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Easy Reader Round-Up #1
Easy reader time! No series here—but what about a look at some easy readers that have come across my desk recently. Bookstore Bunnies by Eric Seltzer, illustrated by Tom Disbury What an adorable book! Even though it’s an easy reader, I’m going to use this during story time–it’s the perfect blend of book-loving rhyme and…
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Picture Book Round-Up #11
I’m posted up at the Arlington Central Library today powering through some picture books and a bundle of other tasks–let’s dive in! What Does Brown Mean to You? by Ron Grady What a sweet book! A rhyming book taking you through the day of a Black boy looking for all the brown things around him.…
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Picture Book Biography Round-up #1
I love love love picture book biographies. I love learning from them, leaning into their worlds, crying over the ways they depict such vibrant successes and triumphs, and using them in programming. Here’s a round-up of a few picture book biographies I’ve read recently. Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming…
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Picture Book Round-Up #10
Another round-up! Today we’ve got a diverse array of picture books, including a celebrity picture book, a COVID-19 story, a play on Virginia Woolf and more. Have you read any of these? My Name is a Story by Ashanti, illustrated by Monica Mikai Another “my name is different story,” this one’s got the celebrity element…
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Easy Reader Series Series: Dav Pilkey’s DRAGON
When I was growing up, kids loved reading Captain Underpants but it was never really my thing. Then, as a librarian, I saw the kids obsessed with Dog Man. So, of course, when I found his easy reader series, I was intrigued. Originally published in the early 1990s, they were republished in the past few…
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Picture Book Round-Up #9
Quickie round up of some 2022 picture books I missed because of delayed shippings, including some flavorful Jamaican stories, a bilingual story, an a lovely little Witch Frog Soup Story. Granny’s Kitchen by Sade Smith, Illustrated by Ken Daley Shelly-Anne lives in Jamaica with her grandmother, a renown gardener and cook. When Shelly-Anne decides to…
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Easy Reader Series Series: Starla Jean
“I never thought she would catch the chicken, ” Starla Jean’s dad laments but Starla Jean can do anything she sets her mind too, and after seeing a scrawny chicken in the park, she knows she has to save it and bring it home.
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Easy Reader Series Series: Fox & Chick
Up next in our series on series of Easy Readers, we have Fox & Chick, by Sergio Ruzzier. As of my writing of this, there are four books in the series. Each contains three short stories, told in comic-panel format. Fox & Chick: The Party and Other Stories In this first collection, told in easy…
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Upcoming Releases: Picture Book Round-Up
I just love picture books. I love how moving they can be with just 40 pages and some gorgeous art. I love seeing the didactic messages some adults try to shoe-horn into them. I love when a one page spread of joy brings tears to my eyes. I love what memories a particular character drawing…
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Picture Book Round-Up #8
Back again with another picture book round up–all of these published in 2022, and a mix of fiction and non-fiction. We’ve got books are taking care as a theme here, along with a focus on community. Firefighter Flo! by Andrea Zimmerman, pictures by Dan Yaccarino This is a fun, action-packed story focused on a female…
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Easy Reader Series Series: My Weird School
Time for another look at an Easy Reader Series, the Level 2 Easy reader adaptations of the My Weird School books. I’ll be honest–I haven’t read the chapter books, or the graphic novels, so I don’t know if these are adaptations of those same stories, of just the world, new characters, etc. Regardless, there are…
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January 2023 Reading Recap
I can finally talk about what I’m reading again
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