Back in September, School Library Journal ran an article suggesting to new school media specialists/school librarians what they can do to get their career off to a good start. The recommendations were really pretty good and several I couldn’t write better myself. There were just a couple with which I didn’t agree, but my experience… Read More SundayMorningReads
title: Dragon Chica author: May-Lee Chai date: GemmaMedia, Oct 2010 I’m just going out on all kinds of limbs this week! Today, I have my very first video book review! I tried to jazz it up a bit, but my editing skills aren’t good enough. . . yet. This may disappear soon, so enjoy it… Read More book review: Dragon Chica
How can we not begin, not only to see but to interact with people who have different beliefs or colors? To me, if we’re not growing in our understanding, tolerance, acceptance and inclusion of people of different colors, religions, sizes, sexual preference or income strata then how literate are we? No matter how well we can surf the net or how high our reading level I think we’re illiterate if we only see the world through mirror images.… Read More SundayMorningReads
I received the following information via email. I’m looking forward to this publication and am excited to know that I can be such a visible part of this project, and so can you! The authors of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, The Princess Diaries, the mega-bestsellers Goosebumps(350 million+ sold) and The Baby-sitters Club (175 million+ sold), the Newbery medal-winning Dicey’s… Read More Help Darfur LIbraries
Somewhere on a blog I was readin, an author recently posed a question which essentially asked when are MG authors going to start respecting their readers. I’m wondering if the problem is the authors or the editors. I find that in MG books, characters and situations are poorly developed, situations don’t see real and inconsistencies… Read More MG Book Reviews
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