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Neil Gaiman on Libraries
Neil Gaiman, popular author of Coraline, recently had a lecture published on the importance imagination, public libraries and daydreaming is vital to our future. Definitely take the time to read the full lecture, posted on The Guardian’s website. This lecture that Gaiman presented, is in essence, a love letter to…
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Stop, Drop, & Read!
Our library partnered with the middle school on this really fun idea called “Stop, Drop, and Read!” We encouraged the middle school students to meet at the mall on Saturday afternoon for a Flash Mob event, but rather than singing, dancing, or the surprise engagement, we asked the kids to…
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Choosing to Read: Connecting Middle Schoolers to Books
Choosing to Read: Connecting Middle Schoolers to Books by Joan Schroeder Kindig is a wonderful professional resource for teachers, librarians, and even parents interested in middle schoolers and their reading habits. Like many other professional resources I have been reading recently, Kindig argues that a reader’s choice is the most…
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Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader
Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader by Melissa Taylor is a quick resource guide with some great ideas to do just what the title says, to get a reluctant reader to become an enthusiastic reader. Under 150-pages, I read this book from cover to cover…
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Open This Little Book
This book is such a fun surprise when you open it. I have seen this title flit across the blogs and book reviews, but I didn’t realize its structure until I opened it up and began to read. Inside you’ll find the first on many “little” books, this one being…
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Fun Friday Program
As we began making plans for this winter, I decided that we had a great opportunity to provide to our elementary age students once a month on a Friday afternoon. Our school district gives the children a half day on a the second Friday of every month, giving the teachers…
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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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Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to NOT Reading
I must have been in a pretty specific mood late last week when I picked my books to read for the weekend. Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to NOT Reading written by Tommy Greenwald has a similar feel to yesterday’s post about the book Middle School – The Worst Years of…
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The Reading Promise
I cannot say enough about the book The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma. Let me start by giving you a little bit of the background, Alice Ozma was named for two very famous literary characters – Alice from Alice in Wonderland and Ozma…