Helping Students Navigate the World of Books
Drawn Onward Author: Daniel Nayeri Illustrator: Matt Rockefeller Published October 8th, 2024 by HarperCollins Children’s Books Summary: In this enthralling and emotional palindrome picture book by Daniel Nayeri and Matt Rockefeller, a young boy grieving the loss of his mother embarks on a lushly fantastical adventure that illuminates what remains when our loved ones are … Read more
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? For readers of all ages It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly blog hop we host which focuses on sharing what we’re reading. This Kid Lit version of IMWAYR focuses primarily on books marketed for kids and teens, but books for readers of all ages are shared. … Read more
“Guide Them like Lighthouses to the Shores of Success” When I was in second grade, I considered myself to be the dumbest kid in my class. I came to this rather tragic realization when my teacher instituted a math exercise where we would be given a sheet of fairly simple math equations and a time … Read more
“Brother and Sister Team Co-Author a Children’s Fiction Series Filled with Adventure, Fun, and SEL Opportunities” Hi. I’m Tara Mesalik MacMahon, Closet of Dreams co-author with my brother Mark Ukra. Mark is a HarperCollins author and I’m a James Hearst Poetry Prize winning poet. Most recently we teamed to pen Closet of Dreams, the first … Read more
Remember Us Author: Jacqueline Woodson Published October 10th, 2023 by Nancy Paulsen Books Summary: National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply into life’s burning questions about time and memory and what we take with us into the future. It seems like Sage’s whole world is on fire the … Read more
“Big Problems and Small Fascinations” School requires a lot from young people. Focus, sitting still, hands to yourself, social skills. (This doesn’t end with elementary school. Middle school? For sure. High school? Yep!) This is all hard enough – particularly if you won the neurodivergent lottery – and then you have to throw the whole … Read more
“Delicious Details” How do you create a character that feels three-dimensional? One that readers can immediately picture and connect with? While there are many ways to approach this, I find that the simplest way to quickly nail a character is with details. One of my favorite books about writing, Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, … Read more
