Link Du Jour: Library Croquet
Not since the fine folks at HarperCollins UK decided to make history with the worlds longest children’s book domino rally have I seen such thrilling book related balderdash. Look out for the sand trap in the children’s section – I hear it’s treacherous. Break out the wickets!
(Thanks to Stephen’s Lighthouse for the link)
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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As someone who hosts a mean classroom croquet game yearly during our Alice in Wonderland unit I was admit that I was skeptical. But giving them a whole lot of poetic license (the book-wickets and mallets being the only croquet elements — should have been Master of Library Science Golf), I was won over.