Archive for April, 2009
Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? Everything Beautiful, by Simmone Howell. While this book isn’t especially my cup o’ chai, there are aspects about it I particularly like. I like that the main character is supposed to be fat, but I’m bothered by the clearly not-fat girl on the cover. (Did the publisher chicken out?) I like [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
This bookmark-finishing style will be discussed in the May Needlework Nutshell. Subscription box in the sidebar. Why, yes, they do come in other colors. A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike. –Thomas Kempis Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the [...]
Operation T*B*D
I decided a long time ago that I need to be wealthy so I can hide stashes of money all over the world for random strangers to find. Though my prospects for becoming wealthy are…let’s just say not good, okay?…dropping a couple of bookmark-studded YA novels satisfies the crazy-old-lady dream at least a little. We [...]
SLJ’s Battle of the Books
This bookmark-finishing style will be discussed in the May Needlework Nutshell. Subscription box in the sidebar. Are you sick of seeing this message? Thanks to Monday’s Children’s Literacy and Reading News Round Up over at Scrub-a-Dub-Tub, I’ve discovered a Battle of the Books competition at one of the School Library Journal blogs. Clicking on that [...]
To Do List
This bookmark-finishing style will be discussed in the May Needlework Nutshell. Subscription box in the sidebar. Today I’m headed to our local Glacierview school to talk with third through fifth graders about The Puzzling Life of One Author. Promoting literacy through puzzles–yippee! We’re going to make a puzzle from scratch. I’m not going to walk [...]
National Poetry Month
Reading up a storm. This bookmark-finishing style will be discussed in the May Needlework Nutshell. Subscription box in the sidebar. April is National Poetry Month. This month-long celebration was established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. The Academy hosts a Web site, poets.org, loaded with resources for reading, writing, sharing, and enjoying poetry. [...]
Literacy and Puzzles
Over the weekend I received contributor’s copies of the Sports Illustrated for Kids 2009 Year in Sports and Alaska’s Puzzle Bears. When we discuss ways to instill a love of reading in kids, one of the recommendations is to give kids freedom to choose what they want to read. Graphic novels, comic books, Captain Underpants, [...]
Reading Roundup
What’s on my nightstand? The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon. Connections! Last week I finished Al Capone Does My Shirts which featured a boy with an autistic sister. This week’s read is about an autistic boy. Christopher is 15. He knows “all the countries of the world and their [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
This bookmark is two-sided. I stitched the same design (more or less) twice and stitched them back-to-back with a blanket stitch through the blanket stitches. A good library is a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. –Samuel Niger I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness [...]
The Needlework Show
It’s almost here. The Needlework Show opens next week, on April 15. The Needlework Show is an online trade show. Like the wholesale trade shows organized by The National NeedleArts Association, only retailers can make purchases. Unlike other wholesale trade shows, consumers can browse and participate in various drawings and games, including the now traditional [...]
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
