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• "My favourite thing to do in London is to fly the Eye."

  
  We Be Reading — Authority: 425
  Ive had The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd on my reading wish list for a long time. I enjoy young detectives and thought this would be a fun, light read. In fact, it turned out to be a very different type of story. This is the summary from Barnes and Noble -- Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the ...
  5 hours ago

• Cauvery : More Reviews Pour in

  
  Pratham Books — Authority: 128
  More reviews are pouring in for our book Cauvery . Via BoloKids.com It is very rarely that we get a book which informs, entertains and inspires. Cauvery published by Pratham Books is a delightful, delectable book whi ch does all this and more. The book gives the reader a taste of captivating ...
  8 hours ago

• Gone to be Knots Landing now

  
  Berger & Burger — Authority: 127
  I just had one of those only-in-the-Internet-age moments. Note: the cropping job on this photo is not my doing, but fits the book pretty well. For some reason I decided to look up “Gone to be Snakes Now.” The effect of reading this book could best be likened to hyperspace traveling in Hitchhikers, which was ...
  13 hours ago

• What I’m reading now: Swine flu edition

  
  Berger & Burger — Authority: 127
  A book I’m not reading now: The above was my randomly generated picture book debut cover.: Judy, The Pychic Panda. Part of the Cover Week Fun over at ScopeNotes: http://100scopenotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/create-your-debut-picture-book-cover ——- —– In the real book dept… I raced right through ...
  18 hours ago

• PiBoIdMo Day 9: Ruth Spiro’s Detail Swap

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 462
  Waiting for the Big Idea? Don’t! by Ruth Spiro What do a macramé owl, Celia Chompers, and a town called Fate have in common? Nothing, really, except that they’re all written in my little green notebook. I’ve always been amused by that iconic light bulb that appears above a cartoon character’s head to ...
  23 hours ago

• Nonfiction Monday: The Best of Pro Baseball

  
  Picture Book of the Day — Authority: 466
  The Best of Pro Baseball by Matt Doeden (Author) shares 10 “bests!” Best Catch No player has matched “The Catch” by Willie Mays. He made it in game one of the 1954 World Series. Sentence Fluency Mini-lesson Primary/Intermediate: Ask students to write their own “personal bests” paragraph. Remind ...
  1 day ago

• PiBoIdMo Day 8: Karma Wilson’s Secret (and a giveaway)

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 462
  What Tara Doesn’t Know… by Karma Wilson Shhh…don’t tell Tara, but she’s become one of my biggest inspirations. More specifically, her alphabetical list of 299+ Things Kids Like has become one of my biggest inspirations. In fact, I never would have guessed that a blog entry could become so central to ...
  2 days ago

• The Great Books … a common thread

  
  Berger & Burger — Authority: 127
  I recently finished listening to a hefty chunk of The Teaching Company’s lecture series “Books that Made History: Book that Will Change Your Life.” In this Prof. Rufus Fears has assembled a list of The Great Books and walks us through them in an entertaining, inspiring fashion. There’s a lot of non-fiction ...
  2 days ago

• PiBoIdMo Day 7: Food, Glorious Food

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 462
  This post comes as I’m frantically preparing for 25 guests later this afternoon. I’ve already cooked my grandmother’s homemade tomato sauce (which she called “gravy”), two enormous trays of baked ziti (with fresh ricotta from the Italian grocer), five pounds of chicken marsala, and a cannellini-spinach dip ...
  2 days ago

• PiBoIdMo Day 6: Susan Taylor Brown’s Idea Box

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 462
  THE IDEA BOX by Susan Taylor Brown I’m a collector. I can’t go on a walk without finding something I have to pick up and take home with me for my idea box. A stick. A rock. A broken toy. I also have a hard time throwing things away so an item headed for Goodwill might find its way into my idea box. It’s a ...
  3 days ago

