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Travis Jonker, December 23, 2025 | Articles
Counting down the Top 10 posts of the year.
Travis Jonker, December 22, 2025 | Articles
Counting down the Top 10 posts of the year.
Travis Jonker, December 19, 2025 | News
Over the next two weeks I’ll be sharing the 10 most popular 100 Scope Notes posts during the past year.
Travis Jonker, December 18, 2025 | One Star Review
Can you guess the children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads? I feel this represents an individual who gets engulfed by his ambitions and does not know when to stop which is not a characteristic I would like to convey to my students. Click here for the answer. Why do I share these? […]
Travis Jonker, December 16, 2025 | Books on Film
Two for the price of one!
Travis Jonker, December 15, 2025 | Previews
I sifted through nearly a thousand children’s books coming out in December, January, and February to bring you the ten that most jumped out to me. Let’s get started . . . Picture Books The Rare Bird by Elisha Cooper February 24 | Roaring Brook Press (Macmillan) | Grades K-2 Cooper’s last effort, the excellent […]
Travis Jonker, December 11, 2025 | The Yarn
Newbery winner Rebecca Stead is our guest on the latest episode of The Yarn podcast. We go behind the scenes of Stead’s latest middle grade novel, The Experiment. We also talk about how this year’s Newbery winner, The First State of Being (by Erin Entrada Kelly), was in part inspired by Stead’s 2010 Newbery winner […]
Travis Jonker, December 10, 2025 | Cover Reveal
An interview with John Schu and Holly Hatam, and a cover reveal for their upcoming book, LILY-MAY'S JOYFUL DAY.
Travis Jonker, December 9, 2025 | Articles
Kids have voted! And the winners of our 2026 Mock Caldecott are . . .
Travis Jonker, December 8, 2025 | Articles
It’s time to take a look back at the year that was in children’s lit miscellanea.
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