Each December, voting for the Nerdy awards gives us an opportunity to reflect on our year of reading. As we combed through our...
Writers, off you go. Reread the leads to your chapters and decide if you can revise them to grab the attention of your...
At NCTE, we attended the Children’s Literature Assembly Breakfast and heard Candice Fleming and Eric Rohmann talk about their newest book, STRONGHEART: Wonder Dog...
I bend down to stretch my hip and glance at my watch. Twenty minutes to go. 26,000 runners are lined up to run...
When we looked over the stacks of books (#Buildyourstack) we read over the last six months, we noticed the amount of new traditional...
Finding time to rotate inventory and keep the selection of books in your classroom library fresh can be hard to pull off. We...
I came home from NCTE with a stack of books. This past weekend was cold. My cozy reading chair was beckoning me. So...
The Children’s Book Awards Luncheon is always a highlight of the NCTE conference. This year we were seated with poet and writing teacher,...
Hey! Hands off! I swat my son’s hand off the turkey. I just want one piece of bacon. It’s my favorite part and it’s...
You know a middle-grade novel is compelling when you are sitting in your driveway after a two-hour commute because you can’t stop listening....