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It is my great pleasure to write about The Sea of Tranquility today. I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a book quite so much. I read it at the same time as a few other books because I wanted it to last. Each time I checked something while writing the review I got caught [...]
I am a big fan of the talented, adorable and slightly wacky author/illustrator/kidlit blogger/podcaster Katie Davis. I am also a big fan of the slightly wacky, digital animation tool PowToon with its cool themes, props, animated characters and transitions. So what happens to the equation when a popular picture book author/illustrator partners with digital, comic-based presentation/video maker platform? [...]
What better time to host a publisher’s preview than BEA? Fans of all things literary are in town for the big show, and everyone’s got books on the brain. Candlewick Press held its librarian preview at Bank Street College of Education in New York City on May 30.
Bookmarked, SLJ's teen review group, comes up with three terrific titles to recommend, each completely different from each other, but all compelling stories. Get Stephanie Kuehn's Charm & Strange, Maurene Goo's Since You Asked, and Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything on your library shelves-your teens will thank you for it.
This month's publications include a range of titles about people, places, and things, in tantalizing formats and glorious color. In both text and images, they're eye-openers, each one likely to whet readers' appetites and send them to the bookshelves looking for more information on the topics they explore.
Want to keep kids occupied and reading all summer? Share these craft and activity books with them. In addition to offering an outlet for creativity, they'll have children working with numbers and decoding and interpreting diagrams and symbols. The books also make excellent resources for adults leading summer programs and year-round groups.
The Moon And More by Sarah Dessen. Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA). 2013. Reviewed from ARC from publisher. The Plot: It’s the summer after high school graduation, and everything in Emaline’s life is the same as it ever was. She’s working at her grandmother’s beach rental property business. She’s hanging out with Luke, [...]
From a scratchy nib pen to splatter from a toothbrush, author illustrator Matt Phelan describes the special quality he derives from using traditional media in this clip recorded at School Library Journal's Day of Dialog.
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