'Reading' Category
Weekend Book Quotes
Thea (MIL) reading to Mike (DH). If you have a parent/child reading picture you’re willing to share, please send it to jen [AT] funkandweber [DOT] com. You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be – I had a mother who read to me. [...]
Barb’s Reading Roundup
Guess what! Stitching for Literacy has two children’s book professionals guest-blogging during the 2010 Bookmark Challenge. They’ve chosen some of their favorite books to share with us. Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem Written by Mac Barnett Illustrated by Adam Rex Billy Twitters’ parents threaten a singularly unusual punishment when he doesn’t clean his [...]
Extreme Reader
Welcome to our Extreme Reader / Extreme Stitcher series where we profile people willing to go to great lengths to read and/or stitch. Meet Kat Rocha: There are a few authors I will pre-order or try to buy the day a new bookcomes out. In the middle of the Harry Potter craze, J. K. Rowling [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
A bookmark by Bev. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~Francis Bacon What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish, “The Premise of Meaning,” American Scholar, 5 June [...]
Suzy’s Reading Roundup
Guess what! Stitching for Literacy has two children’s book professionals guest-blogging during the 2010 Bookmark Challenge. They’ve chosen some of their favorite books to share with us. The Quiet Book Written by Deborah Underwood Illustrated by Renata Liwska “Making a wish quiet.” “Top of the roller coaster quiet.” Underwood’s extraordinary picture book illuminates all types [...]
Extreme Reader
Welcome to our Extreme Reader / Extreme Stitcher series where we profile people willing to go to great lengths to read and/or stitch. Meet Chrissie Pollock: When I was a child, my parents were forever telling me to hurry up in the bathroom. It wasn’t for the normal reasons. No, I was taking a long [...]
Weekend Book Quotes
This is one of six complimentary bookmark patterns from Pine Glen Designs. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. ~Henry Ward Beecher I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the [...]
SLJ BOB results
Remember the SLJ Battle of the Kids’ Books? My Internet access has been so limited that I was unable to follow and report on the event as I would have liked, but a friend shared a thing or two along the way, and the World Wide Web is generously holding all the competition posts for [...]
The Needlework Show
Operation TBD is today! On your mark. Get set. Drop! When you’re finishing dropping a book or two or twenty, reward yourself with an hour or two or twenty of browsing The Needlework Show. It opens today. This is the online wholesale trade show that anyone can view. If you see something you just have [...]
Operation TBD
In case you haven’t been paying attention to the widget in the sidebar, the readergirlz Operation TBD is tomorrow! On April 15, publishers, YA authors, teen readers, and regular Jo’s like you and me will perpetrate random acts of reading kindness by leaving YA books in public places where teens can find them, pick them [...]
