Category: top ten lists
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11 Things about Me as a Blogger: Slice of Life #sol19 1/31
One. I started blogging in November 2012, not coincidentally when I was at my first NCTE conference. My very first post was called Writing Advice from John Green’s Dad and my mom left my only comment. “11 Things About Me as a Blogger” will be my 1,066th blog post. Two. The title of my blog…
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18 Favorite Reads of 2018
2018 was a good year for reading. While I didn’t have as many “this is the BEST BOOK EVER” reading experiences as I sometimes do, I did like nearly everything I read. So there may not have been as many highs, but there weren’t that many lows either. With picture books included, I read over…
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“I Cried So Many Times:” Favorite Reads from a Children’s Literature Course
For their final exam, the preservice elementary teachers in my Children’s Literature course compile and present their Top 10 lists for the semester. This is a course with no required texts but fairly intense independent reading requirements. I love seeing what they’ve read and what they’ve loved–and it’s easily one of the best assessments I’ve…
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10 Podcasts I Enjoyed in 2017
Every other blogger is busy setting goals, making resolutions, and planning for 2018, while I’m still wrapping up 2017. But that’s okay. Podcasts were a big part of my year in 2017. It’s probably not going too far to call it an obsession. While I continued listening to old favorites, I also found several new…
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Top 10 Books I Read in 2017
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. 2017 felt like a down year in reading for me. Numbers down, interest down, time invested in reading down. But I’m not sure that’s really true. I managed a picture book a day as well as 100+ other books completed (and probably 100 more…
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17 Favorite Picture Books of 2017
2017 was another strong year for picture books. As I compiled my top 10 list, I realized that there’s nothing that I’m quite as passionate about as I was about my top two picture books from 2016, They All Saw a Cat and Radiant Child, though Town Is by the Sea comes close. But still. There…
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Top 10 Things on My Reading Wishlist
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. First on my list is a book I will love as much as Uprooted, The Sorcerer and the Crown, and Ancillary Justice. They’re all fantasy/sci-fi but otherwise fairly different books. They’re alike, however, in being books that I never wanted to end.…
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Top Ten Favorite Choices from the 2017 ALA Youth Media Awards
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is a Freebie, so I decided to celebrate the ALA Youth Media Awards, which were announced yesterday. Like so many other teachers and librarians I know, I was up early to watch the announcements live. It’s one…
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Top Ten Hidden Gems for Middle-School Readers
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:…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: 10 Favorites from 2016
I was off my nonfiction picture book game in 2016, but even though I wasn’t posting weekly reviews, I was still reading. Here are my 10 favorite nonfiction picture book titles from the year. RBG! It’s probably not even possible to write a bad book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg; she’s just too interesting of a…
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