OUT & ABOUT: June 21, 2009

Happy Father's Day to my husband and to all the great dads of the world!


Cruising around the Kidlitosphere recently, I found the following posts and articles. I hope you find some interesting reading and book suggestions.

• From BookDads: 20th Edition Book Review Blog Carnival, which includes a section called Father’s Day Finds
• Pam Coughlan has reviews of three picture books about dads just in time for Father’s Day at Booklights.
• Pam also has a post about summer reading at Booklights. Check out Summer Reading, Having a Blast
• There’s a new “Monthly Special” list of recommended book at The Horn Book site: Folklore Around the World.
• What Makes a Good Science Book?, an article by Janet Hamilton (The Horn Book Magazine, May/June 2009)
• From Jen Robinson's Book Page: Thursday Afternoon Visits: June 18. Jen always has a great roundup of links for us.

OUT & ABOUT: June 3, 2009

Here & There

• 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature Announced
• Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards: Video of 2008 Ceremony
• From Publishers Weekly—BookExpo America 2009: Fall Children’s Highlights (By Diane Roback, with reporting by Joy Bean and John A. Sellers)
• Children’s Bookshelf (Publishers Weekly, May 28, 2009)
• From Kelly Fiineman at Writing and Ruminating—Brush Up Your Shakespeare in June - Introduction
• From Jen Robinson’s Book Page—Children's Literacy Round-Up: June 1
• From MotherReader—The Fourth Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge

Summer Reading for Children & Adults

• From knoxnews.com—A need to read: What parents can do to encourage summer reading
• From the Motherlode blog at The New York Times (June 1, 2009)—A Summer Reading List for Parents (By Lisa Belkin)
• From NPR—Summer Books 2009
• From A Wrung Sponge—Summer Reading links
• From Wild Rose Reader—Summer Reading: Books, Poetry, & Other Resources

One More Thing

• Over at Politcal Verses— The Vietcong Tunnels: A Poem by J. Patrick Lewis

Out & About: February 25, 2009

From Read Write Think (IRA & NCTE): Read Across America Day Celebrates Dr. Seuss (March 2, 2009)—This site includes links to lesson plans and other websites.


From the National Education Association: NEA’s Read Across America—You can download free digital read-along versions of Dr. Seuss books, resources, and other materials at this site.


NCTE’s National Day on Writing—Interested in taking part in NCTE’s National Day of Writing on October 20, 2009? Then check out this site that has the information you need—as well as links to writing resources. (You can also read more about this day at this Wild Rose Reader post: NCTE's National Day on Writing.)


From Jen Robisnon’s Book Page: Announcing the Share a Story - Shape a Future Literacy Blog Tour


At Under the Covers: The January 2009 Carnival of Children’s Literature

Of Books, Writing, & Reading Aloud

Following are links to some interesting newspaper articles and blog posts:

• Here’s an article from The Vancouver Sun written by Chris Lackner: Coraline author Neil Gaiman an explorer of strange, new worlds (February 5, 2009)
  
  


• Here’s an article from The Orlando Sentinel written by Leslie Postal: Orlando-area students learn to escape the FCAT writing 'cage' (February 9, 2009)
  
  


• And from The Seattle Times, here’s an interesting article by Isolde Raftery: Infants learn earlier than thought (February 3, 2009)

• From Millie Davis at the NCTE Inbox blog: To Read Aloud or Not to Read Aloud (Note: Davis includes a link to Franki Sibberson’s post of February 9th at A Year of Reading—Reading Aloud Conversation.

• Reading Aloud Conversation includes a link to How Can We Encourage Reading Aloud? At Jen Robinson’s Book page.