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 [...]
Holiday Round-Up
I know, it seems crazy to talk about the holiday season already. But this is also the point where we start putting in book orders for the latest titles and replacing old books as well. So let’s jump in and talk about some of the newest books for the holiday season: MARY ENGELBREIT’S NUTCRACKER by [...]
EVERY THING ON IT
The day has come! Shel Silverstein’s newest poetry collection, EVERY THING ON IT, is on sale today! You can get a peek at the book by using our Browse Inside feature, and check out the downloadable activities. The New York Times also wrote a lovely piece about Shel Silverstein as an unexpected “authority on education.” [...]
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? [...]
POETRY FRIDAY: Shel Silverstein
Everyone getting ready for Poetry Month in April? What have you got planned? If you’re looking for last-minute ideas, we have just made available a brand-new Shel Silverstein Poetry Month Event Kit online! Check it out here. And here’s the poem for today, just in time for spring – I think we’ve all been in [...]
Poetry Friday: Shel Silverstein
As mentioned last week, we’re sharing Shel Silverstein poems every Poetry Friday this month – we want to celebrate upcoming Poetry Month and Shel Silverstein’s upcoming brand-new collection of poetry and drawings, EVERY THING ON IT. I flipped through A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC, looking for something perfect to fit this day or week. And [...]
POETRY FRIDAY: Shel Silverstein
Hopefully all of you heard the buzz yesterday about the title and cover reveal at The Huffington Post for the new collection of poems and drawings by Shel Silverstein, EVERY THING ON IT. Here’s the fabulous cover: It is on-sale September 20, 2011. To celebrate the reveal and next month’s celebration of poetry, it makes [...]
Valentine’s Day Activities
The fantastic folks at Reading Rockets have teamed up with one of our awesome authors, Laura Elliott (A STRING OF HEARTS, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger), to put together an amazing Valentine’s Day resource. Check it out here. There are writing prompts, an e-card, a craft, poetry activities and a lot more. But my personal favorite [...]
NCTE/ALAN 2010 Conference
Starting this Wednesday, November 17th, we’ll be blogging live from the NCTE/ALAN conference in Orlando, Florida. We have an absolutely stellar line-up of authors and illustrators in HarperCollins Children’s booth #821 – here’ s the signing schedule: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Gordon Korman 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. [...]
Poetry Friday: Kids Being Kids
Between all the talk about bullying, the ridiculous proclamation that picture books are dinosaurs, and discussions about how much homework kids are assigned…I’m feeling like I just want to let loose and be silly. More importantly, I want to encourage kids to do so as well. Remind them to play and imagine. Have fun. Here’s [...]
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