A Year of Reading

I am participating in Project 365 on Flickr this year. I'm not following the rules exactly, so even though I have "joined" the...

During the announcements of the ALA awards on Monday, I was pleased to know so many of the books on the lists. But I am finding that it is ...

Another reason I love Cover to Cover is that they had all of the ALA award-winning books on display at the store--right when you walk in the...

At least twice a week, one of the Kindergarten or first grade girls at school asks for a "princess book". That is what they look ...

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog. James Thurber ...

I didn't even have to read THE ODD EGG by Emily Gravett or THE GREAT PAPER CAPER by Oliver Jeffers when Beth showed them to me at Cover ...

Amelia Rules! Volume #4: When the Past is a Present by Jimmy Gownley Renaissance Press, 2008 This was my snow day gift to myself: curl up on...

Governor Ted Strickland's State of the State Address was today. So many favorite lines to choose from but these are the things that mak...

NCTE has announced the 2009 Orbis Pictus winners. I tend to look forward to this list each year for a variety of reasons. As a reader of c...

Franki read the Newbery before it was announced today, so technically , she wins the friendly little non-competition (HA!) upon which this ...