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Adorable Children's Lit Posters
I know how I want to wallpaper my house now… with these adorable children’s literature posters from Bookroo! Technically, Bookroo is a subscription service for children’s books, but I am drawn to these simplified book posters and every time they release a new set, I fall in love all over…
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Toddler Storytime Theme: Fun Favorites
The kids were wired for storytime! Because it was Election Day, the kids were out of school because some of the schools in the district act as polling places, so besides the Halloween candy, older siblings came to storytime as well and made it CRAZY! But, the kids by and…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Debut Authors Who Have Me Looking Forward To Their Sophomore Novel
Sadly, I had written a list last week and now can’t seem to find it, so I had to re-create my list again (and couldn’t remember a few of the authors), but I found a few more that I would be excited about as well! Natalie Lloyd, author of A…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Halloween Picture Books
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday was a Halloween freebie and since I focus so often on middle grade novels (which I love), I thought I’d focus on ten Halloween picture books that I personally enjoy. It might have also been decided in this way because I don’t like scary books……
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Fun Friday Program: Happy International Dot Day!
Today is International Dot Day based on the absolutely adorable book, The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. In the story, Vashti is upset because she doesn’t believe that she can draw. With a little encouragement from a teacher, Vashti realizes that she is an artist and begins creating her own masterpieces.…
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Picture Books in the Classroom – Not just for storytime!
I tweeted this story yesterday, but thought that it was so interesting that I wanted to get the chance to comment on it today. Yesterday, on the School Library Journal website they posted an article titled, “Teachers Find Many Reasons to Use Picture Books with Middle and High School Students.” The…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Would Be On Your Syllabus If You Taught EASY READERS 101
So rather than specific titles, I’m going to go ahead and focus on authors, many of who mainly focus on easy readers, but a few who are a little more widespread. I chose to go with Easy Readers because its a section of our library (and many others, I suspect)…
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Reader's Advisory
I love Reader’s Advisory, I read a ton of books and get so excited to share them with the kids in my library. I love reading something and know exactly who I’ll recommend it to, other times I get the chance to talk to someone and pull out a book that…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Fairytale Retellings I've Read
I absolutely love fairtale retellings and fractured fairytales. They’re some of my favorite stories. Below is a list of books I’ve read and there’s a bunch more on my TBR pile. I’m going to try and write up 140-character or less (a la Twitter) descriptions of each book. Find something…
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Toddler Storytime – Summer Week #4
This week by far, the kids liked Now I’m Big! by Karen Katz the best. Every time the story repeated “Now I’m Big!” we reached our hands up to the sky and the kids loved participating in this way. My non-fiction book for the week I Drive a Dump Truck did not go…