Book of the Week
SLJ Trailee Awards!
It’s time for School Library Journal‘s annual TRAILEE AWARDS! Between now and August 31st, 2011, you can nominate book trailers (posted between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011) in the following categories: Publisher/Author for elementary readers (PreK-6) Publisher/Author for secondary readers (7-12 grade) Student created for elementary readers (PreK-6 grade) Student created for secondary [...]
Back to School
I know that, for some of you librarians, it feels like summer (and summer reading) will never end. But I was visiting my family in California recently and my sister-in-law mentioned that my niece is starting school on August 10th! August 10th! That seems so early, doesn’t it? Here in NYC, the public schools don’t [...]
Blogs We’re Reading
It’s Vacation Time around the office lately, especially now that ALA is over. But one of the delights of being offline is getting to catch up once you’re back online: it’s always fun to see that the electronic world has continued to spin even in your absence. Here are some of the posts I’ve read [...]
WE ARE AMERICA
Christopher Myers and Walter Dean Myers have recently launched their website Who Is America in celebration of their gorgeous nonfiction picture book WE ARE AMERICA, which has already received two starred reviews. We recently had the chance to talk to Chris and Walter about the book, and here is what they shared: Walter: This book [...]
Fancy Nancy and her fancy website!
If you haven’t had the chance to check out the Fancy Nancy website, you must head over there now and take a look! First, sign up for the Fancy Nancy: Bonjour! E-newsletter: You can also see adorable photos of fancy families and read the Fancy Nancy blog. Hosting a Fancy Nancy soiree in your library? [...]
Editorial Insight: Jordan Brown talks about Anne Ursu’s BREADCRUMBS
“My brother teaches an undergraduate writing course at a university in New York, and he recently shared with me a thesis statement from one of his students’ papers: “Words are very important in A Passage to India.” It was, perhaps fittingly, a poor choice of words on the student’s part—it’s a novel, after all—but I [...]
