Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s topic? Top Ten Underrated Titles or Hidden Gems. What makes a book underrated? I was planning to be guided by my own intuition, but Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers took a statistical approach that seems far more sound:…
Visit Unleashing Readers and Teach Mentor Texts to participate in the kidlit version of this weekly meme. On my blog: A curation of online reading, including dragon-shaped hedges, 50 Cent, and how to draw Even in a difficult week, there was plenty to celebrate My three favorite books on writing A review of Deborah Hopkinson’s…
Visit Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers to participate in the kidlit version of this weekly meme. On my blog: My garden comes to life in a gardening slice of life Cats lost and found for Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday Want to read more middle grade? I have resources to get you started Most popular middle-grade titles…
I’ve always shared books with the students in my Children’s and Adolescent Literature courses, but this semester, I got serious about booktalking. I’m an ace book matchmaker, but I’ve never been good at booktalking. As my students know, when I really love a book, I have a hard time articulating why. If I love it…
My middle-grade summer reading stack I fell in love with middle grade last year, when I realized that it’s the most consistent category of books I read in terms of providing #booklove: reading middle grade, for me, means reading book after book after book that I love. Are there any duds?? At first, I just thought…
Visit Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers to participate in the kidlit version of this weekly meme. On my blog this week: Sunday Salon, a round-up of online reading 5 Things I Loved About Last Week Top Ten Book Covers I’d Want to Frame as Art In reading: How did I miss Joan Bauer’s Almost…
Several students in my Adolescent Literature course have a dilemma: they’ve discovered a new favorite author, and in just four short months, they’ve already read all of his books. And now what? Summer reading plans beckon, yet there is no more John Green to be found. Luckily, there is no reason to despair while waiting…
Visit Unleashing Readers and Teach Mentor Texts to participate in the kidlit version of this weekly meme. On my blog this week: Sunday Salon should have been called Monday Salon, since it was a day late, but at least I got it posted! I looked forward a couple of weeks to the start of summer…
Visit Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers to participate in the kidlit version of this weekly meme. On my blog this week: Sunday Salon, a round-up of online reading A celebration of 5 Things I Loved About Last Week A couple of nonfiction picture books that inspire curiosity I read so many good books this week:…
Gary Anderson at What’s Not Wrong? shows off his classroom’s Book Graffiti Wall. Wondering if I could get something like this set up in one of the hallways in my building. I like what Jackie Gerstein has to say about the teacher as “model learner”. Kristen Swanson’s post about Empowerment is a good follow-up to…
the dirigible plum 