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Tracing Stars
Tracing Stars is a coming of age story for a young girl in a small coastal town where being different makes you stand out. Indie Lee Chickory is a fish freak – she’s knows everything there is to know about the fish that can be found in the ocean that borders town. She…
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Seymour Simon’s Extreme Earth Records
I had the privilege of listening to Seymour Simon speak at a conference last year and I was blown away by the number of books he has written and his amazing website filled to the brim with information about almost every topic you could imagine – especially if it has…
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Red Sled
Red Sled by Lita Judge is a perfect story to share with a little one on a cold winter night. Using only onomatopoeia words, or words that are used to describe sounds, Judge can tell an entire story of what happens to a red sled while a child is sleeping. …
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Librarian… one of the least stressful jobs in 2013?!?!?
As per usual, people outside the library field really have no idea what a librarian actually does. CNBC posted the 10 least stressful jobs of 2013 and you guessed it – librarians made the list. Now the acutal list seems to have come from a company called CareerCast. Clcik here…
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Boy + Bot
I’ve seen a lot of blogs posting about this adorable picture book called Boy + Bot written by Ame Dyckman and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino, so I thought I’d take a look and thankfully I was able to find the book on the shelf today. Boy + Bot is a heartwarming story of…
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The Book Whisperer
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller is definitely geared toward elementary and even middle school teachers, but I found it very interesting. Miller makes the case that children will turn into lifelong readers, by choosing what they read and by getting in the habit…
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New Year’s Resolutions
Every year, I, like so many others, jump on the resolutions bandwagon only to fore go my resoultions a few weeks into the new year. This year after some serious consideration, I’ve decided that I’m going to take a break from resolutions and continue to do the things that I…
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2012 Cybils Shortlist
The Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards have announced the shortlist for 2012! Definitely take a look as these are some of the great books published during the past year. Winners will be announced on February 14th and the judges are people who regularly submit to a blog about…
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2012 Nerdies Book Awards
If you don’t follow The Nerdy Book Club blog, you are definitely missing out! The blog is written by three school teachers from different schools across the country and blog book reviews and other information about children’s books. They specifically have created their own awards called The Nerdies Book Awards where books…
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When Santa Fell to Earth
As many others out there do, I drove multiple hours to get to my parent’s house for the Christmas holiday and I have found that if I can find a really good book on CD that the trip goes that much more quickly. As I was perusing the shelves before…