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Third Grade Picture Book Read-Alouds 16 Aug 2013 | 11:38 pm
The last school year was a good one for reading aloud with third graders. After participating in an online class on the Caldecott Medal and a workshop on the "whole book approach" at the Eric Carle Mu...
Good Morning, and Happy 4th 5 Jul 2013 | 02:06 am
Yawn. Stretch. Um, good morning. It's March 16th, right? Snow still on the ground? (My last post was on March 15th.) What! It's July 4th? So, that's what all the noise is about. Oh, dear. I have ....
Ides of March Award Roundup, 3.15.13 15 Mar 2013 | 05:06 pm
For all you list-crazy folks, here are some more awards and finalists that I've heard about in the last couple of weeks. CILIP Carnegie Medal shortlist. This UK award is the equivalent of the Newbery....
Catching Up 27 Feb 2013 | 09:55 pm
Hey, y'all! I hibernated for a few weeks during the cold weather, and then the robins returned and reminded me that it's almost spring and time to post. This morning, though, whew. We're having quite ...
Newbery, Caldecott Tomorrow 27 Jan 2013 | 09:14 pm
The Caldecott and Newbery Medals, the two most prestigious awards for US children's literature, will be announced tomorrow (Monday, January 28th) morning at a meeting of the American Library Associati...
Poetry Friday: Copy What? 25 Jan 2013 | 08:36 pm
I worry about copyright. Do I have permission to post an entire work, a photograph, a painting by a poet? A lyricist? An artist? Public domain? What's that? Fair Use? Who's she? Is Intellectual Proper...
Weekend Poetry: Chicken Spaghetti 20 Jan 2013 | 02:53 am
Photograph by Saroy. Source: Flickr. Used under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDervivs 2.0 Generic license. When I started this blog in 2005, my first idea was to make the...
"The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap" 13 Jan 2013 | 07:55 am
Although we take satisfaction in being a safe place for people to tell their stories, please don't get the impression that running a bookshop is all bittersweetness and light. Much of it is dusting an...
For Picture Book Fans: Charlotte Zolotow Award 2013 11 Jan 2013 | 07:17 pm
The Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the winner of the 2013 Charlotte Zolotow Award, which honors picture book text: Each Kindness, written by Jacque...
Listening to Books, January 2013 11 Jan 2013 | 12:46 am
Over at Booklist's Audiobooker blog, I came across a great roundup of lists of best audiobooks of the year. In the Guardian I see that there's a new collection of Ian Fleming's first seven James Bond ...
