Nina Crews: Celebrating a Storytelling Life
Each Nina Crews picture book beckons young readers to explore and promises them that ordinary moments can be transformed into the exceptional. Crews is especially known for her dynamic [...]
Each Nina Crews picture book beckons young readers to explore and promises them that ordinary moments can be transformed into the exceptional. Crews is especially known for her dynamic [...]
by Katy Tessman, New School Services Project Manager & Makerspace Specialist As a new school library project manager, I team with librarians and principals to curate book collections for [...]
A new Carl Hiaasen novel for young readers has been a cause for celebration since his first book for kids—Hoot (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2002)—was named a Newbery Honor winner. And Wrecker [...]
In any given group of kids, it’s not a surprise to meet up with someone like the Big Cheese—the child who’s always bragging about being the best. Or to sit down next to the Couch Potato, the [...]
From his opening line— “The first time I was stoned to death by an angry mob, I was not even a criminal”—the twelve-year-old narrator of Daniel Nayeri’s newest book, The Many Assassinations of [...]
One of my greatest joys is getting students excited about reading and writing. As a child, I loved to do both. Starting in first grade, I wrote poems in a marble composition book, and if I wasn’t [...]