Poet Brod Bagert is the author of over ten books of poetry for children, young adults, and adults. A former lawyer and New Orleans City Councilman, Bagert penned his first poem as a favor to his daughter, who needed a poem to recite in a school program. Bagert realized that few poems written in children’s…
Category: Children’s Literature
Interview with Tim Federle, Author of Better Nate Than Ever
What is your birthdate?: 3/24 Previous occupations: Broadway actor, with rest-stops at the Super Bowl (as a Christina Aguilera backup dancer) and Radio City Music Hall (as a CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR polar bear). Favorite job: This one! Revealing Questions Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words? A. Honestly? Extremely dangerous. Oh, wait….
Integrating Technology in the Classroom
Stacey Roshan, an Advanced Placement calculus teacher at Bullis School—a private school for students grades three through 12 in Potomac, Md.—faced the problem of trying to keep her students engaged as she walked them through the difficult mathematics curriculum. During her previous three years at the school, Roshan notes, students were routinely stupefied by the…
How Classroom Libraries Work
Research shows that classroom libraries help students attain reading achievement. These key points from Scholastic’s Classroom Libraries Work: Research & Results provide concrete examples that will help you build an effective skill-building library for your students. Additional research support for the importance of classroom libraries can be found here. Children learning to read need access…
NEW: Graphic Novel Series HILO by Judd Winick, Cartoonist and former cast member of MTV’S The Real World
First Book in the Series to be Published in Spring 2015 “Winick has a sense of timing and adventure that is rare in children’s literature, and a knack for thinking like a kid that’s even rarer. I think it’s because he still is one at heart. HILO is delightful, silly, tender, and most importantly: funny.”…
Poems Throughout the School Day
Crossposted on Yahoo! Introducing Poetry throughout the School Day For millennia – even before Homer started reciting The Iliad and The Odyssey – we humans have been telling one another poems. Even today, children and adolescents often spontaneously make up poems to tell one another, in jump-rope rhymes, insults and comebacks, riddles, and other verses. What…
SQUISH #4: Captain Disaster and other great middle grade books
SQUISH #4: Captain Disaster by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm When trouble calls, there is a single cell who has the courage to do what’s right….Squish! “Even the mildest young boy will see something of himself in Squish. Super Amoeba is an energetic, good-hearted escapade, one that young readers will enjoy.”—New York Times Book…
Another View of the Holocaust
Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex, but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? On July 13, 1942, 15-year-old Peter van Pels and his parents entered the attic that became their home for two years. Peter is angry that he is hiding and not…
Jane Yolen and J. Patrick Lewis provide LAST LAUGHS: ANIMAL EPITAPHS, illustrated by Jeffrey Stewart Timmins
“Last Laughs” Here at Amen Creature Corners, beasties weep like misty mourners, but when they read an epitaph, it always brings them one last laugh. Forget the hankies. Read the words of bugs and fishes, beasts and birds. They know it’s not all gloom and doom that’s written once upon a tomb. –from LAST LAUGHS:…
The Pix Foundation Launches Kickstarter Video Campaign
The Pix Theatre has been a silent reminder of simpler times when movies were an easy way to fantasize about adventures, or cheer you up with a good comedy. For the past 10 years The Pix Foundation has been working hard to renovate and reopen this piece of Downtown Nampa history as a multi-use performing…
Young People's Pavilion 