A Year of Reading

The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing has come and gone, but these books need a belated spotlight. Moonshot: The Flight of Ap...

I love discovering great new nonfiction books, especially when a great new book leads me to an author who is new-to-me. Last week I pi...

The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.   ~ Chinese Proverb My Favorite Subject i...

Invite others to wonder with you.  ~Austin Kleon Astronomical Passions Black holes! Galaxies! Space! The Universe will i...

Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up by Sally M. Walker illustrated by William Grill Candlewick Press, 2018 In the author's blu...

Horses (Updated Edition) by Seymour Simon HarperCollins, 2017 Water by Seymour Simon HarperCollins, 2017 "Simon may h...

How will your students know that graphic novels are a format and not a genre , unless you have titles that are history , memoir , and now......

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by John 'K' As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse by Billy Collins I pick an orange from a wick...

11 Experiments That Failed by Jenny Offill & Nancy Carpenter I can't wait to start celebrating failure with a new group of fi...

I'm always looking for good videos for my students.  As we expand our understanding of what it means to be a reader in this digital...

Winter Bees: & Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman illustrated by Rick Allen HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014 As I noted y...

Last May, we took our 3rd graders to the Columbus Zoo on a field trip. We have a great zoo in Columbus so it s always a great trip. But la...

218 poems by 78 poets! The same wonderful format as the K-5 and 6-8 editions, with a poem a day for each grade level AND a "Take F...

The day after our two snow days, one of my students brought in lots of books about a new interest--rocks and minerals. He had gone to th...

The Pet Project: Cute and Cuddly Vicious Verses by Lisa Wheeler illustrated by Zachariah OHora Atheneum Books for Young Readers (April...

Seeds, Bees, Butterflies, and More!: Poems for Two Voices by Carole Gerber illustrated by Eugene Yelchin Henry Holt and Co. (February...

Today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere). Today, the reason for the season has nothing to do w...

Go, Go, Grapes! A Fruit Chant by April Pulley Sayre Beach Lane Books, 2012 I said it last year when I reviewed Rah, Rah, Radish...

The Big Idea Science Book DK Publishing, 2010 review copy provided by the publisher I think this encyclopedia of science has a lot of po...

Ask Dr. K. Fisher about Creepy-Crawlies by Claire Llewellyn illustrated by Kate Sheppard first published in Great Britain published in the U...