Florida Offers Online Schools for Fulltime K-8 Students By SLJ Staff - 11/16/2008
Starting next fall, thousands of Florida students will be able to roll out of bed and attend school in their very own homes as a result of a new law that requires every school district in the state to set up an online school for fulltime kids in grades K-8. More
Sing, Write, Love: Sarah Weeks talks about her hilarious new picture book, 'Woof: A Love Story' By Rick Margolis - 02/01/2010
You started out as a singer-songwriter, right? Yeah. I studied songwriting and composition at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Then I came to New York, figuring if I was going to be a songwriter I had to be on one of the coasts. My being a children's author was a completely serendipitous thing. What happened? One of my sons had separation anxiety when he went to nursery school.
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Katherine the Great: There couldn't be a better choice for our new kids' book ambassador than Katherine Paterson By Kathleen T. Horning - 02/01/2010
Mere days before the announcement of the new children’s book ambassador, speculation was still running wild. Who would they tap for the prestigious two-year position? And, even more to the point, who could possibly measure up to the very capable Jon Scieszka, the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, whose humor and flair would surely be a tough act to follow? As ...
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The Future of Reading: Don't worry. It might be better than you think. By John Green - 01/01/2010
Earlier this year, several nerdfighters¹ sent me a link to the Web site ThisIsNotTom.com, which features a picture of a man, seated, wearing only a bathrobe. At the bottom of the page is written, “The quck brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” The “i” is missing from that sentence; click on the eye of the guy in the photograph, and you are taken to another riddle; sol...
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A Date with Destiny: First-time author Rachel Ward talks about 'Numbers,' her new thriller By Rick Margolis - 01/01/2010
Jem has a disturbing secret: whenever she looks into people’s eyes, she sees the exact date of their death. Moments before a terrorist attack, she realizes that many of the bystanders are about to die. But when she and her classmate Spider flee the scene, they’re suspected of being part of the plot.
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The Greatest Story Never Told: An interview with National Book Award winner Phillip Hoose By Marc Aronson - 01/01/2010
Talk about chutzpah. It took Phillip Hoose four years to track down Claudette Colvin, but it was worth the wait. Last November, Hoose’s Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, the true story of a teen who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL, in 1955, won the National Book Award for young people’s literature.
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On Our Best Behavior: How do you whittle 13,000 books down to 54 titles? By Brian Kenney, Editor-in-Chief - 12/01/2009
Over the next few months, you’ll be awash in lists of books: best books, recommended books, top-10 books, notable books, and more. Creating book lists would seem to be innate to librarianship. On the one hand, it’s fun—all those debates about why a book should (or shouldn’t) be on a given list.
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Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog Jonathan Hunt, Librarian and teacher, Modesto City Schools January 30, 2010 Signing Off
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2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o
Rockin’, Rollin’ and Ridin’ with Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck. CD. 23 min. Prod. by Big Truck Music. Dist. by CDBaby.com. 2009. $8.99.
Gr 1-5–A veteran of Noggin Channel and PBS Kids, Frezza created these eight exceptional rock ‘n roll songs for elementary grade children who are too old for Raffi, but not old enough for adult pop music.
Friends and colleagues of the late Effie Lee Morris may enjoy this photo of the children's librarian, which Nicholas Glass, founder and executive director of Teachingbooks.net, recently found on his computer. It was taken at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, and features (from left) Ashley Bryan, Christopher Myers, and Morris, also an advocate for children's literature and library service to youngsters with impaired vision, who died of cancer on November 10, 2009.
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Rockin’, Rollin’ and Ridin’ with Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck. CD. 23 min. Prod. by Big Truck Music. Dist. by CDBaby.com. 2009. $8.99. 
