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Monthly Archives: April 2008
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is reissuing a book teaching children to read
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is publishing a new edition of TEACH ANYONE TO READ: THE NO-NONSENSE GUIDE by Dr. Lillie Pope (originally called Guidelines to Teaching Reading). It will be published June 15, 2008, and is the first book … Continue reading
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review of YA fantasy Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti
Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti Juno Books (April 2008) ISBN-10: 0809572567, ISBN-13: 978-0809572564 My rating: 5 out of 5 stars The metal beneath her feet jolted and shuddered. Taya grabbed the strut next to her with one heavily gloved hand. … Continue reading
Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday
Love comics? Know a kid who does? Want to encourage a kid to read using comics? (And yes, I think that’s a perfectly acceptable way to encourage reading.) Well, get in line for your free comics. Free Comic Book Day–in … Continue reading
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Finding favorite childhood books where you can’t remember title, author, or illustrator info
It is such a wonderful feeling to find childhood favorites, books that you thought you’d lost forever. They’re such treasure, like gold; they bring back a wash of good feeling. That just happened to me. There was a book that … Continue reading
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a great compilation of dial-a-story phone numbers
Want to listen to a picture book read aloud for free? A *real* picture book, not someone’s made-up story, or a fairy tale or a fable, but a published, often well-written picture book? Or do you know a child who … Continue reading
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Have a Dr. Seuss book read to you for free
Love Dr. Seuss books? Want them read to you? There are two ways that you or a child you know can have a Dr. Seuss book read to them on demand–by calling the Kansas Public Library Dial-a-Story at 1-816-701-3456 OR … Continue reading
The Power of Books – artwork by Mladen Penev
Artist Mladen Penev created a series of photographs in 2005 titled “The Power of Books” for the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The photos are striking, and a few make me feel good to look at. (A few I find … Continue reading