Since 2010, Cathy Mere of Reflect and Refine Building a Learning Community and Mandy Robek of Enjoy and Embrace Learning had hosted #pb10for10, a fabulous event for sharing the power of picture books!  While Cathy and Mandy are still taking a hiatus this year, August 10th will always hold a special place in my heart because ..read more

          Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading.  Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.         Rescue Cat by Stephen Savage Being brave doesn’t come easy to Butterscotch; however, her courage helped ..read more

          Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading.  Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.         Scare School Diaries: Welcome to Scare School (Scare School Diaries #1) by Jarrett Lerner This illustra ..read more

I cherish my teacher summers. I spend time with Bella as I relax, reflect, reset, and read. Grateful to publicists and publishers who graciously share new releases especially stories that I can share with teachers and students in the new school year. All the titles featured in this post recently published on June 25, 2024. The Yellow Bus by Loren Long With both words and art, Long gorgeously chronicles the life of a yellow school bus.  When readers are first introduced to Yellow Bus, she is fulfilling her natural function of transporting children to and from school. Over time, her pur ..read more

Flamingos are Pretty Funky: A (Not So) Serious Guide by Abi Cushman If you went wild for Cushman’s Wombats Are Pretty Weird, you will find her next installment fantastically fabulous.  In the next book in the A (Not So) Serious Guide series, readers of all ages learn fascinating facts about flamingos. Cushman immediately hooks readers speaking directly to them as her artwork zooms out over a few page spreads to reveal the tall, pink wading bird.  Joey the snake from Animals Go Vroom returns to playfully banter with the narrator and the flamingos as details are shared.  Here are ..read more

          Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading.  Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.         Sunny Parker Is Here to Stay by Margaret Finnegan It’s the summer before sixth grade and on the first d ..read more

          Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading.  Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.         Look by Gabi Snyder Illustrated by Samantha Cotterill  When the world feels overwhelming, Snyder i ..read more

          Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading.  Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.         Are you ready for the Solar Eclipse?  Bella is!   Grateful to Barbara Fisch of Blue Slip ..read more

      The Quiet Forest by Charlotte Offsay Illustrated by Abi Cushman On the front endpapers, a brown mouse wearing a purple backpack hides behind a rock in the peaceful woods.  The stillness is short-lived, for the mouse swings on a branch and lands on top of a rabbit’s pancakes snatching breakfast.  The mischievous mouse’s actions set off a comical chain of events involving a bothered beaver, a drenched deer, a miserable moose, and lastly, a bellowing bear and her cub.   I love how Offsay includes alliterative adjectives repeatedly to describe the animals ..read more

          Bella and I are excited to share our latest reads in It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #IMWAYR is a community of bloggers who link up to share what they are reading.  Kellee Moye of Unleashing Readers and Jen Vincent of Teach Mentor Texts decided to give it a #kidlit focus and encourage everyone who participates to visit at least 3 of the other #kidlit book bloggers that link up and leave comments for them.            The results are in for the 2024 Cybil Awards for Easy Reader and Early Chapter Book! H ..read more