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The Whole Story of a Half Girl
The Whole Story of a Half Girl written by Veera Hiranandani grabbed my attention, again due to the cover. It was definitely something I wanted to read and I’m so glad I did! Sonia Nadhamuni’s father loses his job and she is forced to go to public school for 6th grade. Never has her…
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The Boy On Cinnamon Street
I am in love with Phoebe Stone’s cover art for many of her books. I recently read The Romeo and Juliet Code and I just picked up The Boy on Cinnamon Street this weekend. Her cover art is always something that makes me want to pick up her books and…
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Story Time Theme – Orange
This week’s story time theme is the color and the fruit – ORANGE! I have found that color themes are really easy to do because you can find a bunch of stories that incorporate a certain color. This fall I choses orange for the obivous reason that it works really…
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Splendors and Glooms
I’ve seen a number of reviews about this book and they piqued my curiousity because it seemed like from what I read people either really enjoyed the story or were not a fan. I could find very few reviews of the story that were in-between the two extremes. So I was…
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Dear Blue Sky
There are a number of middle grade stories about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but Dear Blue Sky written by Mary Sullivan, is one of the most realistic, heart wrenching, and real accounts of what life is like both for Americans and for people across the globe. The story begins…
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Story Time Theme – Teddy Bears
I am currently providing three different story times for my library – the first is what I call a toddler traditional story time for 2 – 3 1/2 year olds where we read stories, have fingerplays and dance to music, the second is a parachute story time for the same age…
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What To Do If an Elephant Stands On Your Foot
What To Do If an Elephant Stands On Your Foot written by Michelle Robinson and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds is an adorable and hysterical book about safari animals. Similar in style to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie this story is laugh out loud funny and perfect for…
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Happy Banned Book Week
This is the 30th Anniversary of Banned Book Week sponsored in part by the American Library Association (ALA) that celebrates the freedom to read. It’s 2012 and banning books is still a common process in many school libraries and public libraries around the country. For many reasons this surprises me still –…
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Things I Love about Conferences:
Before I begin my conference favorites, let me take care of a few housekeeping things…. I have found that working full-time, finishing up my graduate degree with two classes this fall, trying to have a semblance of a social life, and keeping up with this blog is not always easy,…
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Books & Cooks – Update
So I posted earlier this week about providing a Books & Cooks Program for my middle school students and let me tell you – it was a smashing success! I had 12 kids registered for the program, which would have been perfect – but I ended up with 18 kids! …