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Say My Name: Importance of Names
The school year has already started for a lot of kids and if it hasn’t yet, the school year is right around the corner. It’s important to share books about the excitement and anxiety of starting a new school year or riding the bus to school. But, you don’t often…
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Four on Friday: Take a Walk
I start every day taking my pup for a walk in the neighborhood – rain or shine, snow or heat. We’re out there at least to take a jaunt around the block and usually longer to get out her energy before work starts. After work, I get home and the…
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CYBILS Call for Judges – Open NOW!
It’s that time of year! The CYBILS call for judges – open now! The CYBILS or Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards have been annually given for the past 13 years and I was so lucky to be a part of the judging process a few years ago! This…
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Professional Development with the Cardigan Newsletter
I know as a former children’s librarian how difficult it can be to find quality professional development content to keep learning and growing in the job. It’s almost a second job scouring the Internet, reading articles only to find out that it really doesn’t apply to your work. I really,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Tropes
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Tropes is the type of list is always hard for me to write up because I honestly really enjoy most everything I read, but if you had to ask me what my favorite types of stories are they would include a little bit of the following…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/19/19
Last Week I did it! I finished the whole list of MG @ Heart Summer Book Bingo list this week! I’m so glad that I spent my summer reading these amazing titles. And while I was at it, I also read the YA romance, Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh, the…
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6th-8th Grade Back To School Reading List
Response I’d say that there are hundreds, if not thousands of schools across the country with school reading lists that mirror this reading list posted on Twitter by the Florida Department of Education. The list of titles includes a majority of authors that are, for a lack of a better…
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9 Picture Books All About School Buses
School’s not quite back in session in my area, but I’ve already begun to see the school buses out and about. They’re practicing their routes and getting serviced ready to welcome school children aboard in just a few weeks. If your little one is stepping onto a school bus for…
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Four on Friday: Ocean Animals
I’m so enjoying creating these mini-booklists and as a sucker for alliteration, the name works so well for Fridays. Today theme is Four on Friday: Ocean Animals! My favorite animals of all time are dolphins. I love how sleek and smooth they are swimming through the ocean, leaping with such…
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Summer of Nonfiction: Graphic Novels
Nonfiction and graphic novels is a little bit of an oxymoron. Something can’t be classified as a novel and as nonfiction, but I never quite know what to call these books – graphic nonfiction or nonfiction comics? I don’t know. What I do know is that nonfiction titles in a…
