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Non-Fiction Monday: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Baby Animals
In my mailbox was this delightful book, Baby Animals: Little Ones at Play in 20 Works of Art. Its arrival provided a much needed break from typing on my protfolio entries for the national boards....
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Author/Illustrator: Nicole Rubel
Quick! Who illustrated Rotten Ralph? (Answer: Nicole Rubel) Quick! Who wrote and illustrated Hot and Cold in Miami, No More Vegetables, Grody’s Not So Golden Rules, A Cowboy Named Ernestine, Twice...
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And the Winners Are…
Note to self: Sometimes giving away one signed book is difficult. Have at least three to give away if possible. Trevor, Levi, and Kara Last year, the week that Laini Taylor’s Blackbringercame out, I...
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Were We Cursed? An Author Interview with Katie Davis
Fifth graders interview with Katie Davis The Curse of Addy McMahon author Something I love about having a blog is discovering new authors (or new to me at least) via visiting the “Kidlitosphere”: home...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: Dreaming for School to be Finished
School gets out next Wednesday. I am dreaming for that day. It has been a long, wonderful year but I am ready for summer. So in honor of dreams, I am sharing fro a discovery I made this year over at...
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I am around. I just have not been posting on my blogs much. I think it is fallout from participating in the national boards for teaching. Which, by the way, I now get to wait until around November to...
View ArticleTidbit Tuesday
It is August and that means that I am unofficially back to work. Officially not until the end of August. But I get that itch and start thinking about what the year will bring for me. I am beginning my...
View ArticleTuesday Tidbits: Thinking Out Aloud About Poetry
Just arrived home from teaching two sessions, “Incorporating Poetry in the Writer’s Workshop” to teachers at our first ever Summer Literacy Institute in my district. Both went well, I have to tell you...
View ArticleWho’s Reading What Wednesday: Two Books
We are into the state assessment period and the halls are quiet except for the scritchy-scratch of pencils. I recently read two books to classes that were sent to me by publishers. The first is a...
View ArticleWhat Was I Thinking? 48 Hour Reading Challenge, Revision Smackdown, and...
48 Hour Reading Challenge I signed up to participate in the “48 Hour Reading Challenge” from 7 PM Friday to 7 PM Sunday. My goal to read six of the 2010 Sasquatch Reader Award and 2010 YRCA nominees....
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