MORE POSTS FROM MAY 2012
How Many Jelly Beans? A Giant Book of Giant Numbers By Andrea Menotti Illustrated by Yancey Labat Chronicle ISBN: 9781452102061 $18.99 Grades K-4 In Stores Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library You gotta like books with guts. Books that are willing to throw caution to the wind in terms of format or content […]
The weekly cover red0-athon known as Covering the Newbery continues today with the fourth book in a beloved fantasy series. Just for kicks, lets look at a few of the covers that have graced The Grey King over the years: Click here for the Covering the Newbery Gallery 1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper […]
Want to make things interesting at your next gathering of teachers or school librarians (F.Y.I.: a group of teachers is known as a “quiz”, school librarians, a “bun”)? Slowly and clearly utter the words “reading level” and watch what happens. The role of educators in guiding student reading has always been a matter of debate […]
The Giant Seed Arthur Geisert Enchanted Lion ISBN: 9781592701155 $14.95 Grades K-2 In Stores Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Don’t repeat yourself. In literature, we hear that a lot, right? Authors shouldn’t dip their bucket in the same well too many times, lest things get old. The audience gets bored. I would […]
Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems By Gail Carson Levine Illustrated by Matthew Cordell Harper (HarperCollins) ISBN: 9780061787256 $15.99 Grades 2-5 In Stores Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library Check out these excellent reviews of Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: A Fuse #8 Production, A Year of […]
THIS VERSUS THAT There’s a lot of talk these days about e-books versus print books. But this isn’t the first time book technology has been a topic of debate. The New Yorker recently published a cartoon that comments on today, by calling upon the past. Click here to read it. (Thanks to LISNews for the […]
You know what’s an odd sight? To see an author for young people as a guest on a talk show. Doesn’t seem to happen much, does it? Can we at least get a Suzanne Collins on Conan or something? Given this fact, it was nice to see Judy Blume as a guest on the Tavis […]
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