Meet Marly: Marly Book 1 by Alice Pung; Penguin Books Australia. Ages 8-12. It’s 1983 and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshine Primary School. But being a refugee from Vietnam doesn’t make things easy, and when Marly’s cousins come to stay and end up at the same school, her friends make fun […]
Celebrating Pura Belpré Award Winners: Spotlight on Julia Alvarez — Latinxs in Kid Lit
The Pura Belpré Awards turns 20 this year! The milestone will be marked on Sunday, June 26, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. during the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. According to the award’s site, the celebration will feature speeches by the 2016 Pura Belpré award-winning authors and illustrators, book signings, light snacks, and entertainment. The […]
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Celebrate Earth Day By Reading Kid Lit Books As An Ecocritic — Latinxs in Kid Lit
By Marianne Snow Campbell Earth Day is here again! It’s a time to honor the natural world that surrounds us, consider how we can take better care of the environment, and take action keep our planet healthy and beautiful. In schools, many teachers and students will join together to read and discuss books with […]
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“Lesson Learned: Catching Up With ‘Large Fears’ Author, Myles E. Johnson” — Crazy QuiltEdi
Some of the things I’ve been involved with probably stand out in your memory more than others. One of those things worth remembering has to be the Large Fears controversy. I was involved in it, but it wasn’t about me. While we remember it as being about Meg Rosoff, it really wasn’t. It was about the […]
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Book Bits: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours — Highly Textured Librarian
A library at night is full of sounds: The unread books can’t stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious. — Helen Oyeyemi I am intrigued and unnerved by the thought of unread books talking while we sleep. What would my unread books say? I think some of them […]
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book review: Dorothy Must Die — Crazy QuiltEdi
title: Dorothy Must Die author: Danielle Paige date: Harper, 2014 main character: Amy Gumm young adult fiction We all cheered for Dorothy to find the Wizard and make her way back home to Kansas. We loved Glinda’s sparkle and the shine of the yellow brick road, but sometimes too much ‘good’ just isn’t all […]
Celebrating Pura Belpré Award Winners: The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan — Latinxs in Kid Lit
The Pura Belpré Awards turns 20 this year! The milestone will be marked on Sunday, June 26, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. during the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. According to the award’s site, the celebration will feature speeches by the 2016 Pura Belpré award-winning authors and illustrators, book signings, light snacks, and entertainment. The event […]
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Hip, Hip Hooray, it’s Día’s Birthday! — Latinxs in Kid Lit
Look for an upcoming post about the joys of El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros. For more information about celebrating Día, visit the American Library Association.
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May 2016 Releases — Crazy QuiltEdi
OMG…issues OMG…I Did it Again?! by Talia Aikens-Nuñez; Central Avenue. ages 9-12 April Appleton wakes up to quite the sight: a herd of elephants marching down her street! She realizes that her powers of witchcraft have done it again. With her friends, Grace and Eve, April must figure out how the elephants got to her town in […]
Celebrating Pura Belpré Winners: Spotlight on Rafael López — Latinxs in Kid Lit
The Pura Belpré Awards turns 20 this year! The milestone will be marked on Sunday, June 26, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. during the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. According to the award’s site, the celebration will feature speeches by the 2016 Pura Belpré award-winning authors and illustrators, book signings, light snacks, and entertainment. The event will also […]
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