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When You Reach Me Reaches the UK
Rebecca Stead’s wonderful When You Reach Me has just come out in the U.K. and there have been some lovely responses from Philip Ardagh in the Guardian and Bookwitch.
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In the Classroom: A Mural of When You Reach Me
Last year I enjoyed reading When You Reach Me on my own, but it was when I read it aloud to my class that I fell headlong in love with it. For this year’s class I began reading it aloud … Continue reading
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In the Classroom: Reading Aloud When You Reach Me
I can still hear a bunch of my students outside my room packing up to go home, debating and mulling over just what is happening in this remarkable book. I thought I’d be able to finish reading it to them … Continue reading
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When You Reach Me ARC Give-Away Contest
I’ll get to the contest in a second, but first a couple of related things. I’ve not been shy about expressing my enthusiasm for Rebecca Stead’s forthcoming middle-grade novel, When You Reach Me, and so was delighted to see it … Continue reading
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Here and Back Again: Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me
As I read I sneak occasional peeks to see my students’ faces. They are sitting up, tense and alert, wide eyed with open mouths. Once in a while, without taking his or her eyes off of me, one will whisper … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Newbery: This Monday’s Announcements
I was delighted to be in the room where it happened (well, where it was announced) this year in Seattle. I was 2nd in line due to the energy of my roommate, the irrepressible Susannah Richards, who — as she … Continue reading
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Back from the Farthest Reaches of the Globe (More or Less)
I am just back from a fabulous journey to the south, far, far, far south. Patagonia and the Atacama desert, that is. It was an extraordinary trip that I’ve documented on facebook so friend me there if you want to see … Continue reading
Remembering Katrina
Katrina is burned into my brain. It is burned into many of our brains. And now for this tenth anniversary there are many considerations of what happened then, after, and is still happening. For children, there have been books. Quite … Continue reading
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Africa is My Home: Children’s Africana Book Awards Festival This Saturday
On Saturday November 8, 2014, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC will host the 22nd annual Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA). CABA was created by Africa Access and the Outreach Council of the African Studies Association to … Continue reading
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Laurie Anderson and Rebecca Stead Together With Others at the Met?
SPARK: A New Conversation Series Laurie Anderson,performance artist Melanie Holcomb, curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, MMA Rebecca Stead, author SeungJung Kim,art historian, professor at the University of Toronto We think we can measure time only in minutes … Continue reading
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