Psst….you’ve no doubt heard of CliffsNotes. Now there’s “StephsNotes”—with just ten helpful hints, they’re even simpler than the Cliffs original!
StephsNotes to:
JELLICOE ROAD by Melina Marchetta
Dear RR:
You know who you are. You’re the kid librarians and teachers are always trying to find a book for. A book that appeals to the non-reader in you, the Game [...]
Archive for the ‘My Book Shelf’ Category
Jellicoe Road: StephsNotes for the Reluctant Reader
Posted in My Book Shelf on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
An Anthology of Children’s Poetry
Posted in My Book Shelf on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Children’s poems for the uninitiated….
David Macaulay at Tacoma Art Museum
Posted in Check This Out, My Book Shelf on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who are David Macaulay fans (The Way Things Work, Cathedral, Pyramid, Black & White, The Way WE Work) there is a must-see exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum right now. It runs through June 14, 2009 and it’s fantastic. Set up to show the progression of Macaulay’s work from “envelope sketches” [...]
Off My Shelf…
Posted in Check This Out, My Book Shelf on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Arrivals and Inventions: A Two-Book Review
By Stephanie Lile
The Arrival by Shaun Tan. Published in the United States by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., 2007. Copyright 2006.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. Published by Scholastic Press, New York. Copyright 2007.
There is a land somewhere far away from each of us where the [...]
Book Talk: The Wednesday Wars
Posted in My Book Shelf on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Middle-Grade or YA: WHERE’S THE “WAR” IN WEDNESDAY?
by S.T. Lile
“All of my friends were Irish Catholic or Jewish, and there were some years I was the only Protestant kid in the entire class,” says Gary Schmidt in an article posted on the Calvin College website. He’s an English professor there with a particular interest in investigating [...]
