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Cindy: I collect rocks everywhere I travel (a habit from my grandmother) and I am partial to ones with holes in them, but this collection in If Rocks Could Sing: A Discovered Alphabet (Tricycle Press 2011) really ROCKS. Instead of collecting seashells on her Florida beaches, McGuirk slowly built an alphabet collection of rocks A-Z. [...]

Lynn: “There are many kinds of quiet.  First one awake quiet.  Jelly side down quiet.” Deborah Underwood’s enchanting new picture book, The Quiet Book (Houghton 2010), begs to be read in a whisper as each page depicts a different kind of quiet.  Renata Liwska’s soft-tone pencil drawings of cuddly critters reflect the hushed tone perfectly.  [...]

Cindy: Did your mother warn you that you could harm your eyes by reading in the dark? Or that if you crossed your eyes they would stay that way? Lynn found this great informational book series from Lerner called Is That a Fact? that challenges these and other burning burning questions. We read Does an [...]

Cindy and Lynn: You may have already seen this fun, inspiring middle school reading video, but if not, check out what Ocoee Middle School in Orange County Florida did to celebrate reading. 1600 students and staff, holding books, dancing and singing to a remake of the Black Eyed Peas song, “I Gotta Feeling.” Using the [...]