Last week, I covered some recommended audiobooks for short car rides. My local library (JMRL) requires 500 minutes to earn one book and 500 minutes to earn a second book. Maybe 500 minutes feels totally out of reach to you. That’s a little over eight hours of reading or listening. If you think of it […]
Families have a lot going on. When you’re trying to raise a reader, summer can be a tough time (although the data about summer learning loss is inconsistent). Plenty of kids want to fling their bookbag into the back of the closet and never crack a cover for the next ninety days. Without the structure […]
I first fell in love with the work of Matthew Cordell when I read his 2018 Caldecott acceptance speech for Wolf in the Snow, followed by the book itself. Cordell says, On the other end of this human spectrum, children rather terrified me. With their keen, sometimes brutal insightfulness, their unpredictability, and their unrelenting energy. […]
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library kicked off its summer reading challenge on June 1. The challenge runs through August 8th. Racking up reading minutes gives readers a chance to come to the library and pick out two books of their own (one book for every 500 minutes read). Today, I logged minutes for four members of our […]
Jacob’s Missing Book by Sarah & Ian Hoffman, illustrated by Chris Case “Jacob adores “the penguin book”…but it’s missing! Later, his classmate Emily, who has two dads, wants to show the book to Noah, but their teacher explains that “some people are unhappy with the books we have in our library.” Jacob knows it’s because […]
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