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2018 Blogging A to Z: Theme Reveal
Although I missed the official theme reveal last Monday, I still want to take a second and reveal my theme for this year’s Blogging from A to Z Challenge. I participated for the first time last year creating 26 blog posts for storytime planning with great stories and rhymes to…
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2017 Anna Dewdney Read Together Award Finalists
The first annual Anna Dewdney Read Together Award finalists were announced last week and I didn’t get a chance to post this yet, so here goes. Anna Dewdney, children’s book author and illustrator, most well-known for her series Llama Llama passed away last year of brain cancer at the age of…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I'd Love to Meet
I’ve been so lucky to meet some of my favorite authors already (conferences, BEA, festivals, etc.) But I wanted to create a list of authors that I haven’t yet met that I’d really love to meet in person! Anna McQuinn – Her Lola & Leo series is one of my…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/27/17
I finally finished Carmer and Grit: The Wingsnatchers by Sarah Jean Horowitz – it took me quite a while to finish and it wasn’t because I didn’t enjoy reading it, for whatever reason it just took me some time. It’s the perfect book if you have a middle grade reader who likes fairies…
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24 Young Adult Books Featuring Black Protagonists
My goal was to get this list out during Black History Month, but in all honesty, these are amazing books that can be read any time of the year. Like my chapter book list, this list includes historical fiction, realistic fiction, and fantasy novels with characters that are Black or…
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SLJ's Battle of the Kids' Books
Where do I even begin? This somehow got past me this year, so we’re in the think of round 1 matches right now. A little background behind this fun event – The School Library’s Battle of the Kids’ Books is a competition among 16 of the very best titles published…
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Federal Budget Cuts, or What Is the IMLS?
As I promised in a previous post, this is not a blog to become political, but it is a blog to be educated about library issues and this issue is too big to ignore. This post is longer than usual, but I really want people to understand what the IMLS…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books Read In One Sitting
Granted, I probably didn’t read all of these in one setting, but most I read in large chunks and just couldn’t put down! Check out these awesome titles. Dory Fantasmagory by Abby Hanlon Weekends with Max and His Dad by Linda Urban Wish by Barbara O’Connor Moo by Sharon Creech Ghost by…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/20/17
Still didn’t get to a lot of reading this week – we had friends stay over during our snowstorm, which only led to a lot of shoveling and very little reading and then my mom came to visit for a long weekend which also lent itself to very little reading.…
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Women’s History Month Booklist
In honor of Women’s History Month, here are 20 picture book biographies about awesome women! Enjoy! Here Come the Girl Scouts!: The Amazing All-True Story of Juliette ‘Daisy’ Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure by Shana Corey, illustrated by Hadley Hooper Frida by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Ana Juan Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True…