HOW THEY CROAKED: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg (www.georgiabragg.com) Illustrated by Kevin O’Malley Bloomsbury/Walker March 2011 ~ Ages 10-13 $17.99-Hardcover ~ ISBN: 978-0-8027-9817-6 One of my very favorite nonfiction titles this year is Georgia Bragg’s book HOW THEY CROAKED: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous. If you have the [...]
Breath of Angel (The Angeleon Circle #1) by Karyn Henley. WaterBrook Press, Expected publication: June 21st 2011. ISBN13: 9780307730121. Paperback, 277 pages. http://www.karynhenleyfiction.com/Karyn_Henley_Fiction/Breath_of_Angel.html On March 3, 2011 thanks to the efforts of librarian Hope Hall, I was able to join with other librarians and meet Nashville author Karyn Henley. Breath of Angel is Karyn Henley’s [...]
A Guest Blog by Susan Norwood: Ms. Chen worked her tail off for three years. She donated thousands of books to the library, worked countless hours overtime, and functioned as a quasi-therapist to our students. She is acknowledged by the American Library Association, Tennessee School Library Association, and by Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools as a [...]
Students suggest titles and topics for the librarian to purchase books. I took a photo of the small bag hanging on my desk where I collect suggestions year round. Note some of the most recent requests for Teen Pregnancy books and Sex-Ed books. Big deal, you’re probably thinking. You teach in a suburban middle school [...]
Cenicienta La Novela Gráfica (Cinderella). Contada por Beth Bracken. Illustrada por Jeffrey Stewart Timmons. Stone Arch Books, 2010. ISBN: 9781434219008. S & L price: $16.99 The Spanish teacher at my school is the wonderful, fabulous, talented Courtney Rayburn. She and I were enjoying this Stone Arch version of Cinderella today while her class of Spanish [...]
Guest blog post “From the Field- Day 1 IRA Convention” by Susan Norwood I just returned from the International Reading Association (IRA) Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida. I had two wonderful days surrounded by books and those who love them. If you have never been to an IRA Annual Convention, plan to go to one. [...]
Grandparents love to tell their grandchildren all the good and really bad stuff about their children. Why? Maybe it’s revenge for all those nights when their child woke them up to say “Mommy, I feel sick” and then vomited all over them. Or maybe its for these lines in the book Your Mommy Was Just [...]
Years ago when I took my library comprehensive oral examination, I was asked if I thought information could be dangerous. I think back to that question many times. Take a situation that is slowly occurring across the country with schools sharing body mass index information about students with the parent(s). We recognize we have a [...]
Susan writes today about her collection. We joke at school that she runs the branch school library. What is a balanced collection? Obviously, a librarian or teacher wants to have materials for a variety of students. But, the truth is that our schools are no longer balanced. Public schools in urban areas are re-segregating. I [...]
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