All month, the ReaderkidZ have been picking our favorite books for the holidays. Funny enough, many other esteemed organizations are doing the same thing. Below are several excellent lists of the best children’s books of 2012 that we thought you might like to check out. Happy reading and happy holidays! Horn Book Fanfare Our Choices… Read more »
Ann Jacobus
Required Reading for the Season
THE CHRISTMAS QUIET BOOK by Deborah Underwood Illustrated by Renata Liwska (Houghton Mifflin, 2012) The Christmas Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood and illustrator Renata Liwska is more of a good thing from the team that brought us The Quiet Book and The Loud Book. The whole idea of getting young children to even think about quiet, especially… Read more »
December 2012: ReaderKidZ Favorites!
These days, it gets dark early in the Northern Hemisphere. We hope that your days and nights are well-lit for reading, with festive lights and scented with evergreens and baked goods, and warmed by flickering firelight–or a working furnace. It’s the season of sharing and that means it’s time to think about PRESENTS! We love… Read more »
On Sendak and Wild Things: Readerkidz Remembers a Giant
Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) Readerkidz Deb Gonzales says: “Years ago, I directed a large summer arts camp for kids ages 3 to 10, the theme of which was “Let the Rumpus Begin!” For the program finale we performed a play based on Where the Wild things Are. As costumes,… Read more »
A CABINET OF EARTHS by Anne Nesbet
Twelve year-old Maya Davidson is spending the year in Paris for her scientist father’s work, along with her ill mother and her annoyingly charming, five year-old brother James. They’ve been invited by the strange Society of Philosophical Chemistry. Turns out the society is run by distant cousins who’ve been… waiting for Maya. Nesbet’s sure storytelling… Read more »
Welcome to the LIBRARIAN’S CORNER!
ReaderKidZ is proud to have two nationally-known children’s librarians, (also both authors and speakers), Jeanette Larson and Kristen Remenar, who can answer your questions and help you find the right children’s book. And they won’t ask you to keep your voice down. We all know reading is a lifelong skill that brings children knowledge and… Read more »
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 »
