: Side by Side: Up next week: (Oh, boy…) Holes by by Louis Sachar (Source image: “15-04-10 You Are So Magnetic, You Pick Up All The Pins” by Bethan http://flic.kr/p/7THEyW)
The monthly look at what’s popular in the school library is back – this month, the #holdshelf gallery will be hosted by our nation’s foremost school librarian, John Schumacher, at Watch. Connect. Read. Here’s how it works: Before Friday, November 2, locate the hold shelf in your library. Take picture. Share it by either of these methods: Email [...]
Make Magic! Do Good! By Dallas Clayton Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763657468 $17.99 Grades K-3 In Stores Nov. 13, 2012 Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Sometimes, it’s nearly impossible to separate art from its creator. The work and the person who made it are so intertwined it’s difficult to tell where the personality [...]
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