Book of the Week
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR ALA AWARD WINNERS!
Truly, our cup is overflowing. Everyone here is beyond excited and incredibly proud of our award winning books and authors, announced this Monday at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. An astounding amount of work, love, patience, devotion, and hope goes into each book that’s published, and we’re honored to be part of the process that helps [...]
Liesl & Po
A gorgeous book illustrated throughout by Kei Acedera, we are so excited to share LIESL & PO with you! Lauren Oliver proves she can right it all: young adult, dystopian, and now middle-grade. We have materials to help you read LIESL & PO with the kids in your classrooms and libraries. Check out the website: [...]
BBW Booktalk: GEOGRAPHY CLUB
Banned Books Week goes on and today’s booktalk is GEOGRAPHY CLUB by Brent Hartinger. It was successfully banned for its homosexual content in Brent’s own hometown in 2005 – read Brent’s great post about it – and has continued to appear on the most challenged lists. In Brent’s blog post, he quotes a local parent [...]
BBW Booktalk: ANGUS, THONGS, AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING
A regular on the top banned and challenged books list, ANGUS, THONGS, AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING by the fabulous Louise Rennison has a cult following (um, include me in that cult!). The book has been challenged for a multitude of reasons: age inappropriateness, profanity, and sexual content. It has also made the Top 100 list, which [...]
EVERYTHING GOES: ON LAND Giveaway Winners
Eek! We forgot to post the winners of our EVERYTHING GOES: ON LAND giveaway contest yesterday as promised! CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING WINNERS! Jana Jennifer Coffelt Holly Baker We’ll contact you shortly to get your mailing address and congrats!
BBW Booktalk: BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
In addition to appearing on the list regularly, Katherine Paterson’s BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA was a Top 10 Banned Book in 2003. It is also ranked in the Top 10 Banned Books of the decade, 1990-2010. It has been challenged and banned for using the lord’s name in vain, secular humanism, occultism, offensive language, and death [...]
Banned Books Week: Booktalks
It’s well-known in book-ish circles that it’s Banned Books Week. This week is a wonderful celebration of the freedom to read and to raise awareness against censorship. But one thing that comes up each year – by myself, included – is that Banned Books Week needs to happen every day of the year. As book [...]
Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes
WARNING: Be prepared to have this song in your head all day! Especially after using it in a storytime! See what librarians and teachers are saying about PETE THE CAT: ROCKING IN MY SCHOOL SHOES by Eric Litwin and James Dean: “The text invites students to sing along with Pete as he rocks in his [...]
Holiday Weekend Links
I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday weekend! It seems that Mother Nature decided this weekend really did herald in the autumn, as it’s drizzly and chilly in NYC today. It turns out it’s the best weather to hunker down and catch up on blog reading. Here are some interesting links we’ve been reading lately: The [...]
Storytime Corner: DOGS
Having done a Storytime Corner on cats, it only makes sense that we’d have to do one on dogs, right? I’m a cat person myself, but these dog stories are completely irresistible. And to keep all your parents and kids happy, you could even consider mixing up the dog and cat stories to make an [...]
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