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...

Back in October, before I had to cut and run for home , my students benefitted from the kindness of a couple of my author friends. ...

I was able to see an advanced copy of this book over the summer and fell in love with it. And when the real book arrived last week, I ...

At Nerd Camp, we were able to go into a room filled with books and choose 2 books--what a fun time!  You can imagine the scene with...

I always love the Books for Children Luncheon at NCTE. Not only do we get o hear the Orbis Pictus Award winners and hear amazing authors s...

Everything is a Poem: The Best of J. Patrick Lewis by J. Patrick Lewis illustrated by Maria Cristina Pritelli Creative Editions...

We were lucky to have Jessica Day George visit our school last week. It was very exciting for everyone and the kids are still talking a...

"Nuts to you" might have been what I was saying on Saturday when the class cold hit me so hard there was nothing I could do but l...

The Great Big Green by Peggy Gifford illustrated by Lisa Disimini Boyds Mills Press, 2014 review copy provided by the publisher R...

This summer, I did a Choice Literacy workshop for teachers around Nonfiction. I spoke in the morning and Andrea Smith spoke in the afternoo...

Kindred Souls by Patricia MacLachlan Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins), 2012 My eyes welled up on page two of this book, and when...

Junonia by Kevin Henkes Greenwillow Books, on shelves May 24, 2011 ARC received at NCTE I have just the reader to hand this book to -...

Yesterday I set Florian's Dinothesaurus and Lewis' The Underwear Salesman out on the chalk tray in my fourth grade classroom at the...

The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech illuminated by David Diaz HarperCollins, 2007 I'm pretty sure Sharon Creech has already written this ...

What a lucky day we had today--Louise Borden came in to our class and read her new book to us-- THE JOHN HANCOCK CLUB . This is a great...