A Year of Reading

Liesl Shurtliff is a favorite author here at A Year of Reading. Franki has reviewed Rump , Jack , and Grump . Liesl has a...

I received a review copy of Josh Funk 's new book, It's Not Jack and the Beanstalk , in the mail last week. I laughed out loud as...

This is one of a series of blog posts that continue the conversation around  Still Learning to Read --teaching reading to studen...

Matt Phelan is an amazing graphic novelist. He does so much with so little: gestures, facial expressions, cinematic pacing and effects (zoo...

I have several 3rd graders who are hooked on fairy tale novels. I think most of them were hooked with the Whatever After series early in t...

Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists Edited by Chris Duffy First Second, on shelves September 24, 2013 ...

Poetry Plus...Fairy Tales Grumbles from the Forest: Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist by Jane Yolen and Rebecca Kai Dotlich illustratio...

I love kids' books that incorporate kid-sized literary references! Here are two fairy tales that require the reader to remember other st...

Clever Jack Takes The Cake by Candace Fleming illustrated by G. Brian Karas Random House (Schwartz & Wade), 2010 Review copy provide...