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Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Nationalities In The Title
This one started off a little tricky and then as I dug deeper into it, I found my niche! I decided to pull all YA titles. I don’t think YA titles get a lot of play, especially backlist titles that people might overlook. And as I was going about collecting…
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Chapter Book Genres: Realistic Fiction
So, last month I focused on highlighting genres for our picture book readers, this month I’ll be focusing on newly independent readers and offering up some genre suggestions in the chapter book arena. Let’s start with what is a chapter book. While the term gets thrown around for any book…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Places I’ve Visited
For this week’s prompt, I decided to share some of the beautiful libraries I’ve visited on my travels around the United States! (There are also amazing libraries worldwide that I’ve visited, but I decided to keep this “close”). When I visit a big city, I try to make a point…
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Chapter Book Genres: Fantasy
So, last month I focused on highlighting genres for our picture book readers, this month I’ll be focusing on newly independent readers and offering up some genre suggestions in the chapter book arena. Let’s start with what is a chapter book. While the term gets thrown around for any book…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Book Series I Want to Catch Up On
I am notoriously horrible at reading series. I am not great at remembering the details of storylines and usually by the time I get to the next book in a series, I’ve read a number of other things in between and can’t remember the details of the last book! Or,…
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Chapter Book Genres: Science Fiction
So, last month I focused on highlighting genres for our picture book readers, this month I’ll be focusing on newly independent readers and offering up some genre suggestions in the chapter book arena. Let’s start with what is a chapter book. While the term gets thrown around for any book…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Romance Novels Published Over the Last 10 Years
Today’s official prompt is “Books I Was Reading On This Day Over the Last Ten Years” and while I try to track my reading as best as I can, I’m not that good! I’m lucky if I remember to at least get the title written down! So, other suggestions for…
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Chapter Book Genres: Mystery
So, last month I focused on highlighting genres for our picture book readers, this month I’ll be focusing on newly independent readers and offering up some genre suggestions in the chapter book arena. Let’s start with what is a chapter book. While the term gets thrown around for any book…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Cover Freebie (YA Releases for Fall 2026)
Today’s prompt is a Cover Freebie, which means we get a little creative license to decide what direction we want to go! And, since I’m exhausted, I decided to go for the easiest route I could – promoting some upcoming releases in the YA book world! Check out these YA…
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Picture Book Genres: Realistic Fiction
While genres become more of an interest as kids become independent readers, I love the idea of sharing picture books that can also fall into genres as well. And maybe your young readers don’t have a strong opinion about the genres they read, I think exposing them to a wide-variety…
