I’m starting a new book this week. It’s my fourth novel, so you’d think I’d have some things figured out. But no. I’m finding myself kind of overwhelmed and not really sure where to start. How do you do this again? So when I was looking for book trailers to post to my library blog, [...]
Just came across some fun links on food chains and animal habitats. We’ve been hearing back about teachers using our Follow That Food Chain books in their classrooms; here are some great games to introduce or reinforce their concepts: Food Chain Game (put the food chain in order) Animal Diet Game introduces the terms “herbivores,” “omnivores,” and [...]
Husband and I were talking about this with friends this weekend. Do you have a a place online that you frequent regularly–but that would surprise everyone to know about? (And no, I’m not talking about THOSE kind of websites. I’m a children’s librarian, for heaven’s sake! Please don’t spoil my innocence.) My website confession was this [...]
Last week when I wrote about The Dunderheads, I forgot to link to some of the other online reviews. One of my favorites is by 100 Scope Notes. Yes, he created a “Toon Review”! Once I got past my jealousy of not thinking of doing “Toon Reviews” first , I had to check out the [...]
You would think that after 14 years of working in schools I would know that I’m not actually going to get anything done in the library on my teacher work days. Yes, it’s Labor Day, and I’m heading into work to finish up a few things for my classes tomorrow. Anyway, one of my favorite [...]
Here are some things that I came across in my web perusing this last week that made me stop and click. Thought they might interest you, too. (No, no, not running out of things to say. Just everyone else says/does it so much better!) In a post rounding up some news articles about reading, one [...]