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12 Picture Books for Pink Shirt Day
I came across Pink Shirt Day a few years ago and posted about it. It has now become one of my most popular posts which I’m grateful even if it makes me a little sad. According to the statistics on the Pink Shirt Day website, 1 in 5 children are…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Superpowers
When I first started thinking about Bookish Superpowers, my mind went immediately to fantasy novels with main characters that had magical abilities, but rather, this theme is about superpowers that have to do with books, not necessarily found in books. And I’ll admit, this was a trickier theme for me…
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2023 CYBILS Awards Winners
The CYBILS Awards have been announced and I’m so excited to share some great books for all ages! “The CYBILS Awards aims to recognize children’s and YA authors and illustrators whose books combine the highest literary merit and popular appeal.” The winners are selected by a group of volunteer judges…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2024 Contemporary Romance Titles
Today’s a love freebie for Top Ten Tuesday and what a perfect choice for the day before Valentine’s Day. In the past, I’ve highlighted middle grade friendships, first crushes in middle grade books, fun romance reads, and picture books about self-love, and picture books for Valentine’s Day. Today, I’m excited…
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February Read Alouds
January’s read alouds received a number of reviews and even a comment (which doesn’t happen often!), so I’m back with a list of February read alouds filled with 29 picture books to celebrate important, wacky, sentimental, and silly holidays every day of the month! I’m not taking all the credit,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Quick Kids’ Nonfiction
Today’s theme was quick reads or books to read when time is short and I’ve done a similar book list for middle grade titles, so I wanted to take some time to try something a little different. Today I focused on quick nonfiction reads that I think are not only…
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16 Read Alikes for Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fans
The first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book was published way back in 2007 and since then there have been 17 other Wimpy Kid books released. To this day, they are still the most popular juvenile fiction chapter books in my library. I just ran some statistics for last year…
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Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2023
I spent a lot of time reading contemporary romance titles in 2023 and discovered a bunch of new-to-me authors this past year. I love how easy contemporary romances are to read, you always know the general format and what’s going to happen, but I love discovering new characters and settings.…
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2024 Debut Young Adult Authors
It’s my favorite time of the year when my TBR list grows exponentially with all the amazing new books being published this year. For the past few years, I’ve made it a goal of mine to share debut authors’ and illustrators’ works. It is extremely difficult to get published and…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read in 2023 But Didn’t Get To
I’m really hoping to read more middle grade novels this year and I’d love to start with some of these titles. These books were all published in 2023. And I’m excited because a bunch of these titles just won awards this morning at the ALA Youth Media Awards! I’ve been…
