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FOR BLACK GIRLS LIKE ME: We Belong In All Kinds of Stories by Mariama J. Lockington
Published: 20/08/2019When I was seven, my parents pulled me out of 2nd grade and decided to homeschool me and my siblings. Even though I was struggling to read and keep up in math, I liked school. I liked having a desk an ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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Cover Reveal for KEEP IT TOGETHER, KEIKO CARTER by Debbi Michiko Florence
Published: 20/08/2019Do you remember your first heartbreak? I do. I was in the third grade. I had two best friends I did everything with – hanging out at recess and lunch and one another’s homes, reading toge ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #651: Featuring Kaya Doi
Published: 18/08/2019“Dring-dring, dring-dring! They hop aboard a boat and …” Here’s a quick post to share some art from the fourth book in the Chirri & Chirra series from Japanese auth ... Read moreSource: blaine.org
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Ten Ways to Get Reluctant Adolescent Readers Reading by Sherri K. Wilcox
Published: 17/08/2019I teach high school English, grades 9-12, on a Disciplinary Alternative Education Placement (DAEP) campus. Talk about a tough audience! Many of my kids arrive at our campus with huge gaps in their e ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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The High Cost of Pervasive Passivity and Why Play Matters
Published: 16/08/2019A preschool director once relayed to me an observation she made at her community center. She watched as a mother plucked her child from the waters of the pool at the end of his swimming lesson, quick ... Read moreSource: notjustcute.com -
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“Don’t Exceptionalize Me” by Amy Watkins
Published: 16/08/2019“JASON REYNOLDS! is coming to NErDcamp! JASON REYNOLDS! is coming to NErDcamp, and I’m going!” is what I was hollering back in February when I registered for what I knew would be an amazing, teacher-s ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Carolina Búzio
Published: 16/08/2019Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got Matt Myers’s newest picture book. That is here. * * * Last week at Kirkus, I wrote here about Lorie Ann Grover’s I Love All of Me (Cartwheel/Sch ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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Fantasy world-building through the lens of environmental science by Gabrielle Byrne
Published: 14/08/2019As a reader, there’s nothing more satisfying that falling into a new world where you can feel the bite of the wind, smell the soup cooking over the fire, and reach out and touch everything just as the ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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Curiosity, Frustration, and Patience Before Breakfast
Published: 14/08/2019I’ve got a review over at BookPage of Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s newest picture book, Why? (Neal Porter / Holiday House, August 2019). That is here. Below, Laura shares some early sketc ... Read moreSource: blaine.org
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7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #650: Featuring Carson Ellis’s Pin
Published: 11/08/2019I’m doing something a little bit different today and sharing this pin that author-illustrator Carson Ellis created. For obvious reasons. I know that merely sharing a post like this does l ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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Creating a Reading Culture in the Classroom by Ann Hagedorn
Published: 10/08/2019When students walk into my classroom, I want them to see that I value reading and books and that my goal is for them to do the same. There is a sign that hangs in the front of my class that states, We ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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Ideas for Teaching Writing A Book Review by Carrie Rodusky
Published: 9/08/2019“Since we don’t know who young writers are going to become, when they are writing we should let them be whoever they are.” John Warner This quote may be finding its way into my upper elementary classr ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,Plus What I Did Last Week,Featuring Weshoyot Alvitre and Duncan Tonatiuh
Published: 9/08/2019“And worrying.”— From Traci Sorell’s At the Mountain’s Base, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre(Click to enlarge spread) “‘Our hearts should be filled wit ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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The Book That Readers Built by Chris Van Dusen
Published: 7/08/2019Sometimes I can be oblivious. Or maybe I just can’t take a hint. Or if I was to flatter myself, maybe I overthink things. I have a new book coming out this fall that I wrote and illustrated titled If ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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History’s Beating Heart, in Family Heroes and Superheroes by Kate Hannigan
Published: 6/08/2019“She died of the Spanish flu, leaving nine children behind.” “He boarded a boat in Derry after his younger brother joined the Irish Republican Army.” “She was a maid like all the other Irish immigrant ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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RESEARCHING THE REMARKABLE GWENDOLYN BROOKS by Suzanne Slade
Published: 5/08/2019As a Chicagoan, I find it especially rewarding to write about Chicago’s own remarkable residents. And certainly one of the most remarkable is Gwendolyn Brooks, who among her many accolades was the fir ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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7-Imp’s 7 Kicks #649: Featuring Barbara McClintock
Published: 4/08/2019Every now and then I like to check in with author-illustrator Barbara McClintock to see what’s she up to. Lucky me: She answered that question for me with this post, having sent some imag ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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Reading is a Forever Thing by Brooks Spencer
Published: 3/08/2019As part of a High School English conversation, a couple of teachers were overhead saying “My students won’t read outside the classroom, so there is no need to assign independent reading. It’s a waste ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
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What I’m Doing at Kirkus This Week,Plus What I Did Last Week, Featuring Chuck Groenink
Published: 2/08/2019“Jim solved it. He didn’t feel even a little bit bad about that.” Over at Kirkus today, I’ve got two new picture books that pay tribute to unsung heroes. That is here. * ... Read moreSource: blaine.org -
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“Why Are You So Sad?” Kids, Feelings, and Fiction by Rebecca Donnelly
Published: 1/08/2019When I was around seven or eight, people often asked me why I was so sad. These people were mostly adults but sometimes children. At that point in my life, I had a few things to be sad about: my paren ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com -
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The Story Behind Unstoppable Me! by Susan Verde
Published: 1/08/2019Thank you, Nerdy Book Club for the chance to share a bit of the backstory for my newest picture book Unstoppable Me! Many of my books come from things I have experienced as a kid or have seen and deal ... Read moreSource: nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
