NOT RECOMMENDED: WILD BIRD by Wendelin Van Draanen

This post started out as a "Debbie--have you seen" one but turned into a Not Recommended one pretty quickly... A reader wrote to a...

FIRST LAUGH: WELCOME, BABY! by Rose Ann Tahe

This year, Charlesbridge published First Laugh: Welcome, Baby ! When I learned that Jonathan Nelson (illustrator of the way-cool The Wool of...

I settled in to do some reading last night. I reached for Dallas Hunt's Awâsis and the World Famous Bannock . Amanda Strong's illu...

There are very few books of Native poetry for teachers looking for poems to use with children and young adults. They can, however, get a cop...

You know how some things are so dear that you hold that thing close to your heart and give it a squeeze? Every year, Richard Van Camp create...

Aslan and Kelly Tudor's Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock is a non-fiction photo-essay published by EagleSpeaker Publi...

We are starting AICL's "Best Books of 2018" today (December 7) and will update it as we read other books published in 2018. P...

I haven't done a rigorous study of biographies of US presidents. The ones I have looked at over the years are lacking in one way or anot...

As a grandmother and longtime teacher of young children, I'm delighted to share my enthusiasm for A Day with Yayah, a 2018 Crocod...

Jill Lepore's These Truths: A History of the United States came out this year (2018). Published by W. W. Norton and Company, teachers wi...

Some terrific news today (November 17), from the 2018 conference of the National Council of Teachers of English! Traci Sorell's We Are G...

Some time back, I learned that Daniel José Older was working on a series that would blend history and fantasy. The first book in the series-...