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I’ve added a new print-ready poster to my For The Love Of Reading page: You can download the poster here. For more free print-ready literacy posters, activity sheets, bookmarks and more, see For The Love Of Reading. You can also browse my full Print-Ready Archive for teachers, librarians and young readers.
“Picture books create readers from ground up. Don’t rush children out of them.” – Jarrett J. Krosoczka.
I cannot resist a middle grade novel with unique/cool technology as a hook, so was intrigued by the basic synopsis of SIX by M. M. Vaughan (Margaret K. McElderry, 2015): Parker and his sister Emma, with the help of secret advanced technology, can communicate between themselves through their thoughts. When their father . . .
I love what Stephen King said about not waiting for one’s Muse to show up. “Don’t wait for the muse. As I’ve said, he’s a hardheaded guy who’s not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn’t the Ouija board or the spirit-world we’re talking about here, but just . . .
It’s been a while since I’ve awarded the Incredibly Prestigious and Exquisitely Ephemeral Golden Marmot Award, but this week it NEEDS to go to Chuck Wendig for this wonderful tweet. In addition to following @ChuckWendig on Twitter, I encourage you to read his Terribleminds blog. (*** To those offended by strong language: be warned that Chuck embraces it. . . .
In addition to being a debut picture book author, Christian Trimmer is an editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. I love his enthusiasm for kidlit/YA on his Twitter feed, plus he’s edited some pretty amazing books. Like THE DEATH AND LIFE OF ZEBULON FINCH by Daniel Kraus (here’s what I posted about . . .
For those interested, the Font Nerd Table comic above is now available as a greeting card in my card shop. I do admit that I over-used Comic Sans and Papyrus when they first came out. Fontfaces are so much like fashion, aren’t they? You have the basic fontfaces which never seem . . .
Patricia Newman is the author of fiction and nonfiction titles, and magazine articles for children. She writes what she wants to know and has covered topics as diverse as ocean plastic, trains, fighter pilots, and Ebola. Although many of her books have received critical acclaim, she writes for the kid she . . .
Thanks to those who answered my dog-earing survey! Exactly 100 people responded. I know the percentages don’t add up to exactly 100; I think SurveyMonkey was rounding up or down. It was fun to see how OPINIONATED many of us are about dog-earing pages in books; non-readers just wouldn’t care, . . .
I’ve added a new print-ready poster to my For The Love Of Reading page: “Be A Reading Ninja!” It prints on an 8.5 x 11″ sheet of paper. Download it here. This is also now available as a “Be A Reading Ninja!” greeting card. You can find ALL my free, print-ready bonus material in . . .