I finished the final book (so far),  in the Wimpy Kid series,  Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney.
About the book:
Product Description
It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn.
Greg, a [...]

I’m always adding to my classroom library with medal winners and during our book fair I picked up The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein,  2004 Caldecott Medal winner.
About the book: This effectively spare, lyrical account chronicles Philippe Petit’s tight rope walk between Manhattan’s World Trade Center towers in 1974. Gerstein [...]

Continuing in on my comic novel spree, Book #3 in the Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney was The Last Straw.
About the book: For those wondering why tween boys don’t read very much, the answer is that more books aren’t like this. In this third (but not last, despite the subtitle’s implication) series entry, Greg [...]

Making my way through getting caught up on Newbery Medal winners, I read Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins, the 2006 winner.
About the book: From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 6-9–The author of the popular All Alone in the Universe (HarperCollins, 1999) returns with another character study involving those moments that occur in everyone’s life–moments when [...]

Lo and behold I saw a big cutout poster of the Wimpy Kid in the airport this morning so I picked up the first book: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: A Novel in Cartoons. (I posted yesterday about reading the second book to my class but wished that I had the first one to read [...]

School book: Some of the kids requested that I read  Diary of a Wimpy Kid  by Jeff Kinney to them after lunch. We had a book fair and they didn’t have the original one but they did have the second one, Rodrick Rules so I’m reading it to them. (I like it..hehe!)
About the book: The [...]

As part of my quest to keep up and read all of the Newbery Medal winners, I’m reading Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz. It’s a book of monologues of each of the characters in the village.
About the Book: From Publishers Weekly
Schlitz (The Hero Schliemann ) wrote these [...]

Reading another one by one of my favorite educators, Esme Raji Codell.  It’s a booklist of sorts with lots of suggestions of children’s literature throughout the ages.
About the book:
Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized [...]

I love Children’s Literature and I still plan on reading as many Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor books as I can until I’m up to date. Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes is a 2004 honor book and I’m listening to it from the shores of beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee while I knit away and relax this [...]

I enjoy reading children’s literature and Lois Lowry is one of the best. I spotted Gossamer in the e-book section of my library website so I downloaded down this short one as a filler. I headed out to the library tonight and grabbed some new audio books but it’s nice to have the electronic downloads [...]