'Needle and ThREAD' Category
Guest Blogger: Kat Rocha
Everyone, meet Kat Rocha. Kat, this is Everyone. Sorry, no pics of a cat close at hand, so here’s Cat’s-Best-Friend. Or something.
Kat is a needlework designer and owner of Cross Eyed Kat. She’s designing a bookmark for the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program next year. (Right, Kat?) No, really, I think it’s already […]Weekend Book Quotes
What’s on my mp3 player? The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. –Daniel J. Boorstein
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. –Elizabeth Drew
One […]Weekend Book Quotes
What’s on my nightstand? Archer’s Quest, by Linda Sue Park.
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. –Thomas Carlyle
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it […]Read Aloud America Book List 2008
Does reading aloud to children really make a difference in how well they do in school?
Yes!According to the Children’s Literacy Initiative, “education experts agree that reading aloud at home is the single most important activity parents can do to help their children develop as readers … and that KIDS WHO READ SUCCEED.”
We tend to associate […]Bookmark Challenge Updates
Janet from The Cross Stitch Station in Miami, FL, reports that Royal Palm Chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild has taken up the Bookmark Challenge. Members are stitching bookmarks to add to the collection at The Cross Stitch Station. Thank you, Royal Palm guild members!
From the Anchorage, AK, Bookmark Make-It-Take-It, April 13, 2008.
Kendra from The […]Singing Praises of Books
The best way to share both needlework and reading with others, especially kids, is to enjoy the activities yourself. Joy is contagious.
Working as a summer camp counselor with a bunk of eight 4-year-old boys, I read a lot of picture books. One evening, after the boys had showered, eaten snack, brushed teeth, and reviewed the […]Children’s Choice Book Awards
Children’s Book Week poster by Mary GrandPre.
I read a lot of kids’ books, from picture books to chapter books to middle grade and young adult novels. Mike claims that I became a children’s writer so I’d have an excuse to read kids’ books–as if I’d need such an excuse.
I keep a list of Recommended […]Guest Blogger: Lynne Nicoletti
For many years now I’ve been engaged in an addictive, though deeply satisfying, affair. As with most relationships, this one has seen me through many troubles and even caused a few. Sometimes, it’s created a distance between myself and the rest of my family. Other times, it’s allowed me to better understand and appreciate my […]
Weekend Book Quotes
What’s on my mp3 player? Antarctica on a Plate, by Alexa Thomson.
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes […]Weekend Book Quotes
What’s on my nightstand? Bread and Roses, Too, by Katherine Paterson. If you forced me to name a single favorite children’s author, I just might say Katherine Paterson. I’ve read many of her books, and I’ve loved every single one; there’s not a stinker or even a weak one in the bunch.
What we become depends […]
