Alien Encounter by Charise Mericle Harper (Book 1 of the Sasquatch and Alien series (Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt & Co.) Fourth-grader Morgan Henry meets a new-kid-in-town when the latter is stuck hanging in a tree with a “giant wedgie.” The boys bond after Morgan cuts Lewis free (and thump, down). Line drawings throughout illustrate this and… Read more »
Ann Jacobus
Librarian’s Corner: Summer Time Adventures With Author Frances Lee Hall, or We’ll Get There When We Get There!
Summer has snuck up on us again. Another school year coming to a close, another “move up day” at my daughter’s school soon to be completed. And that means many families are hitting the road, or taking to the skies, for an adventure. Ah, the Family Vacation. As a kid, my family took vacations to… Read more »
Fun Summer Series Reads: Zapato Power!
Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Stomps the Snow by Jaqueline Jules, art by Miguel Benitez (Albert Whitman & Co,, 2014 84 pages. Part of the Cybils award-winning Freddie Ramos series) This early chapter book will be a perfect hot summer read to cool off transitional readers. Freddie Ramos possesses an extraordinary pair of super powered shoes. He lives in… Read more »
Librarian’s Corner: Summer Vacation Reads
Hooray for summer! As a school librarian, I love summer – maybe even more than my students. It’s the time of the year when I can catch up on all the wonderful books that I didn’t get a chance to read during the school year. I adore experiencing new worlds, people, and places from the comfort… Read more »
Librarian’s Corner: How to Help a Young Reader Choose the Best Book
Our guest librarian, Megan Poynter Fink, knows how to help young and old readers alike find a book that will hook them. “Books Fall Open, You Fall In, Delighted Where You’ve Never Been…” wrote the poet David McCord. Finding the right book can be a puzzle when students enter my library and have that “I don’t… Read more »
Librarian’s Corner: More Poetry Picks!
When my teenager was young, I wanted to share good poetry with her without taking away her choice of bedtime books, so I started, unintentionally, a strange tradition of reading to her from children’s poetry collections while she took her baths. She was a dawdling bather and my only child at the time, so we… Read more »
Librarian’s Corner: Poetry for Everyone!
When I was young, I was not a strong reader starting out, but my grandparents’ leather-bound books of children’s literature contained things I could read with ease: poems. Poetry culls some of the best features of language – wordplay, rhythm, tone, voice, rhyme, and more – down to bite-sized delights that can be enjoyed in… Read more »