• Childrens Book World Author/Illustrator Night/Lititz Kid-Lit Festival

  
  Beth Kephart Books — Authority: 131
  Those of you in the Main Line Philadelphia area looking for an opportunity to mingle with young adult authors and illustrators are invited to join myself, Jen Bryant, Elizabeth Mosier, Catherine Murdock, Donna Jo Napoli, Kathye Petrie, Jerry Spinelli, David Wiesner and many others for the 18th Annual ...
  4 days ago

• Poetry Friday: Thanksgiving Rules

  
  Picture Book of the Day — Authority: 466
  In Thanksgiving Rules by Laurie Friedman (Author) and Teresa Murfin (Illustrator), Percy shares his secrets… I get the most out of my holidays. I promise, you can too. Just follow my simple rules. That’s all you have to do. Voice Mini-lesson Primary/Intermediate: Ask students to write their own ...
  4 days ago

• 80s-era Warren Zevon sighting in Blacksburg & other news

  
  Berger & Burger — Authority: 127
  I was pulling on to Main Street yesterday and glanced at a car waiting to make a left turn off of Main Street. Warren Zevon, circa 1982, was driving! like this: Life Magazine Photo , but with a little more beard. This adds to my list of people I’ve seen driving around or near Blacksburg, including Kurt Vonnegut ...
  4 days ago

• PiBoIdMo Day 5: Boo-boos, Boogeymen and Band-Aids

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 462
  Today for PiBoIdMo, I’d like you to remember a favorite childhood moment. Well, no, I lied. Sorry ‘bout that. I’m just trying to ease you into things. What I really want you to do is recall an un favorite childhood moment. A time that you were scared. Shy. Anxious. Really wanting your mommy. Now, turn ...
  5 days ago

• My Parents Are Divorced, My Elbows Have Nicknames, and Other Facts About Me

  
  Picture Book of the Day — Authority: 466
  My Parents Are Divorced, My Elbows Have Nicknames, and Other Facts About Me by Bill Cochran (Author) and Steve Bjorkman (Illustrator) begins… Hi. My name is Ted and my parents are divorced. But that doesn’t mean I’m weird. Word Choice Mini-lesson Primary/Intermediate: Ask students to write about their ...
  5 days ago

• Big Origami Yoda news…

  
  Berger & Burger — Authority: 127
  The Spring 2010 AbramsBFYR/Amulet catalog is out and our wise pal made the cover! And inside he’s got this awesome double spread: How awesome is this: I’m right next to Jason Shiga in the catalog! His book “Meanwhile” is going to rock the world. It literally changes the function of illustrations. ...
  5 days ago

• Tata Docomo Brings Comic Books to Mobile

  
  Pratham Books — Authority: 128
  Via telecomyatra Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), has launched of CoMix on-the-go, in collaboration with Zero-Sum Wireless Solutions. The service enables users to read full comic books on the mobile, along with special effects such as character vibration, sounds and zooming text ...
  6 days ago

• Two Traveling Piglets

  
  We Be Reading — Authority: 425
  Until Z came, I knew nothing about Holly Hobbie except for the calico-wearing, simple-living character that was on one of my lunchboxes when I was a kid. The real Holly is an artist that created that character for American Greetings in the 1970s and named it after herself (Holly is her middle name and Hobbie is her ...
  6 days ago

• Duck for Turkey Day

  
  Picture Book of the Day — Authority: 466
  Duck for Turkey Day by Jacqueline Jules (Author) and Kathryn Mitter (Illustrator) begins… To get ready for Thanksgiving, Tuyet’s class sang turkey songs, They made pinecone turkeys. They talked about Pilgrims and Native Americans. Organization Mini-lesson Primary/Intermediate: Ask students to write their ...
  6 days ago

• PiBoIdMo Day 4: Tammi Sauer Celebrates the Weird Stuff

  
  Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) — Authority: 462
  My #1 tip for PiBoIdMo 2009? Celebrate the Weird Stuff in life. It’s good material for stories. Late one evening a weird thing happened to me. After my husband and I tucked our kids in, we heard an unexpected knock at the door. I opened it and found a kid standing on my front porch. He was selling newspaper ...
  6 days ago

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