A Year of Reading

We are reading aloud Refugee by Alan Gratz in our classroom right now. There is so much about this book that makes it an incredible rea...

Last week, I wrote about the closing of Acorn Bookshop , and one of the treasures I purchased. (Sorry I didn't make it around...

Unsplash photo by Krissia Cruz This morning, Franki texted me a link to Aliza Werner's post on the Classroom Communities blog, &q...

I love Susan Hood and am a huge fan of her book Ada's Violin .  When I heard about the book Shaking Things Up and noticed that S...

After 25 years of business, our favorite local independent (secondhand and antiquarian) bookstore, Acorn Bookshop , is succumbing to the...

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz Starscape, 2017 "...for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad per...

One of my 2019 goals is to balance my reading life a bit. This week felt balance and I read some great books.  Thanks to Jen and Kellee f...

Unsplash photo by Myur Gala LOVE IS A PLACE by e.e. cummings love is a place & through this place of love move (with bri...

Be A King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream and You by Carole Boston Weatherford illustrated by James E. Ransome Bloomsbury, 20...

I read two great books this week. There are several fairy tale readers in our class this year and I think there are probably lots of fair...