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Intriguing! I definitely think my husband does not have the same tendency as I do. I ended up being an Obliger, which I guess isn't that surprising.
Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: November 30: #ReadingAloud, Teaching #Writing + Encouraging #Play
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter over the past two weeks @JensBookPage. Topics in this edition include #BookLists, #Bookstores, #drawing, #Giftedness, #grading, #GrowingBookworms, #introversion, #memory, #parenting, #PersonalizedLearning, #play, #reading, #STEM, #Stud...
Have you read The Four Tendencies? I haven't yet, but I took the quiz online and wasn't sure how I felt about the results. It's an interesting way of looking at personality, though...
Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: November 30: #ReadingAloud, Teaching #Writing + Encouraging #Play
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter over the past two weeks @JensBookPage. Topics in this edition include #BookLists, #Bookstores, #drawing, #Giftedness, #grading, #GrowingBookworms, #introversion, #memory, #parenting, #PersonalizedLearning, #play, #reading, #STEM, #Stud...
Oh, El Deafo is another great one! I'm sure she'll love it as much as Real Friends.
Also, I love this milestone. :D I hope it's still a while before she gets to the "can't sleep because of scary book" milestone, though.
Literacy Milestone: Staying Up Too Late Reading
We've all been there (those reading this blog anyway), groggy in the morning because we stayed up too late reading the night before. My daughter experienced this last week for the first time. It was my fault, really. When I read about Real Friends, by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham, I KNEW she wo...
Love this--it's fascinating to read about those milestones! Also, love the new blog design (probably not new, but it's been a tough few months for visiting blogs...). Clean and simple!
Mathematical Milestones: Counting How Many Days
I noticed recently that my daughter has acquired a new math skill. She can (with some help regarding the number of days in each month), figure out how many days it will be until some future date. This is an important skill for kids, because they often urgently want to know things like: How ma...
Those are great! I particularly enjoyed The Fifth Wave and its sequel. Very exciting and suspenseful sci-fi.
Children's and YA Books I Have Shared with My Husband
In my review of The Living by Matt de la Peña, I mentioned this: "as soon as I closed the book I said to my husband "You have GOT to read this" (something I reserve for only a select few titles each year)." My husband doesn't read nearly as many books as I do, so I reserve the cream of the cr...
Resolutions are always interesting for me, because I'm never sure whether to go for the more inspirational, general, overarching ideas for the year, or a list of more concrete and specific goals.
However, tomorrow during our writing group we're going to share some of our writing resolutions--and I do have a few of those! :)
WordGirl's Word of the Month for January: Resolution
It's not exactly original, but WordGirl's Word of the Month for January is certainly fitting. RESOLUTION: A promise we make with ourselves. I'm not all that big on resolutions, per se. But I have set three goals for myself (and my daughter) for this year: Sleep more/better Read more Exercise m...
Thanks for posting my review! :)
Review of Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant
Finding Wonderland has been around since 2005, forever in the Kidlitosphere. Aquafortis contribute to this blog and has this to say about this nomination to the Graphic Novel division: "If yo u like swashbuckling adventure, strong female protagonists, and plenty of outlandish mayhem, then Delila...
I loved this post! Everyone's recap is slightly different and reminds me of great moments I forgot to mention myself. :) I'm going to love looking at these over the course of the next week.
Also, thanks for posting the group photos! Those are wonderful.
KidLitCon 2013: Connecting with Kindred Spirits
I'm back after spending four days in Austin for KidLitCon. I lived in Austin for 3 1/2 years a while back, and I am always happy to have an excuse to visit. Of course I would go almost anywhere to attend KidLitCon, but it was a bonus that it was held somewhere that I wanted to visit anyway. An ...
Thank you so much for the plug, Jen! :) I'm so glad you enjoyed the book. And you hit it right on the head re: diverse characters. I don't always want to write "about" ethnicity, but I also tend to put my characters into a diverse world that reflects the one I grew up in, and I hope it's one that will feel familiar to a lot of readers.
I really am thrilled--I always feel so happy when someone really "gets" what I'm trying to do. Thank you!
Underneath: Sarah Jamila Stevenson
Book: Underneath Author: Sarah Jamila Stevenson (@aquafortis) Pages: 336 Age Range: 12 and up Whether or not I should review books by authors I know on one level or another is something that I struggle with. In the case of Sarah Jamila Stevenson's Underneath, I'm going to come down on the side...
This is a great idea for a post--roundup of Twitter links. I may steal it. :)
I hadn't realized EL Konigsburg died. From the Mixed-Up Files was a huge childhood favorite of mine.
Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: April 26
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Book Lists and Awards Check out the 2013 Eisner Award Nominees for kids and teens | @tashrow http://ow.ly/klBw5 Stacked rounds up April Debut YA Novels http://ow.ly/kogcF @catagator #yalit Love lists? Check ...
Fascinating discussion, Jen. I don't have too much to add, but I'd love it if there were some way that I, as a blogger, could get my reviews to more readers who might find them helpful--speaking as someone on the other side of the equation. Other than really doing a push on the Children's Book Reviews wiki, I'm not sure what the answer is!
How Can We Help Parents to Find Quality Books for their Children?
I found considerable food for thought in this TeleRead article by Joanna Cabot (brought to my attention by Susan Stephenson from The Book Chook). Cabot shares some thoughts from her "Beloved's" sister, the mother of a toddler and a newborn, regarding the problems that this mother sees in the mar...
