September is Library Card Sign-Up Month – a time when the American Library Association and libraries across the country remind parents that the most important school supply of all is found at your public library–it’s your library card! Since 1988, the month of September has marked a month of celebration and a continuation of a national campaign launched nationwide!… Read more »
August 2010
The Power of a Name
The term “Old Favorite” is what ReaderKidZ uses to describe a book that’s been around a while. A book that finds its way, year after year, into the collection of those that are read and shared many times over the course of any given year. CHRYSANTHEMUM by Kevin Henkes, is one such book. Not only… Read more »
THE IMPORTANT BOOK
When summer ends and a new school year has begun, one activity that helps kids recognize the ways in which each student brings something unique to the classroom is a reading of THE IMPORTANT BOOK by Margaret Wise Brown with illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. The story opens, “The important thing about a spoon is that…”… Read more »
Rocket Learns to Read, a Lion in the Library, and Book, Book, Books!
HOW ROCKET LEARNED TO READ by Tad Hills Tad Hills (Duck and Goose) is back with another perfect book for beginning-to-read ReaderKidZ (and even for those who are already experts!). Until the little yellow bird comes along, Rocket is perfectly happy chasing leaves, chewing sticks, and lying down under a favorite tree for a nap. … Read more »
School Supplies
SCHOOL SUPPLIES: A BOOK OF POEMS selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrated by Renee Flower This first in a series of school-based poetry collections includes poems about pencils and erasers (“Pencils” by Carl Sandburg and “The Eraser Poem” by Louis Phillips), paperclips and globes (“Paper Clips” and “Classroom Globe” by Rebecca Kai Dotlich), a rubber… Read more »
Special Guest…Author Christina Gonzalez!
In her upper middle grade novel THE RED UMBRELLA, first-time author Christina Gonzalez has written a timely story about political upheavals and how they can affect families. We are glad to welcome her to ReaderKidZ. Read more about Christina and her new book HERE.
The Red Umbrella
In a timely story of political upheaval and the heart-wrenching separation of families which results, THE RED UMBRELLA, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez, tells the story of 14-year-old Lucia and her younger brother, who are sent to live with a foster family in Nebraska by their parents at the beginning of Fidel’s Castro’s revolution. The book is based on a… Read more »
