Tag: top ten lists
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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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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Favorite Books of 2016
It’s time for my favorite post of the year: my top ten favorite reads of the year. Brendan Wenzel’s They All Saw a Cat is by far my favorite picture book of the year. Its simple concept (the cat looks different depending on what kind of animal sees it) contains one of the most important lessons…
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Top Ten Words That Will Make Me Buy a Book: Top Ten Tuesday
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday Rewind invites bloggers to revisit old topics. I went back to April 2013 to find the Top Ten Words/Topics That Will Make Me Buy a Book. Dragons My dragon obsession is fairly new, and luckily, there are many books to catch up on. Still, I prefer the shiny and new.…
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Top 10 Books I’ve Recently Added to My TBR List
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Today’s topic is one I could probably post a list for every single Tuesday: 10 new books I’ve recently added to my TBR list? You mean since yesterday, right? Dave Eggers has a nonfiction picture book AND it’s about why the Golden…
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Top 15 Picture Books of 2015
Photo CC-By duncan c Thanks to a picture book reading binge my son went on during the summer, where we burned through 8 or 12 books a day, I read several hundred picture books in 2015. There were so many great ones, it just wasn’t possible to narrow it down to a Top 10. Well, I’m…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Top 10 Favorite Nonfiction of 2015
There are so many 2015 nonfiction picture book titles that I never got around to this year. If I had followed through on my reading plans, I have a feeling that this list might be very different. Still, in a year that felt like one long reading slump where I quit every reading challenge I…
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Top 10 Graphic Novels for People Who Don’t Read Graphic Novels #GNCelebration
I’m joining A Year of Reading, Kid Lit Frenzy, Assessment in Perspective, and other bloggers in a monthlong celebration of what is possibly my favorite format, graphic novels. Every Thursday throughout the month of October, bloggers throughout the kidlitosphere will celebrate graphic novels. To learn more about this event, check out the Top 10 Reasons…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books on My Fall TBR List
Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. I feel like I shouldn’t even allow myself to participate in this week’s topic, because I’ve only managed to read one of the hotly-anticipated, urgently-must-read-right-now books on my Summer TBR list. SIGH. Something sad happens when I make these Top 10 lists of…
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