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Naomi Shihab Nye: Young People’s Poet Laureate

By Megan Willome 7 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye

Author Megan Willome takes a trip to the library with Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye. Refreshments will be served.

Filed Under: Childhood Poems, children, Children's Activities, Children's Authors, Children's Poetry, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: “Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!”

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!

Author Megan Willome gets serious about some silly dinosaurs in an opposites book by Sandra Boynton for this month’s Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: children, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: “Blueberries for Sal”

By Megan Willome 11 Comments

Author Megan Willome and her mother and Little Sal and her mother and Little Bear and his mother get mixed up among the blueberries in this month’s Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: book reviews, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, nature

Reader, Come Home: Harry Potter and Lectio Divina

By Megan Willome 12 Comments

lectio divina

Come learn the secrets of deep reading with author Megan Willome and combine lectio divina with Harry Potter. And share your June pages for our monthly Reader, Come Home column.

Filed Under: book reviews, Children's Authors, Reader Come Home

By Heart: “The Star” + New “Kindness” Challenge

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

Lil Wayne

Join author Megan Willome as she learns Jane Taylor’s “The Star” By Heart and gets a little twinkly. Lil Wayne sings along.

Filed Under: Blog, By Heart, Children's Authors, Children's Poetry, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: “Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees”

By Megan Willome 7 Comments

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai loved people an the world by planting trees. Join author Megan Willome for a Children’s Book Club discussion.

Filed Under: book reviews, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, nature

Children’s Book Club: “Dear Mr. Henshaw”

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Beverly Cleary

If Leigh Botts can become a writer, so can you. Join author Megan Willome as we read Beverly Cleary’s ‘Dear Mr. Henshaw’ for the Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: ‘The Crossover’

By Megan Willome 8 Comments

Chicago skyline

Tis the season for basketball! Join us for a Children’s Book Club discussion of Kwame Alexander’s novel told through poems, ‘The Crossover.’

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, book reviews, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Poetry

A Story in Every Soul: Bedtime Stories

By Megan Willome 14 Comments

When we read a bedtime story to a child, something happens in their soul. What exactly? Well, it depends on the story.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, children, Children's Authors

Children’s Book Club: “Brown Girl Dreaming”

By Megan Willome 17 Comments

Jacqueline Woodson

How does one become a writer? Join us for a Children’s Book Club discussion of ‘Brown Girl Dreaming’ by Jacqueline Woodson.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, book club, Childhood Poems, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club

The Problem with Laura Ingalls Wilder: part 2, Half-Pint

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

There is a problem with Laura Ingalls Wilder, nicknamed Half-Pint. It’s the reason readers love her, despite the questions about some of Wilder’s cultural perspectives.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories

The Problem with Laura Ingalls Wilder: part 1, Legacy

By Megan Willome 21 Comments

Why was the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award renamed the Children’s Literature Legacy Award? It has to do with being eight years old.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: “Two Friends, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass”

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

Drink tea, change the world. Join us for a Children’s Book Club discussion of ‘Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass’ by Dean Robbins, illustrated by Sean Qualls & Selina Alko.

Filed Under: Afternoon Tea, Black History Month, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, Friendship Project

Children’s Book Club: “May I Bring A Friend?”

By Megan Willome 5 Comments

What happens when you bring a seal to Apple Pie Day? Join us for a Children’s Book Club discussion of ‘May I Bring A Friend?’ by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers, illustrated by Beni Montresor.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, On Friendship

Fear is a Luxury You Can’t Afford: Just Make Art

By Megan Willome 14 Comments

Are you engaging in the luxury of fear? Take a cue from illustrator Susie Jaramillo, and learn the secrets to making art despite the self-doubt that picks at your artistic heart.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, children, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Interview

Happy Birthday, Reading in the Wild!

By Megan Willome 19 Comments

Help us say Happy Birthday to Reading in the Wild, our monthly reading roundup with Megan Willome as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Literacy for Life, Reading in the Wild

Bring in the Cupcakes! It’s Take Your Poet to School Week

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Poet in a Cupcake Day Cover

It’s Take Your Poet to School Week! Celebrate with themes such as Talk Like a Poet Day, Poet in Your Math Book Day, and of course, sweetest of all, our new public day: Poet in a Cupcake Day!

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Poetry, poetry teaching resources, Take Your Poet to School Week

Take Your Poet to School: Robert Louis Stevenson

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Robert Louis Stevenson cover

Don’t let the folks with briefcases have all the fun. Join in the brand new celebration of Take Your Poet to School Week with our fun cut ‘n color poets on a stick.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, poetry, Take Your Poet to School Week

Teach It: How to Avoid the Tragedy of Becoming “Only One Thing”

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

Let’s play The Excuse Me Game to avoid the tragedy of becoming “only one thing” and losing ourselves and our possibilities due to a failure of imagination.

Filed Under: Blog, Book Love, Children's Activities, Children's Authors, Games, Literacy for Life

Reading in the Wild: January’s Pages

By Megan Willome 21 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your January pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her January good reads.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Classic Books, Classic Poetry, Epic Poetry, Fairytales, Literacy for Life, Poems, Reading and Books, Reading in the Wild, Tolkien

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