Love the Summer

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is given to an American publisher.  The book recognized is originally published in a foregin language in a f...

The Hans Christian Anderson Award is the most prestigious award given for international children's literature.  The award is given to an...

One Crazy Summer has been honored with numerous awards - it was a Newbery Honor recepient, a Coretta Scott King winner, and the Scott O...

Something Beautiful is about a little girl that lives in the projects and doesn't have too many things in her life that most people w...

The Star Maker tells the story of Artie, a young Chinese American boy growing up in San Francisco during the early 1950s.  The narrator r...

     Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack is a book  that I love to use when discussing segregation with students.  The st...

My daughter and I saw Mr. Popper's Penguins last night.  Let's just say that I was pleasantly surprised.  The movie was really cute...