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#blogbookaday: The Great Dictionary Caper
Summary: “When all of the words escape from the dictionary, it’s up to Noah Webster to restore alphabetical order in this supremely wacky picture book that celebrates language. Words have secret lives. On a quiet afternoon the words escape the dictionary (much to the consternation of Mr. Noah Webster) and flock…
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#blogbookaday: Mitford at the Fashion Zoo
Summary: “Mitford is a giraffe. But not your everyday, live-on-the-savannah giraffe. Mitford lives in the city. But not your everyday, filled-with-people city. This city is filled with animals. Animals who like to dress up, especially the animals who work at COVER magazine. Mitford would do ANYTHING to work there. But first…
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#blogbookaday: Ruby’s Chinese New Year
Summary: “In this picture book celebrating Chinese New Year, animals from the Chinese zodiac help a little girl deliver a gift to her grandmother. Ruby has a special card to give to her grandmother for Chinese New Year. But who will help her get to grandmother’s house to deliver it? Will…
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Follow-Up to Sexual Harassment in the Children’s Book Industry Conversation
Not only do I think it’s important to share that sexual harassment is something that is pervasive throughout the society we currently live in, but I also think it’s important to share a heartfelt apology from a man named for sexually harassing women in the comments of the SLJ article.…
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#blogbookaday: Roger Is Going Fishing
Summary: “Roger and his neighbor Emily are heading to the lake to do some fishing. But the city sidewalks are crowded—so crowded that Emily accidentally catches a few things that are decidedly not fish. A small mob starts to chase after her and Roger, but soon everyone discovers that a trip…
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2017 CYBILS Award Winners
Board BooksChanging Faces: Meet Happy Bear by Nathan Thoms, illustrated by Carles Ballesteros Fiction Picture BooksBig Cat, Little Cat by Elisha Cooper Easy ReaderKing & Kayla and the Case of the Secret Code by Dori Hillestad Butler Early Chapter BooksWedgie & Gizmo by Suzanne Selfors Elementary Non-FictionHatching Chicks in Room 6…
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#blogbookaday: BunnyBear
Summary: “Although Bunnybear was born a bear, he feels more like a bunny. He prefers bouncing in the thicket to tramping in the forest, and in his heart he’s fluffy and tiny, like a rabbit, instead of burly and loud, like a bear. The other bears don’t understand him, and neither…
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Share the Love this Valentine’s Day with Book Giving
It’s a day of book love – it’s International Book Giving Day! For International Book Giving Day, it’s easy to participate – give someone a book as a gift or leave a book for a friend, drop off a book in a waiting room or lobby, or donate a book…
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#blogbookaday: Watersong
Summary: “‘In glorious onomatopoeia, Tim McCanna takes the reader on a dazzling journey as a fox seeks shelter from a rainstorm. Drip Drop Plip Plop Pitter Patter Pat. As the rain begins, a little fox seeks shelter. But then it builds and builds into to a torrential storm. Wash! Wham! Lash!…
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ALA Youth Media Awards
Newbery Award – Hello, Universe written by Erin Entrada Kelly Caldecott Award – Wolf in the Snow illustrated and written by Matthew Cordell Coretta Scott King Author Award – Piecing Me Together written by Renée Watson Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award – Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets illustrated by Ekua…