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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 […]
#20-16 | #15-11 | #10-6 | #5-1 10. The Chicken Thief by Beatrice Rodriguez [Enchanted Lion] Published in France in 2005 as Le Voleur de Poule, this wordless picture book takes readers on an adventure through a forest, up and down a mountain, across an ocean, and into Fox’s lair. Why? Because Bear, Rabbit, and […]
#20-16 | #15-11 | #10-6 | #5-1 15. Farm by Elisha Cooper [Orchard] Take a Midwestern farm, add a family, toss in animals, some machinery, and show how it changes through the seasons. Sounds like a traditional farm picture book, right?  Perhaps. It becomes extraordinary, however, when you add Elisha Cooper’s impeccable watercolor and pencil […]
Warning! This is gonna be a love fest. Over four days, fellow school librarian John Schumacher and I will bring you our Top 20 children’s books of the year. The list contains books for the Kindergarten through sixth grade reader, but other than that, anything goes. You’ll see picture books mingling with graphic novels and […]
It’s time to take a look back at the year that was in children’s lit miscellanea. Best Moment of Solidarity: The response to the Speak Controversy An associate professor of management at Missouri State University made some unbelievable comments regarding Laurie Halse Anderson’s Printz honor book, and the response was swift and strong. Best Use […]
A Fuse #8 Production asked, and I sneak in at the last minute with my reply. Such is my custom, friends (p.s. I’m going to start putting this phrase on t-shirts: it’s the “that’s how I roll” for the bookish set). Way back at the beginning of the month, the previously mentioned Fuse hatched a […]
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