A Year of Reading

The Cybils fiction picture book list is up for anyone interested. 111 titles! Such a great year for picture books:-) Whether you are int...

Morning by Billy Collins Why do we bother with the rest of the day, the swale of the afternoon, the sudden dip into evening, then night with...

The NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Convention was great! Like Mary Lee, I went to lots of great sessions. According to Chi...

My brain is overwhelmed. Instead of attending sessions that sounded interesting because the presenters were talking on topics near and dear...

We're blogging this weekend from NCTE in Nashville, TN at Opryland . The hotel and conference complex is an over-the-top tropical them...

The Cybils have made it -- there's a mention (albeit at the bottom of the page) in the Publishers Weekly Children's Bookshelf e-ne...

Listen to Kay Ryan read and discuss her poem on this podcast . Turtle by Kay Ryan Who would be a turtle who could help it? A barely mobile h...

Our interview with Amy Bowllan, the SLJ Blogger, is here and here .

I can tell that interims are out, parent-teacher conferences are over, and everyone has more or less settled into the school routine. How d...

A TRUE AND FAITHFUL NARRATIVE by Katherine Sturtevant I shouldn't be reviewing this book without having my copy right here in front of m...