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100 Scope Notes is up on the shelf until January 6. Until then, let’s sit by the fire in our union suits and count down the most popular posts of the year. Click the image below to read.
It’s time to take a look back at the year that was in children’s lit miscellanea. (Read previous Year in Miscellanea Posts: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008) Most Disgusting Moment in a Children’s Book The tapeworm scene in Akissi: Feline Frenzy I dare you to find a more memorable, shocking, hilarious scene in a children’s book this year. Tweet […]
We’ve covered my K-2 and 3-4 schools – today we wrap up this look back at the year that was with the most circulated books at my 5th and 6th grade school. A few expected, a few unexpected – all of them popular among this age group. 10. All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary […]
Don’t even think about dipping that brush. It’s time to once again take an unvarnished look at the most popular books at my school libraries this year. Last time out, we covered 3rd-4th grade. This time around, we’re looking at books for the lower elementary crowd, grades K-2. 10. Boo Hoo Bird by Jeremy Tankard […]
The end of the school year is a crazy time, I tell you. All of a sudden, things that would never appear in a teacher’s lounge at any other time, things like this… …all of a sudden show up. But I’d like to focus on a non-slushie order of business today – popular books. I’ve […]
Back in the halcyon days of the late aughts, A Fuse #8 Production’s Top 100 Picture Books and Top 100 Chapter Books polls were daily required reading for any children’s lit supporter worth their salt. Consider that the warm-up. Process perfected and team of number-crunchers assembled, the Top 100 lists are making a triumphant return. […]
The bookends are being collected: It’s a good time to review the most popular books of the school year. Click here for the Top 10 3-4 Books Click here for the Top 10 K-2 Books Click here for the Top 10 K-4 Books Today we have the most circulated results from the 5th and 6th […]
When two of the four school libraries where I work are being packed up for summer renovations and things look like this: It’s time to take a look at the most circulated books of the year. Click here for the Top 10 K-2 Books Click here for the Top 10 K-4 Books The focus today […]
The books are packed. I guess we’re done with check-out for the year. Time to take a look back. Yesterday’s list of the most circulated books at my K-2 school (click here to see it) was a bit of a rarity – hardly any books from the same series. Much more common is the repetitive […]
The end of the school year is almost here, and amid the wild race to the finish which this year includes filling these… …I want to take a look back at the books that kids checked out most. Since I work at 4 schools organized by grade level, I’m going to do a post for […]
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