Archive for March, 2010
Extreme Reader
Welcome to our first Extreme Reader / Extreme Stitcher post where we’ll profile people willing to go to great lengths to read and/or stitch. Meet Extreme Reader Jen Robinson. Take a look at her blog, and you’ll quickly see just how extreme she is. She is a prolific reader and writer, reviewing loads of kids’ [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
And Easter-themed blackwork bookmark from Tam’s Creations. Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul. ~Library at Thebes, inscription over the door Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces [...]
In the Dog-Ear House
Given the content of this post, I want to state up front that this is our first guest blogger for the Challenge. How to break a bad habit and go from shabby to chic. Hi. My name is (name withheld), and I fold down corners — of everything: books, magazines, phone directories, Bibles. Even publications [...]
2010 Bookmark Challenge Begins!
Stitchers, thread your needles! The Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2010 Bookmark Challenge is officially on. To celebrate, we have a video and theme song. Yes, that’s right, a theme song, so turn your computer volume on and invite the kids in to watch and listen. Please feel free to share this video on [...]
Screens for Teens
One of my writing critique partners, Mary Beth Schewitz, was just selected as an “everyday hero” by Real Simple magazine for her work with the Max Schewitz Foundation. Mary Beth lost her seemingly healthy 20-year-old son, Max, to sudden cardiac death (SCD) in 2005. The Foundation that bears his name raises funds for the research [...]
Stitching for Literacy Update
The first bookmark from the Stitching for Literacy Flickr Pool! This is a Teresa Wentzler design stitched by poppyseed53. I hope you’ll post images of the bookmarks you stitch in our Flickr pool. Note that one of the group rules is that posting there gives me permission to re-post your images here. We have two [...]
SLJ BoB Brackets
Okay, here are my predictions for the School Library Journal Battle of the (Kids) Books. Round 1 Charles and Emma Fire The Last Olympian The Lost Conspiracy Marcelo in the Real World A Season of Gifts Sweethearts of Rhythm When You Reach Me Round 2 Fire The Last Olympian A Season of Gifts When You [...]
Share a Story Winners
Original art by Elizabeth O. Dulemba. Winners from the Literacy: Off the Beaten-Path post from the Share a Story, Shape a Future Literacy Blog Tour are Tif and Kristie Please send your mailing addresses to mail [AT] funkandweber [DOT] com ASAP so I can get your Puzzle Bears books in the mail. Thanks to everyone [...]
Weekend Site Seeing
You know how I’m forever saying that picture books should be made for all ages? Well check this out! I can’t wait to see this! Thanks to Fuse #8 for the heads up.
SLJ Battle of the (Kids’) Books
It’s back! School Library Journal’s Battle of the (Kids’) Books–aka BoB–gets underway on Monday, March 15. Sixteen of the best books published in 2009 will go head-to-head, being read and judged by celebrities of KidLit. There will be a match every weekday until one book stands alone on April 5. I’m going to pay close [...]
, by Ellen Ruppel Shell
, by Elizabeth Strout.
