I’m enjoying today. I am prefer these cooler temperatures and am so happy to be at home in the middle of the day to see the sun streaming into my bedroom. I miss Saturday, Garcon and Manning, but I’m still cheering for my Colts and look forward to wearing that same shade of blue to watch the… Read More SundayMorningReads
What better day for book trailers than a Saturday? The girl who leapt through time by Yasutaka Tsutsui(author) and David Karashima (translator) (Alma Books) originally appeared in Japan in 1966 as a science fiction novel written by Japanese writer and actor Yasutaka Tsutsui. Appearing in serial form with the title The Girl Who Runs Through Time, the story soon became a… Read More Saturday Trailer: The girl who leapt through time
The 2012 South Asia Book Award Ceremony Saturday, October 13, 2012 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. Wisconsin Studio (3rd floor) Overture Center, 201 State Street, Madison, WI Please join the SABA Award committee and the South Asia National Outreach Consortium as they honor the 2012 Awards-winning authors Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw, author of Same, Same by Different (Henry Holt and Company, 2011) Padma Venkatraman,… Read More South Asia Book Award Ceremony
Alice Randall is the only black woman in history to have written a number one country song. She’s a produced screenwriter and a successful author of contemporary adult fiction. Caroline Randall Williams, her daughter, is an award winning poet and the great-granddaughter of Arna Bontemps. Shadra Strickland won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the Coretta Scott… Read More Interview: Alice Randall, Caroline Randall Williams, Shadra Strickland
title: The diary of B. B. Bright Possible Princess authors: Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams illustrator: Shadra Strickland date: Turner Books; September, 2012 main character: B.B. Bright reading level: 3.0 B.B. Bright is an orphan girl who lives on an island with her three godmommies. As she faces her thirteenth birthday, she begins to realize… Read More book review and a pairing: The diary of B. B. Bright Possible Princess
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