In reading: Meet Me at the Museum was a recommendation on the Modern Mrs. Darcy podcast and the choice my mother and I made for the epistolary novel category of Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge, which we are completing together this year. I was looking for a readalike for 84 Charing Cross Road or The Guernsey…
On Monday, February 2, the ALA Youth Media Awards will be announced. I’ll be watching the live webcast and chatting with my nerdy friends on Twitter as the announcements are made. I’m interested in all of the awards, for different reasons. The Printz is important to my work in Adolescent Literature. When I look…
There is a huge need for a book like Heidi K. Hammond and Gail D. Nordstrom’s Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books: A Guide to the Illustrations. Those of us who obsessively read and share picture books understand that the art is a powerfully important part of reading and experiencing these stories. We feel…
Next week, I’ll be asking the students in my Children’s Literature class to go to the library and find 10 Caldecott Medal or Honor books to read. In no particular order, here are ten of my favorites: Smoky Night, written by Eve Bunting and illustrated by David Diaz A Sick Day for Amos McGee, written…
Visit Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers to participate in the kidlit version of this weekly meme. On my blog: A curation of my favorite online reading for the week in Sunday Salon 5 Things I Loved About Last Week A review of Lois Ehlert’s new autobiography, The Scraps Book An update on my…
Visit Unleashing Readers and Teach Mentor Texts to find out what others are reading this week. This week on the blog: Sunday Salon, a round-up of online reading a celebration of leisurely Saturday mornings with my PLN why I encouraged one of my college students to abandon a book she didn’t like my contribution to…
This photo is from last year, but I loved that it shows #alamya, The One and Only Ivan, AND the Newbery Medal all trending at the same time! It’s hard to settle down after the excitement of this morning’s ALA Media Awards announcements! I woke up just in time to see the Printz announcement. That’s…
Thanks to Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers for hosting the kidlit version of this weekly meme. This week on my blog, I wrote about the last class of the semester in my Methods course, gave my Methods students some advice for continuing their professional development, and used the Internet for what it’s really made…
We read a bunch of Caldecott Medal and Honor books this week. I am loving the 1950s and 60s and have developed an obsession with Will and Nicolas. Why aren’t their books still in print?? I assumed that some of these books would be familiar to me from my own childhood, but only a couple…
Visit Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers to participate in this weekly kidlit-focused meme. This week, I read A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return, a superb graphic novel/memoir by Zeina Abirached, which I’m considering adding to the syllabus of one of my courses next semester. It would fit in Contemporary Literature, Children’s…
