Category: Children’s Literature
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Goodbye 2019-2020
Schools often celebrate their annual ending with field day, assemblies, graduations, and parties – a two-week conclusionary hurrah. With or without the celebrations, it’s time to say goodbye. Highlighting books that include sentimental hopes for future endeavors feels like a good way to close out this school year – books that substitute for the yearbook…
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Choice
Last night my daughter suggested we play a board game we had purchased at a thrift store but never figured out how to play. Why not? This shelter-in-place time has been great for that sort of thing – trying things we’ve always meant to try. The game was about choice. And, I won. Most likely…
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Change
It didn’t take long for life to flip upside down. As an elementary school librarian without a library, students or books, my role has changed. I can still read to my kids and have opportunities to recommend books – but only electronically. For chemo families, much of this situation feels familiar: after receiving unexpected news,…
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Giraffes
Have you noticed an increase in giraffe books lately? I’ll mention three that I’ve added to my collection. If you go to Kohl’s this month, you may notice a stuffed giraffe and it’s coordinating book by Jory John and Lane Smith called Giraffe Problems. It is one of those wonderful stories of new friendship and…
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Art
While working on my bachelor’s degree, I optimistically took an art class intended for elementary school teachers. It filled a requirement, and I thought it might help in future author/illustrator endeavors. It didn’t go as I had hoped. I received an A in the course, but sketches of wine bottles and cloth napkins aren’t practical…
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Welcome to my book blog :-)
On the first day of working at a school, the most important question to answer is… “What do you want the students to call you?” For a classified employee, a common option is to add “Miss” to your first name, combining the expected display of respect with the intimacy of first name usage. During my…
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