A Year of Reading

via Unsplash In praise of joe by Marge Piercy I love you hot I love you iced and in a pinch I will even consume you tepid. Dark brown as...

As I continue to build my nonfiction area of the classroom library,  I am thrilled when I find a picture book that I know will be perfect f...

LAST WEEK ON THE PLAYGROUND Boom boom boom. Buzz buzz buzz. The drums on the playground are filled with wasps. ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019 ...

Oh, the joys of a book award committee. The stacks on the left are August books that still need to be read/reviewed, and the tower of ...

Grandparents' Day is September 8 this year. Here are some picture books, many of which are #ownvoicees, that explore the relationship o...

©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...