Young Adult to Picture Books: Reading Tub Bookmarks February

Three books stood out for Reading Tub readers and reviewers this month: Carlyn Beccia’s award-winning book I Feel Better With a Frog in My Throat; Jim Arnosky’s Thunder Birds, and The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan. See Reading Tub mini reviews. Continue reading

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Readers Rejoice: CYBILS Winners Announced

Happy Valentine’s Day … okay. Now that the formality is out of the way, let’s party … CYBILS style!! This morning over on the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards (CYBILs) Website, Anne announced the 2011-2012 winners. Two rounds … Continue reading

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Books We Read – November 2011

This is one in a series of posts pre-scheduled before I took the Reading Tub on hiatus. We will be back in 2012. Happy Holidays, y’all. We hope you had some time to enjoy great company – in person or … Continue reading

Books We Read – October 2011

Welcome to November … where the heck did October go? We have fallen off the review wagon and now have received more books than we’ve completed. My goal is to finish a bunch before the pile of to-be-reviewed books topples … Continue reading

Books We Read – September 2011

Yeah! The trips to the school library have resumed! Remember last month when I said that the earthquake became a point of reading interest? Well the 1-2-punch of the earthquake and Hurricane Irene pushed research into another weather phenomena: tornadoes! … Continue reading