JUMPER was interesting. My mom lent it to me a while back, and I think I read it and the sequel. As I recall, it wasn't originally a YA necessarily...is that right? I'm not sure.
BUT. I do agree with you about Hayden Christiansen. I did not see the movie.
On the Tenth Day of Christmas... Jumper -- Steven Gould
On the Tenth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me ten lords-a-leaping... Despite the fact that both Rachel Bilson and Michael Rooker are in it, I never did see the movie based on this book. Because, you know: Hayden Christiansen. Anyway, judging by the half-trailers-worth of footage I've...
<3 this post. :)
Wish I could have been at Kidlitcon this year!
A few things I'm thankful for: 2012.
Josh and I just got home from a big Thanksgiving feast at my aunt & uncle's house. Which was loud and hot and fun and as entertaining as ever. And, hilariously, the "adults" still switch into French when they want to say anything that they don't want us "kids" to hear. So now that we're all sett...
Congrats and WOW!! That's awesome news!
The Big Secret Revealed: Blackwood TV Deal (!!!)
From Deadline: MTV has put in development Blackwood, a drama from Lionsgate Television and Kelsey Grammer’s Grammnet Prods. It is based on the young adult book of the same name by Gwenda Bond, which was published this past September on the Strange Chemistry YA imprint of UK-based science ficti...
Amy, thanks!!
Some Lists Need Love!
Hello, book lovers! The nominations process is speeding along--after a day or two we worked out most of the kinks in the new nomination form, and people have been coming by and letting us know their favorite titles. BUT--there are still a few categories that need some love (particularly NFMGYA,...
Cool. I love crows.
Weirdly, it looks like a colored pencil drawing. I've never quite been able to master the watercolor monoprint. How did you get such detailed lines?
Crow
This summer I've been a mentor at the Kent Bellows Studio. I've been teaching high school students a few different types of printmaking. The first couple weeks we worked on monoprinting. This was my working example of watercolor monoprinting. Love this blackbird!
This was one of the first Lois Duncan books I read. Her books were the only really scary ones I actually enjoyed as a kid! (I have a low tolerance for scary...) Stranger With My Face gave me major nightmares, though. :)
Down a Dark Hall: Lois Duncan
Book: Down a Dark Hall Author: Lois Duncan (@duncanauthor) Pages: 240 Age Range: 10-14 For my 7th read of the 48 Hour Book Challenge, I was inspired (by Kelly Jensen) to re-read Lois Duncan's Down a Dark Hall. I was an avid reader of Duncan's young adult novels in my teens and early twenties....
Nice job, Jen!! I'm in awe. :) I wish I could have fit in more reading time.
48 Hour Book Challenge: Finish Line
I am just about at the end of my 48 Hour Book Challenge, finishing at 29 hours and 30 minutes of reading, blogging, and connecting over the past 48 hours. Had I known I would end up so close, I might have tried to stay up later last night, to make it to 30 hours. But really, I'm just thrilled t...
I need to get my copy of this one! I can't wait to read the final version--we saw various early iterations in our writing group, but it's fun to compare with the published result.
Happy Families: Tanita S. Davis
Book: Happy Families Author: Tanita S. Davis (blog) Pages: 240 Age Range: 12 and up My second book for the 2012 48 Hour Book Challenge was Happy Families by Tanita Davis. It seemed fitting to read a book by one of my Kidlitosphere pals for this community-building event. Although Tanita and I h...
OH NO THERE IS AN INSTANCE OF PROFANITY IN MY NOVEL. Oh mah gracious. *Faints*
I'll have to agree with all the commenters: I learned my first curse words from my parents, and/or ex-Navy grandfather. (Not that he actually cursed like a sailor, but I like the idea...)
STOP THE PRESSES: YA books contain profanity!
At Jezebel: YA Books Aren’t Teaching Kids How to Swear, But Let’s Go Ahead and Blame Them Anyhow. *faints*
That is awesomesauce. I may have to attempt it.
Bigger on the inside...
...a Doctor Who scarf for grown-ups. I WANT IT. Not that I'll ever, ever, EVER be too mature to wear my Tom Baker scarf.
Awesome. I'm Krumpet Huggledeen, District 9, killed by...wait for it...JEALOUSY.
The Hunger Names.
The first one I got was Aloe Rabbledod, of District Two, who gets killed by acid rain. Heh. Have a blast. (via Librarified)
I've always really liked the humor in his writing voice. Glad he's got a new one out!
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip: Jordan Sonnenblick
Book: Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip Author: Jordan Sonnenblick Pages: 304 Age Range: 12 and up I've been a fan of Jordan Sonnenblick's novels since reading Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie five years ago. I even interviewed Jordan for the Summer Blog Blast Tour in 2007, back when I was still d...
They all look slightly creepy, like aliens.
The Composites.
Images of literary characters created with law enforcement composite software.
Congrats to all the winners! As always, it was a treat and a privilege to be involved as a judge. I can't wait to read the ones I haven't yet, especially Stupid Fast and Nerd Camp.
The 2011 Cybils Awards
Greetings, fellow bookworms. Our sixth season culminates with a new list of our favorite books of 2011, the ones that kids couldn't put down and adults couldn't refuse. We don't want Mom frowning or the Librarian to catch any flak, after all. One way to look at the Cybils is that instead of tell...
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