April 2017
Review The Top Ten Picture Books and Early Readers for the Elementary Classroom (and Beyond) As a pre-K–5th grade librarian, I get asked all the time, “What [...] Review The Top Nine Middle Grade Books from 2016 (Plus One from 2015) Maya Angelou once said, “Any book that helps a child to form [...] Review This year I read many excellent adolescent and young adult books. Many [...] Review Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain Meet Maya. Susan Cain describes Maya as the “redhead with a ponytail, [...] Review Does the Reformation Still Matter? by Karin Maag Imagine you are at a teacher’s workshop. You introduce yourself to the [...] Review There and Back: Living & Learning Abroad by Donald G. De Graaf Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges— [...] Day in the Life Day: Thursday My mission, should I choose to accept it: In my [...] Back Page How-To Books That Don’t Exist, But Should How to Run a Meeting with Twenty-Five or More Agenda Items [...] Slouching Toward Bedlam Gord Winkle was well into his third jelly doughnut, his mustache vibrant [...]