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I’m a writer. Recommending books is probably what I do most in my social media life. Those who follow me are accustomed to that,” Messner tells School Library Journal . “This book connects with what’s going on in the news today. I didn’t think anything of it.” - Kate Messner, author

Picture Book About Islam Ignites Twitter Battle (via kishizuka)

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05/24/13

Cream cheese and Red Hots? Really?

Read an interview with Wendy Mass about her new novel, Pi in the Sky, and enter to win a free galley!

05/22/13

The creation of Winnie-the-Pooh will be the subject of a new film.
According to The Daily News’s Page Views blog, Goodbye Christopher Robin, “will explore A.A. Milne’s life between 1918 and 1930 and will disclose details of his relationship with his son, their bond over ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ and how fame affected their lives.”

Shooting is planned for the summer of 2014.

Read more here!

05/21/13

Top 10 Circulated Books of 2013: 3rd-4th grade at Travis Jonker’s Library

10. Friends by Catherine Thimmesh
9. The LEGO Ideas Book
8. 3-D Human Body
7. Dolphin Tale: A Tale of True Friendship by Emma Ryan
6. WWE Head to Head by Jake Black
5. Guinness World Records 2012

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05/15/13

Hankering for some green eggs and ham? Instructables has the recipe.

(link via mental_floss’s “11 Nerdy Recipes from Books, Movies and TV”)

05/14/13

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I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

05/14/13

“Cover reveal: Rick Riordan’s heroes meet in ‘The Son of Sobek’”

05/8/13

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Not all children are treated as badly as I was, and for that we can be grateful. But all children have to work out the role of creativity, fantasy, and learning in their lives, often at the same age I was when books saved me — nine to twelve, the years for reading middle grade books. This is when children are moving toward an identity apart from their families but haven’t yet submerged themselves in peer groups. For these brief and wondrous years, they are individuals open to and ripe for the very best we can give them, including those books written just for them, books that invite them into the world outside their families, their schoolrooms, their own lives.

Jeanne Birdsall, “Middle Grade Saved My Life” (via The Horn Book)

05/2/13

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I also would like to say: You really should have kids review the children’s books (especially reviewers who are the same age as the kids whom the book is intended for).

Second grader Rosa Cohn in a letter to the New York Times

05/1/13

“Extreme Library Makeover: Seating Edition” (via 100 Scope Notes)

04/25/13