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Instagramming an Author Visit: Arnie the Doughnut Creator Laurie Keller
This week author-illustrator Laurie Keller (she of Arnie the Doughnut fame) paid a visit to my school. I have the photos to prove it. Usually I put a visiting author’s name up on the marquee outside. But with knee-deep (nay, waist-deep) snow, that was a no-go. So, as a show of goodwill toward Ms. Keller, [...]
Review: The Lion and the Bird by Marianne Dubuc
The Lion and the Bird By Marianne Dubuc Enchanted Lion Books ISBN: 9781592701513 $17.95 Grades PreK-1 In Stores May 13, 2014 Find it at: Schuler Books | Your LIbrary Pretty much by definition, quiet books tend to fly under the radar. Some rightfully so, as the wick is turned down so low it struggles to [...]
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Tales: Vintage Tales from Disney's Most Popular Animated Short Films
K-Gr 3—Originally published in Good Housekeeping in the 1930s and early '40s, this collection of more than 50 retellings of vintage Disney animated shorts features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, and the "Silly Symphony" series...
Morning Notes: Avert Your Eyes Edition
SO NEW I love checking out the annual Publishers Weekly Fall Sneak Peeks, a lengthy list of children’s books on the horizon. All kinds of exciting stuff coming. Click here to take a look. YOU CAN’T DO THAT IN AMERICA Sometimes, it takes a French children’s literature controversy to remind us just how different our [...]
“I Verse You”
Head-to-head competition in literature isn’t anything new, but the idea of pitting two characters/things against each other in the title of a book is a continuing trend in children’s literature (and perhaps literature in general). While it’s far from the first book to bring out the “vs.”, I think the book that really helped put [...]
#Headoverthere for #Holdshelf
What books are kids putting on hold in libraries around the country? The February #Holdshelf gallery at Watch. Connect. Read. has the answers. Click here to have a look.
Nonfiction Monday: The Scraps Book by Lois Elhert
The Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life By Lois Ehlert Beach Lane Books (Simon & Schuster) ISBN: 9781442435711 $17.99 Grades K-5 In Stores Find it at: Schuler Books | Your Library If you’re thinking of challenging an illustrator to an autobiography-off, just don’t. Oh, you already did it? Look, there’s no shame in bending [...]
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