Book of the Week
Sharks at ALA Annual!
ALA Annual is around the corner and we’re knee-deep (okay, maybe higher…) in planning. Want a sneak peek at the treats in our booth? Check this out: SHARK FANS!!!!! These are to celebrate Bob Shea’s super-fun picture book I’M A SHARK…and heaven knows that you’ll need a fan in sultry New Orleans. Check out the [...]
Buzz Alert: THIS PLUS THAT
Don’t listen to us gab about the newest picture book from Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jen Corace…check out the three starred reviews for THIS PLUS THAT! “Teachers could use the book, perhaps paired with Betsy Franco’s picture book Mathematickles! (2003), to introduce math equations or to inspire students to create their own verbal equations. But [...]
SLJ’s Day of Dialog at BEA
This Monday, May 23rd, we’ll be at the 2011 Day of Dialog. Will you? Hosted by School Library Journal, it’s a fantastic day-long event filled with panels, author signings, lots of swag, and networking. And it wouldn’t be a BEA event if it didn’t end with a cocktail event, of course! Patty and I will [...]
MY BOOKSTORE IS LIKE A ZOO
A bookstore cat Let’s be honest. The bookstore cat is cliché. Don’t get me wrong. I love cats, and I love cats in bookstores. There’s a reason why they are cliché. Bookstore cats are well-behaved (mostly) and safe (again, mostly) in exactly the way that a bookstore mongoose or bookstore badger is not. Still, I [...]
IRA Conference
We’ve just returned from the IRA conference in sunny Orlando! We’re still getting our feet back under us and assure you that we’ll get back to our regularly scheduled programming soon. In the meantime, though, here are a couple of highlights from our booth at the conference: Happy 15th Birthday to the adorable Biscuit! Attendees [...]
Gail Carson Levine at IRA Conference!
Next week (May 8-11) we’re off to another conference: the International Reading Association Annual Convention in sunny Orlando! We have a stellar line-up of authors and illustrators – for a complete list of authors and signing times, click here. One such author is Gail Carson Levine, author of some of the best-known books in children’s [...]
Dan Gutman’s My Weird Classroom Club
My name is Dan Gutman, and I love teachers and librarians! Hey, the most amazing thing in the history of the world just happened. But I’m not going to tell you what it is. So nah nah nah boo boo on you. Okay, okay, I’ll tell you. I had to wait a million hundred years, [...]
Divergent Day!
So you might have heard about a little book called DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth*. I joke, of course, when I say “little”. It’s anything but. It’s the epic story of a teenage girl who must make a decision on her 16th birthday that will determine the outcome of her life, as all 16-year-olds must do [...]
