Kids and adults alike are drawn to stories about man’s best friend. This selection of Cybils Middle Grade Fiction nominees will reach a wide range of ages and interests. Though I am a Round I panelist in this Middle Grade fiction category for the Cybils, my opinions are solely my own and are not meant…
Category Archives: ages 6 – 9
If You Give a Dog a Donut
If You Give a Dog a Donut is the latest from the fabulous duo Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. How did I miss this? They are true modern classics. I shared them with my daughter, now 13, and a couple of years ago, my now 7-year-old son ran right to the NUM section of the…
Holiday Picture Books, and Giveaway Link
The holidays are fast approaching, and about this time every year, I love to pull our always-growing collection of winter and holiday-themed books off the shelf in my daughter’s room. For the next month or so, they will inhabit various baskets in our living room, always at the ready for a reading by the fire…
Stand-Out Cybils Nominated Picture Books, #8
For this week’s round-up of Cybils-nominated books, I’ve chosen three titles that have interested my children and me because of their focus on nature, animals and a unique way of thinking about living versus non-living things. Like many picture books, these are suitable for a range of ages from preschool through early elementary school children….
Three Cups
We’ve had a lot of discussions about money in our household lately. I’ve been sort of consistent about giving an allowance lately to my kids, and on top of that my 13-year-old daughter has recently started earning some of her own money babysitting and pet sitting. The way we handle and think about money is…
Stand-Out Cybils Nominated Picture Books, #6
I’m sometimes a bit neurotic about books and how they are placed on their shelves. In my classroom, I like to make our bookshelves neat with similarly-themed books near each other, and at home, I often go for the basket option, keeping some nonfiction titles on one topic in one, while fairy tales and nursery…
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers: The Life of Marc Chagall in Verse
Marc Chagall, famed pioneer of the modernist art movement, was born a Russian Jew in a small Russian town called Vitebsk. He ended up changing the world of art, celebrated in New York, Paris and Berlin, well-known more than a century later. Writers Jane Yolen and J. Patrick Lewis have put together a gorgeous new…
Stand-Out Cybils Nominated Picture Books, #5
Another Friday, another trio of Cybils Award nominated picture books for you, care of the gigantic stack on my dining room floor right now. (Thank goodness for my local public library!) This week, I’ve chosen to highlight books from three authors whose names you just may recognize from their previous works. These are releases from…
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