It’s the first day of school for me! I probably could not be more excited. In the meantime, while I’m off teaching about the Caldecott award, how to use the Dewey Decimal System, and reading aloud until my voice disappears, please leave me your suggestions for Tell Me What to Read, Round 3! It can be any genre, any age…
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A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck
9 of 10: I love Richard Peck, and A Season of Gifts is a worthy addition to his series about Grandma Dowdel. So sweet and funny and perfect. Richard Peck is second only to Gary D. Schmidt in my “authors I think are absolutely brilliant and also very likely incredibly nice people” list. a season of gifts by richard peck…
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At Long Long Last
Finally! Here is the apartment in all its glory. There are still a few things waiting to be sold, but, you know, sometimes you just have to move forward. Much as I am doing now. Pretend you don’t notice the mini-TV and the two motorcycle helmets (the motorcycle? got sold four years ago. We are a bit slow). I drew…
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Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman
7 of 10: Not my all-time favorite retelling, but Radiant Darkness is a pretty solid one nonetheless. This book was the pick for Round 2 of Tell Me What to Read and was suggested by the lovely ladies at Bookworm Nation, a blog I had never heard of before last month but now absolutely adore. Just another fringe benefit of…
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Small Things
You all know how much I love Texas. But Texas and I got off to kind of a bad start when I went, the first or second week I lived there, to get my new driver’s license. Bart and I had only been married about 8 months at that point, so I’d gotten a new driver’s license the week after…
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