Christine Scholma and Bill Boerman-Cornell Teachers face increasingly difficult challenges when they make choices about children’s and young adult texts to use […]
The ideas in this article spring from three important identities I carry in my heart: reader, teacher, and child in the family […]
Every year, the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), announces which literary works […]
by Luciano Cid, EdD If you have been an elementary teacher for a substantial period of time, chances are you have heard […]
“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books […]
About a year ago, Cedarville University, a Baptist school in Ohio, enacted a new curriculum standard based on Philippians 4:8: “Finally, brothers […]
This year I read a lot of young adult fiction, and I was struck by how much these books engaged social justice […]
by Heather Altena and Eleanor Tiemens Ah, newly independent readers. First through third graders are an intoxicating mix of excitement and intransigence […]
Picture books are powerful tools for children to start understanding the world around them. Authors and illustrators of picture books covered a […]
This year I read many excellent adolescent and young adult books. Many of these books have a common theme: they take readers […]