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World Read Aloud Day is coming up next week, but most librarians, teachers, and parents I know don’t read to their children only on that day.  Here are some great titles, published in 2016 and [...]

Check out some exciting easy and fiction titles that have come out this month. ELEMENTARY PICTURE BOOKS         Caterpillar Dreams by Clive McFarland. 9780062386366. 2017. Gr K-2. Henri the [...]

These exciting nonfiction titles have been published in January. PRIMARY NONFICTION         Fancy Party Gowns : The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe by Deborah Blumenthal (ill. by Laura [...]

Anyone who follows my work knows that I am passionate about creating makerspaces that are unique to individual school communities. I have said many times that: “No two makerspaces should be [...]

Fifty years ago, The Outsiders was first introduced to readers. A young outsider herself, Susan Eloise (S.E.) Hinton wrote about the life she saw and lived as a teenager. She wrote about the [...]

Happy New Year!  Update your popular series with these books that will be published in January. Enjoy! PRIMARY SERIES & SEQUELS           Always Watch Out for the Flying Potato Salad (Here’s [...]

The 2017 Youth Media Awards will be announced on Monday, January 23, from Atlanta. Our staff of librarians has compiled a list of titles suggested in Mock Caldecott, Newbery, and Printz posts [...]

From a young age, Don Tate loved drawing. But reading? No. That was of no interest to him—unless the books and magazines had to do with art or drawing.