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On-The-Loose-Dreams Veronica Schwartz, Des Plaines Public Library, IL - 05/09/2008 K-Gr 7–Children’s music doesn’t get much better than these 16 songs by Pomes in a Pail.
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The Mysterious Human Heart Linda M. Teel, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC - 05/08/2008 Gr 5 Up–Each episode in this series provides information through real-life dramas about people with heart conditions and other heart-related problems.
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Father Goose: It's a Bam Bam Diddly! Beverly Bixler, San Antonio Public Library, TX - 05/06/2008 K-Gr 3–Seven joyful songs from several West Indies islands, such as Jamaica, Haiti, and Dominica, are performed with enthusiasm and terrific musicianship.
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Consider the Source: Star Power By Marc Aronson - 05/01/2008
I’ve written books for young readers for more than two decades, and I once ran an imprint that published edgy titles, like Gary Nash’s Forbidden Love (1999), which is about America’s secret history of race relations, and Judd Winick’s Pedro and Me (2000, both Holt), a graphic novel about his roommate on the reality show Real World who later died of AIDS.
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First Steps: Play It Again By Renea Arnold and Nell Colburn - 05/01/2008
A quote from George Bernard Shaw hangs in our office, guiding our daily interactions: “We don’t quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing.” These days, we feel a strong need to defend playtime for children, too. According to Howard Chudacoff, a cultural historian at Brown University, today’s children have less time to play than children of pre...
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Uprising Tricia Melgaard, Centennial Middle School, Broken Arrow, OK - 05/02/2008 Gr 6-8–In this novel (S & S, 2007), Margaret Peterson Haddix steps back in history to present the fascinating story of three very different 15-year-old girls living in New York City in 1910.
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Growing Frogs Teresa Bateman, Brigadoon Elementary School, Federal Way, WA - 05/01/2008 K-Gr 3–The croaking of frogs is one of the great sounds of warmer weather, but environmental concerns threaten the loss of that chorus.
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A Fuse #8 Production Elizabeth Bird, Children's Librarian, Donnell Central Children's Room June 13, 2007 Shh. Don't Say a Word.
Sheesh. I decide a book's one of my favorites of the year and then suddenly I don't ... More
Podcasts are a great way to expand learning beyond the classroom or library. Here are more recommendations from Tech Chicks Anna Adam and Helen Mowers, following up their Dec. 2007 article Listen Up!
K-Gr 7–Children’s music doesn’t get much better than these 16 songs by Pomes in a Pail. What began at a writer’s workshop resulted in an amazing collaboration that combined the clever words of Alexander Jenny and the music of Karena Mendoza and Stephanie Snow.
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