Reading lists, activity ideas, digital assets, and other resources to get you started celebrating reading.
"The more expressively we read, the more fantastic the experience will be. The more our kids love books, the more they’ll pretend to read them, and the more they pretend to read, the more quickly they’ll learn to read. So reading aloud is not quite enough—we need to read aloud well."
A website dedicated to kids, books, families and a LOVE of reading. It’s easy to feel daunted by the millions of fantastic books and options out there and at a loss for where to start in choosing books for that special child (or children!) in your life. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, caregiver, or teacher you could use some suggestions on how to begin-and where to go from there. We have lots of ideas for instilling in kids a love of reading and making it part of their lives.
"Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers' favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next."
Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Caldecott
Festivities celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Caldecott Medal will abound at the upcoming American Library Association conference.
Join in the fun with these audio clips—and other resources—about the Caldecott books, which you can share with young readers!
beginning of 4 of her books turned into very good readers theater scripts
good authors site
links to advice for adult and student writers
Wow - blogs celebrating the birthdays' of chilren's authors. Listed by Birthday!
GREAT info and ideas in this blog, described as "Reviews of kids' books and the crazy, fun stuff they inspire us to do." Including the (now annual) Edible Books Festival.
Book lists for special situations, annotated, divided by grade level, with lexile and interest levels.