At The Classroom Bookshelf, we champion the read aloud as an essential and joyful part of one’s literacy life.  With World Read Aloud Day fast approaching on February 3rd, we wanted to spotlight this upcoming global book party as a joyful way to lift up the power of books and children’s voices. Whether students are […]

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We speak to Jim Ottaviani on the process of turning Edward O. Wilson's prose autobiography Naturalist into the comic book Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation.

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Story telling is its own mystery, its own puzzle---and it brings with it the thrill of success in figuring out the answers.

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Being unchosen isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, being unchosen taught me how to live.

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Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story) won the 2021 Printz Award, rewarding and bringing great joy to a new publisher and the author, who used the spotlight to try to help others.

Tae Keller's When You Trap a Tiger is the "book of my heart," the author says, and it earned her a Newbery Medal on a day when women swept the prestigious award.  

Author Phil Bildner shares a meaningful moment with a young reader during a school visit early last year.

What makes a country fall to a dictator? How does an entire nation follow an authoritarian leader –a Strongman—down a dangerous and deadly path? How does democracy die?

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This will be an illuminating read for modern teens who may not know much about what it was really like to be a queer teen in the 1950s.

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