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Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners by Laurie Keller Henry Holt and Company ISBN 9780805079968 $16.95 Grades 1-3 In Stores (Reviewer pulls out clipboard and pencil) Alright everyone! Looks like we’ve got ourselves the new Laurie Keller book here. I’m just going to go down the list for a second to make sure everything […]
I have an announcement to make: librarians love lists. The Public Library of Westland (MI) recently posted a list of 100 Books Every Child Should Hear Before Starting School. While the title is a mouthful, the list is packed with exceptional titles.
The New York Public Library has posted a list of 100 picture books everyone should know. Good reading for teachers, librarians, and, apparently, everyone else as well.
No Talking by Andrew Clements Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers ISBN 9781416909835 $15.99 Grades 3-6 In stores *Best New Books* Working in a public school, I am around children every day. Here are two facts that I feel I can state from experience: 1. Kids like to talk 2. There is nothing that […]
What Do Wheels Do All Day? by April Jones Prince Illustrated by Giles Laroche Houghton Mifflin Company ISBN 9780618563074 $16.00 Grades K-3 In stores In my job as a school librarian, I am occasionally faced with inquiries about what it is I do. When I began my professional life in aught 5 I was unaware […]
Is aught 7 already coming to a close? Well it must be based on all the kidlit year-end gun jumping going on out there. The A-OK folks at Publishers Weekly just put out there year end list, and I have to say that I approve of both their list- and decision- making skills.
(Ringing a giant bell) Here ye, here ye, all lovers of kidlit adapted for the silver screen: The City of Ember, the wonderful sci-fi/dystopia book by Jeanne Duprau is quietly being turned into a film. Now I am not what you would call a lover of most children’s books turned flicks. In fact, I have […]
Sardine in Outer Space by Emmanuel Guibert Illustrated by Joann Sfar First Second (an imprint of Roaring Brook Press) ISBN 9781596431263 $12.95 Ages 7-12 In stores As many librarians will tell you, “give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Give a child an age-appropriate graphic novel and it will circulate […]
It all began with a little email that went like this: Movie Warning THE GOLDEN COMPASS, a new movie targeted at children, will be released December 7, 2007. This movie is based on a the first book of a trilogy by atheist Philip Pullman. In the final book a boy and girl kill God so […]
Great Estimations by Bruce Goldstone Henry Holt and Company $16.95 ISBN 978-0-8050-74446-8 Ages 7-12 In Stores A couple weeks back we held the annual book fair at two of the elementary schools I work at. One of the ways the book fair organizers hyped the kids into a froth was through a little game called […]
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