In August of 2010, a woman I met while on vacation asked me if I knew about the A Beka books . I didn't, and hadn't given them anoth...
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In August of 2010, a woman I met while on vacation asked me if I knew about the A Beka books . I didn't, and hadn't given them anoth...
A few days ago, Doret (she blogs at The Happy Nappy Bookseller ) posted her review of Patricia and Fredrick McKissack Jr.'s Best Shot ...
I'm reading reviews on goodreads of Jodi Lynn Anderson's new book, Tiger Lily. In which there's a shaman named Tik Tok who also...
On Monday, June 25, 2012, from 1:30 to 3:30 at the American Library Association conference in Anaheim, Adriana McCleer, Carmen Tafolla, Oral...
Editor's note: I am pleased to share this post by Betsy McEntarffer of Lincoln Public Schools in Lincoln, Nebraska. A few weeks ag...
Dorothy Kunhardt's Pat the Bunny is a classic. Published in 1940 by Simon & Schuster, I'd be willing to bet it is one of those b...
Betsy's photo at Goodreads Elizabeth Bird, author of SLJ's A Fuse 8 Production blog has, for the past few weeks, been posting the r...
Danielle wrote to ask me about Gloria Whelan's Night of the Full Moon. It is regarded as a "first chapter book" (for children ...
An unusual photo. Bunky Echo-Hawk was doing his performance art at the 2012 conference of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and...
Reposting an old post (from Jan 2008) because today, at the 2012 mtg of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, I'm ...
A reader wrote to ask me about Tina Nichols Coury's Hanging Off Jefferson's Nose: Growing Up On Mount Rushmore , a new picture book...
Thaddeus Andracki is one of the most outstanding people I came to know at the University of Illinois when I taught there. As an undergrad, h...