Cover Reveal! RIVKA’S PRESENTS by Laurie Wallmark & Adelina Lirius
We have been showered with gorgeous picture book covers lately and the latest one is truly a gift! It’s RIVKA’S PRESENTS, written by Laurie Wallmark and...
30 New Picture Books, November 2022
Welcome back, fellow book-loving readers! Today, here are the new picture books from November and other months in 2022 that I might have missed that you...
11 New Easy Readers & Chapter Books
Since teachers, librarians, and parents are always looking for new, excellent books for your growing readers, here’s what’s new in October and November 2022! Easy Readers...
Cover Reveal for BRAVO, AVOCADO! by Chana Stiefel
by Chana Stiefel Back in February 2020, I was sick in bed with a bad cough. In retrospect, the timing was right for a mysterious early...
13 Mixed-Language Spanish/English Picture Books (for children ages three and up)
13 Mixed-Language Spanish/English Picture Books by Meredith Bartolo Pappas If you live in a multilingual household, or want to teach your young child another language, mixed-language...
Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels by Tim Smyth
I’m such a big fan of comics and graphic novels — and wholeheartedly endorse them as authentic and important reading material that teachers can use with...
Favorite Chrome Extensions (Nov 2022)
Google Chrome continues to be my preferred web browser in late 2022. For the past couple years, I’ve been using a school-provided MacOS M1 MacBook Air...
SAME HERE! THE DIFFERENCES WE SHARE by Susan Hughes (plus a giveaway)
One of my favorite things to do is watch food shows, especially those that travel the world in search of good eats. Have you ever noticed...
Children’s Books Mentor Texts to Teach Character Arc
When a character changes from the story’s beginning to the end, it’s called a character arc. These children’s books show character arcs that you can use...
Media Dominoes Fall
In tonight’s EdTech Situation Room webshow and podcast, I shared Storyblocks as my “Geek of the Week.” It is an amazing virtual media library for videographers,...
