Eleven year old Melody Brooks was born with Cerebral Palsy. Confined to a wheelchair and unable to walk, talk or feed herself, Melody longs to communicate and be just like a “normal” kid. Thousands – maybe millions – of words swirl inside her head. Trapped. With her fierce determination and encouraged by her family, Melody… Read more »
February 2012
Funny Books Rule! Why Kids Love Them
I was so pleased that Jack Gantos’s DEAD END IN NORVELT won the Newbery medal this year. Because it’s funny! Humor doesn’t always get the respect and prizes it deserves. Newberys have gone to humorous books only a couple of times in the last fifty years, mainly since 1999*. We tend to assume that if… Read more »
E-mergency! by Tom Lichtenheld and Ezra Fields-Meyer
Chronicle Books has created some super supplemental material to support the cleverly hilarious picture book, E-mergency! – some great lessons and activities designed to keep a child engaged in the story for a very long time. And, as studies show, the longer a child is engaged in stories, letter recognition and comprehension skills are developed. E-mergency! just might be the book… Read more »
E-MERGENCY by Tom Lichtenheld
TOM REVEALS: The Story Behind the Story… E-mergency began when this video, created by Ezra Fields-Meyer, was sent to me by my friend and collaborator, Amy Krouse Rosenthal. In the video, one of the letters falls off the roof and has to go to the hospital. I immediately wondered what the repercussions of such a… Read more »
