Happy New Year! Cybils Award Finalists Announced

Customize a free digital greeting card   First, before I take one more step in announcing the Cybils Award Finalists for the Easy Reader and Early / Short Illustrated Chapter Book categories, I’d like to thank my awesome panel for all their hard work … Jeff Barger - NC Teacher Stuff Katie Fitzgerald - Secrets & Sharing Soda / @sharingsoda Mandy Goldfuss - A Lovely Bookshelf on the Wall Teri Lesesne - Professor Nana and LS5385 / @professornana Colby Sharp - sharpread and Nerdy Book Club / @colbysharp and @nerdybookclub Amanda Snow - A Patchwork of Books  / @ApatchworkofBks Katherine Sokolowski - Read, Write, Reflect / @katsok They read 85 books in the Easy Reader and Early / Short Illustrated Chapter groups and through it all were guided by their passions for emerging and developing readers. Not once did their hearts stray … Read more

Illustrated Chapter Books & Adventure – Bookmarks for November

Bookmarks posts spotlight the favorite titles, as read and reviewed by Reading Tub families. In November, most of the books were chapter books for transitional readers, also known as newly independent readers. Read more

Literacy Lalapalooza #2 – Gifts & Tips December

Family literacy as easy as 1-2-3. The Reading Tub’s Literacy Lalapalooze has non-book ideas to build into your family time and three book recommendations, too. Read more