A Year of Reading

The Stone Girl's Story by Sarah Beth Durst Clarion Books, 2018 Mayka's father was a stone mason. He brought her to life by ...

Forever, or a Long, Long Time by Caela Carter HarperCollins, 2017 review copy provided by the publisher This was a Gene Yang "...

Did you ever love a book so much that you deliberately slowed down your reading for the last third so you wouldn't have to come to t...

Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk Dutton Children's Books, 2016 I almost couldn't read this book. The tension and conflict from t...

Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool Delacorte Press, 2013 review copy ARC provided by Cover to Cover Books for Young Readers It...

Can I tell you right off how much I LOVED LOVED LOVED OKAY FOR NOW by Gary Schmidt. I loved every word of this book. I was hooked in the ...

There are so many great books from 2010, that I can't possibly choose the one book I hope to win the Caldecott and Newbery medals. This ...

As Franki reminded us all last week , predicting the Newbery was the reason this blog was born 4 years ago. We started by trying to predict ...

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Wendy Lamb Books, July 2009 review copy provided by Educating Alice's ARC give-away contest (a milli...

Mary Lee: Franki and I had many years worth of Newbery discussions before this blog was ever born. We started by trying to pick the winner. ...

First, the entire Kidlitosphere community is counting down to the announcement of the Cybils shortlists on January 1. The bloggers who h...

So, as you all know, we are never right in predicting the Newbery and I have learned that I can never read all of the books that I read abou...

It is not every year that readers get a book as wonderful as THE UNDERNEATH by Kathi Appelt. I knew after the first few pages that this was...

I’m not afraid of animal stories that might make me cry. I’ve read and reread (with tears streaming down my face) Where the Red Fern Grows,...

We hope you all enjoyed our Newbery Hopefuls series. It certainly gave us lots to read over our winter break. We love all of our friends ...

Today's Newbery predictions come from Sally Oddi, owner of our VERY FAVORITE children's bookstore in the world-- Cover to Cover . (...

Today, we hear from our friend Beth from Cover to Cover. You can tell she is young and hip since she doesn't use capital letters or much...

Today, we hear from Karen--our friend from Cover to Cover . As you know, we love the Cover to Cover staff and they all help us choose books...

Today's predictions come from our friend, Larry Swartz . Larry knows books! Larry Swartz is an instructor in the Elementary Pre -servi...

Bill Prosser is a teacher/librarian, new to the school library this year after many years in the classroom. He is LOVING the change. Here ...