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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/8/18
I need a few more hours in every day – I’m not getting as much reading done as I want, but this weekend I had a good excuse. My parents came out for the long weekend to help us re-wire our garage and put up some of the drywall. These…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I’d Like to Meet
I’ve been blessed to meet a number of authors and illustrators in my career at conferences, book festivals and expos. But a few who I would love to meet (and haven’t yet) include the authors below. I chose my list based on the titles they’ve published (which I’ve loved), interviews…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/1/18
What happened to September? I swear it was just Labor Day weekend and now we’re looking at October already! AHHHHHHHH!!!!! I did get the chance to read Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough and it was perfectly fitting to read the week of the Kavanaugh hearing. The story is historical fiction…
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Sharing My Thoughts on Lifelines
This has been a big week, my blog is now being self-hosted with the most amazing little octopus as a mascot (check out why I chose an octopus) and I was interviewed by Ann Braden, author and one half of the amazing team (Saadia Faruqi) that makes up Lifelines: Books That…
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Quotable Kidlit – Natalie Lloyd
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Quotable Kid Lit – Kate DiCamillo
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/24/18
I loved The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart – he has such an amazing way of writing characters that take up space in my heart and all I want to do is hug them! It was beautifully written and one that is sticking with me long after I finished…
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Three on a Theme: Hispanic Heritage Month
I cheated a little bit this week for my Three on a Theme and went with six books – the past three years’ of authors and illustrators who have won the Pura Belpré Award. The Pura Belpré Award “established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose…
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2018 National Book Award Longlist
The 2018 National Book Award Longlist was announced today and although there are a number of areas in which you can check out on the National Book Foundation website, below I’ve listed the Young People’s Literature award. I’ll be honest there are a number of titles on the list that…
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25 Star Reviewed Middle Grade Titles
It’s been a busy week here on the blog – Wednesday I posted about the detriments of assigning books as “boy” or “girl” books and on Thursday I gave some great tips about booktalking/reader’s advisory and today I’m offering a list of titles that have receive at least one star…
