BOOKS ABOUT OUR NATURAL WORLD PLUS ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY: Green Earth Book Award Winners GREEN EARTH celebrated its 10th anniversary of the Green Earth Book Award last month events at the Read Green Festival. Part of this celebration included a donation of 10,000 environmental books to schools. Each year Green Earth Book Awards are given to… Read more »
Nancy Bo Flood
COLORS OF THE WIND
COLORS OF THE WIND is a picture-book biography with startling paintings that open your eyes, and also a true story about an Olympic champion runner and award-winning artist who is blind: George Mendoza. The author, J.L. Powers, tells us: “To me, it’s an amazing story of someone who has persisted and found such an incredible… Read more »
YES! WE ARE LATINOS
YES! WE ARE LATINOS By Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, pictures by David Diaz Voices! The power and pride singing throughout this book is felt in each of the thirteen distinctive narrative poems. Each poem is told in the first-person voice of a Latino child who introduces his or her unique cultural background… Read more »
THE HAUNTED LIBRARY
THE HAUNTED LIBRARY PLUS A VERY SPOOKY #2 BOOK IN THIS SERIES: THE GHOST IN THE ATTIC By Edgar Award Winner, Dori Hillestad Butler Whoever heard of a friendship between a girl and a ghost? And who has been spooked at night, alone in bed, when sounds of creaking and someone moving around in the… Read more »
NEVER SAY A MEAN WORD AGAIN
NEVER SAY A MEAN WORD AGAIN, A TALE FROM MEDIEVAL SPAIN Written by Jacqueline Jules and illustrated by Durga Yael Bernhard What could be more universal than name-calling and fighting – between children or adults? What could be harder to teach than effective conflict resolution? Choosing to become friends rather than to become an enemy, is… Read more »
NOVELS in VERSE — another way to enjoy story!
Novels in verse, but first, a poem taste. April – Poetry Month continues. We can choose to read an anthology, a whole collection of poems. Sometimes the power of one poem fills our heart and causes us to pause, imagine, ponder. I would like to share the beginning of this poem by Arnold Adoff: “…… Read more »
WHERE MY WELLIES TAKE ME
WHERE MY WELLIES TAKE ME by Clare and Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill Remember picking dandelions? Splashing through puddles in your rubber boots, which in England are called “wellies”? Michael and Claire Morpurgo have created a charming book of discovery and poetry. Claire has selected a wide variety of poems to include as part of the “image… Read more »
