A Year of Reading

©Amy LV, 2011 Today many (all?) of the classrooms at my school are participating in a Global School Play Day . It's very simple, b...

Spencer's New Pet by Jessie Sima Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, August 27, 2019 review copy compliments of the pub...

Because #DearOneLBH was such an inspiration to so many: From the blog  Incidental Comics  by Grant Snider. Amy LV has this wee...

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

Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey (My review from GoodReads) Yes, yes I did. I made my students wait for this book unt...

LOST AND FOUND ACT 1 The hawks are whistling. Every morning I listen, wonder, imagine. The nest, constructed in a pignut hi...

Here are four picture books that are just right for comparing and contrasting. Pair these with the Global Climate Strike September 20-27  s...

photo via Unsplash From In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love...

Room on our Rock by Kate and Jol Temple illustrated by Terri Rose Baynton Kane Miller Books, 2019 This picture book is a reverso...

Unsplash photo by Torsten Dederichs You Just Don't Get It Befuddled and muddled your noggin's confused puzzled and troubl...