February 2012
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Swipe, Tap, Flick and . . . Read? Research on... →
The news media and blogosphere were abuzz last month with the news that Apple is “reinventing the textbook” through the introduction of digital textbooks available for the iPad. With the announcement has come a myriad of opinions and speculations regarding the possible repercussions of Apple’s textbook reinvention for schools and for children’s learning. Many celebrate the...
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...
There are books I read as a child that I have re-read periodically ever since; there are children’s books that I have only known as an adult, and then there are the books that I read when I was young but for some reason haven’t read since. There’s nothing really strange about this; I am, after all, nominally an adult, and not every book one reads as a kid merits being returned to...
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Women and Children First! Why anyone who cares... →
Great Gay Teen Books from Alex Sanchez →
realkidsgoodbooks:
Alex Sanchez has compiled a great list of LGBTQ books for teens. He’s the author of a number of books including, Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It, The God Box and Boyfriends with Girlfriends.
“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If...”
– Judy Blume, born today in 1938. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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Horror for Kids: How Goosebumps outlasted Harry... →
Goosebumps celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via bookmania)
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Even Crocodiles Get the Blues →
In new picture books, one crocodile stands out in workaday Oslo; another watches as other species disappear from the wild.
(As a native Floridian, I’m partial to these readable reptiles.)
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Urban Children's Literature in Short Supply,... →
Does it seem possible that over the last decade, only one book series for early readers—those in the 2nd and 3rd grade range—features a main character who is Latino?
That rather stunning discovery was made by Jane Fleming, a professor at the Erikson Institute in Chicago, with her colleague Sandy Carillo, a literacy and language specialist who works with English learners in a school district...
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Mulberry Street May Fade, but ‘Mulberry Street’... →
And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street turns 75.
A tour of Springfield, Mass., where Ted Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, was raised, suggests that some of the images from his books were inspired by things he saw growing up.
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What was your favorite YA novel of 2011?
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What book will you give your valentine this year?