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>We had candy AND cake in the office today
December 22, 2009 By 1 Comment
>WWMMD?
September 11, 2009 By 54 Comments
>Reading aloud and alone
September 10, 2009 By 13 Comments
>Twitter is atwitter with responses to Richard Peck’s remark in Notes that “over and over [kids are]telling me that the books I wrote for them to read are being read to them by their teachers. And hearing a story read doesn’t seem to expand their vocabularies. If a teacher is going to take limited classroom [...]
>The Twits
June 12, 2009 By 10 Comments
>I’m currently experimenting with Twitter as @Hornbook. Have already been asked by one user if our site is “SFW,” given our salacious name, I suppose. If you’re on there, say hello. In between twats I and the other Mag editors have been beavering away at the September special issue, theme song “Trouble.” It’s gonna be [...]
>I’m a little stunned myself.
May 14, 2009 By 9 Comments
>From a press release I received this morning: When Margaret Benedict, former educator and author, taught her social studies curriculum she required her students to read eight biographies a year. She was stunned when she found out that no biography of Joyce Clyde Hall existed. With determination to reveal the true entrepreneur that Hall was, [...]
>I felt like The Wicked Child
April 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
>at the Seder last night, but, being a good goyische guest, I kept my smarty-pants moyl shut when someone talked about the inspiring “true” story about the quilts that mapped the way to the North for enslaved African Americans before the Civil War. It’s a nice idea but, “Escaping tonight? Oh, let me sew you [...]
>Somebody really didn’t think this through.
March 27, 2009 By 10 Comments
>I can’t quite put my finger on it.
January 22, 2009 By 40 Comments
>PW has announced its (casually) bookseller-chosen Cuffie Awards, with Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury’s Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes as the picture book pick. It is a big favorite here, too, getting a starred review and a spot on our Fanfare 2009 list. Every parent I know loves it, and the text and [...]
>Support your local superstore!
November 29, 2008 By 13 Comments
