Category: folk & fairy tales

• No, really, let kids choose what they read

  

  In case you need something to tide you over while you wait for your copy of Reading Unbound to arrive, here are some more quotes about why we need to let kids choose what they read. We want to help our students fall in love with books in ways that foster a life-long devotion to…

  Miss Julie

  July 16, 2016

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• Why Kids Need to Read What They Want

  

  In the most recent edition of Cover to Cover by K.T. Horning, there are no early childhood, middle grade, or ya distinctions in books for children. Encompassing fiction and nonfiction, the breakdown is: Picture books (including board books) Readers/Beginning Readers/Easy Readers Transitional books Chapter books That’s it. We have those formats, and within those formats, every genre is…

  Miss Julie

  July 14, 2016

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, books, early literacy, easy readers, families, fantasy, folk & fairy tales, graphic, historical fiction, kidlit, kids, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, literacy, marketing, middle grade, nonfiction, OPINIONS!, personal experience, picture books, professional development, random, reader's advisory, reading, reading programs, school libraries, schools, scifi, summer reading, ya lit

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• Programming for Preschoolers: Take a Tip from Preschool Centers

  When I was still teaching preschool (oh how I love to talk about when I taught preschool) one of the early literacy tactics we employed was to integrate literature and literacy skills into every center. This meant having books with building themes in the block center, books about nature in the science center, having pads…

  Miss Julie

  January 19, 2014

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• author, author!

  The past couple of conferences I went to, there was some chatter about author visits at libraries—namely, how do you get anyone to care about and come to your author event? (I’m assuming here you’ve found the money already. Top notch authors are almost always going to be quite expensive, so start budgeting now and…

  Miss Julie

  December 3, 2013

  authors, awesomeness, be the best you can be, books, cake, events, folk & fairy tales, kidlit, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries-everywhere, marketing, outreach, personal experience, programming, school libraries, schools, teens, ya lit

  author visit, middle school

• Uncommonly Good Books (and more!) for Common Core Instruction

  uncommonbooks (pdf of slide show)November 1st, ISLMA Conference 2013, Springfield, IL Hi ISLMA friends! I’ll be updating this post during the upcoming week, adding annotations and the new resources I added for the second chance presentation. Thanks so much for coming, and if there’s anything you’d like to add please leave a comment! Here is…

  Miss Julie

  October 31, 2013

  be the best you can be, conferences, folk & fairy tales, J fiction, kidlit, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, nonfiction, picture books, professional development, reading, reviews, school libraries, scifi

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• Making Common Core Commonplace: On the Front Lines 2013

  Hi OTFL friends! Thank you so much for attending my presentation, and for the great conversation. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me if you want to talk more– I’d love to help. Just a note–this post will be living organism over the next few weeks, so don’t fret– more information will be…

  Miss Julie

  August 6, 2013

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• Eat or Be Eaten: A Disturbing Storytime for the Older Child

  I’m reading aloud to a group of fifth graders soon, and I knew I wanted to start off with one of my sure fire hits, Gobble Gobble Slip Slop by Meilo So. I’ve read this book with all ages and the repetition, gross out factor, and beautiful illustrations win everyone over. The fat, greedy cat…

  Miss Julie

  September 27, 2012

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• for you, a Thanksgiving Casserole of Randomness

  So, here’s a bunch of disjointed notes with very little context from a small notebook I found again recently. I think most of them are from the Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough that I attended in 2008? or 2009? Enjoy! Coffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Kids doing rubic’s cubes Irish–Pat Latin–Mendoza Makes me a Leprecano Y’all hush now, it’s Doug…

  Miss Julie

  November 21, 2011

  folk & fairy tales, personal experience, random, stories, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness

• picture book-a-loo

  I’ve had a pile of picture books that I’ve been meaning to talk about, so here we go, in no particular order: A Wild Father’s Day by Sean Callahan Inspired by a card that reads “Have a Wild Father’s Day,” the dad and two kids in this book act like various animals–running like cheetahs, swimming…

  Miss Julie

  October 29, 2011

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• backlist beauties: One for the Morning Glory

  One for the Morning Glory by John Barnes. It was 1996 or 1997  and I was in the Hallmark Waldenbooks in Clinton, Ia, with my mother and most likely my sister. Even though our small family farm never brought in a sizeable or steady income, one thing my mother always allowed us to buy was…

  Miss Julie

  May 11, 2010

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