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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…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books You’d Mash Together
American Panda by Gloria Chao and When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Two young women searching for where they fit into the world and not seeing the future their parents want for them. I can completely see these characters fitting together in the same college setting and maybe even being…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Popular Books that Lived Up to the Hype
All of these books are ones that I’ve loved and have read multiple times and all are extremely popular and that popularity is well-warranted. If you haven’t gotten a chance to read any on my list, definitely do yourself a favor and pick up a title or two at your…
