By: Kelly Butcher,
on 1/23/2012
By: Kara Schaff Dean, the Yankeerat,
on 1/26/2009
Well, after this morning's Newbery Committee announcement, this is sort of a no brainer! It's one of those books that I've been meaning to catch the next time I saw it come across the circ desk. But now that it's the 2009 winner, I'll step up my efforts. I've already ordered a second copy for our collection. I wonder how the imminent release of Coraline in theatres played into this, if at all.
By: Becky,
on 1/7/2008
The New Year's edition of the Learning in the Great Outdoors Carnival is up, hosted by Terrell at Alone on a Limb. Terrell writes,
Learning in the Great Outdoors is intended as a trading center for those who use, or want to use, the environment as an integrating context for learning. If you are a teacher, a nature center educator or naturalist, a homeschooler who wants to use the environment in your studies, an amateur or professional botanist or zoologist or geologist or other science buff, a parent, a student --- anyone with an interest in sharing the environment with children, please join us!Not only are there some nifty and fun posts and pictures to keep you reading for quite some time, but news of some new (and new to me) and helpful blogs, including Open Wide, Look Inside, with links for using poetry and children's literature in just about every subject, from Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect.
By: Becky,
on 1/3/2008
I had a very nice note this morning from teacher Terrell Shaw, to let me know that he has put some original poetry to my photograph of a robin's egg. As I replied to him, the kids got quite a kick out of seeing my photo accompanied by his poem; and in the midst of a Canadian winter, the idea of robins and their eggs gives me a little thrill, not to mention hope for Spring. In addition to his
This was my first year of feeling invested in the Newbery/Caldecott thing. I really tried to keep up with the books that seemed to be getting lots of buzz, buying them (which has to be done WAY ahead of time since I'm overseas) and reading them. So, when books won that I didn't have it was a bit disappointing. For sure I'll buy them now, but it would have been fun to feel more "in the loop." Oh well! Maybe next year :)