I want to thank all of you for participating in the giveaway for two copies of Raising Bookworms: Getting Your Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment by Emma Walton Hamilton. I especially want to thank those who posted about literacy on their blogs, and let me know so that I could read their blogs and …
A B C D E F G… If you know your ABCs, perhaps you’d like to join me in April in the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Beginning April 1st, hundreds of people will be blogging daily all that month (except for Sundays after the 1st) using the letters of the alphabet as springboards for …
Do You Know your A B Cs? A to Z Blogging Challenge is coming up! Read More »
I am delighted that three people responded to my challenge to blog about literacy. Not only did that earn them an extra entry in my giveaway of Emma Walton Hamilton’s book Raising Bookworms, but it reached more people with an important message. One person posted (different posts) on both her blogs! I want to give …
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A wonderful way to encourage children’s enjoyment of reading and being read to is to share poetry with them from an early age. My mother and I loved to recite poetry to and with each other, and we shared poetry together until her last days. In the last couple of years of her life, …
Julie Andrews Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies Read More »
It’s all very well for me to sit here and say, “Get your kids to enjoy reading!” “Reading is important!” “Make reading a joyful experience!” I can hear you all the way from wherever you’re sitting saying, “But HOW?” It would be nice if it was as simple as making sure kids have access to …
And the winner of the giveaway for one copy of Waiting for No One by Beverley Brenna is… (drumroll please)… Lucky Number 13, Julie Hedlund! Congratulations, Julie! Please contact me through the contact form on this blog with your mailing address, and I’ll send the book out to you as soon as possible. For those …
Great song, sung by a man named Piers Cawley, in support of libraries — “don’t say we can’t afford it anymore”… What would we do without libraries? Is there still a place for them in our digital society? Listen, sing along, support your local library!
I am delighted to announce that my cousin Beverley Brenna‘s YA novel about a girl with Asperger’s Syndrome, Waiting for No One, has won the Dolly Gray Children’s Literature award for 2012 along with one other intermediate/YA novel and two picture books. To learn more about Bev’s book, to learn about the award itself, …
