The school where I teach had a door decorating contest this month. The theme: book covers! The awesome 4th grade class I co-teach decided on Wonder by R.J. Palacio. I’ve been reading this to the class a little each day this year, so it was a perfect choice. Here is our finished product.
The fabulous librarian where I teach, once again asked for volunteers to create “Booktalks” for some new Scholastic books. The designated books will get a QR code attached to them in the school library. When the code is scanned by a student using a smartphone, ipad, etc., the book talk video will pop-up on their […]
I took my mom and mother-in-law to brunch today at the beautiful Salamander Resort in Middleburg, Virginia. After filling ourselves with mimosas and several helpings from the ridiculously delicious buffet, we decided to walk around downtown Middleburg and check-out the shops. One tiny building tucked down a side street caught my eye: Second Chapter Books. […]
From the book Love, Splat by Rob Scotton
Time Magazine recently came out with their list of the 100 best children’s books of all time. Of all time? How do you narrow it down to just 100? I think they did a great job and was happy to see some of my favorite newer books like The Day the Crayons Quit by Oliver Jeffers and […]
Look at the stunning Christmas tree created this year by Gleeson Library in San Francisco! They used copies right off their shelves mostly of The National Union Catalog, which looks to be the perfect evergreen color. Fantastic job! Photo by Shawn Calhoun (https://www.flickr.com/photos/shawncalhoun/15427651373/in/photostream/) via freeforcommercialuse.org
The wonderful librarian at the school where I teach, asked the staff for volunteers to record themselves giving a “Booktalk”. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make a fool of myself in the name of children’s literature, so yes, I volunteered. The designated books will get a QR code attached to them in the […]
This was my view over the weekend as I walked along the beach with two of my best friends. We’ve been talking about a girls weekend away since our kids were babies. Our oldest are all in middle school, so it was about time! We relaxed, we laughed, we shopped, we read, I wrote. It was […]
It was one year ago today that my first ever blog post went live! So…happy one year “blogiversary” to me! (Yes, I made-up that word.) My first post was about going after your dreams. It took a ton of courage to put myself out there on this blog and share my goal of becoming a published […]
Blimey! Ahoy there, matey! Better ready ye sea legs. And no hornswaggling or ye walk the plank, ye scallywag! Aargh! Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day! Get in the mood by reading some of these great children’s books about pirates. AARGH!!!!!!!
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