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Books We Read – June

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June 2009 [Books received: 129 ; books read: 52 ] As I mentioned last month, the windfall of books from Book Expo America would be included with the June totals. So 106 of those books are BEA finds; the remainder are unsolicited requests for review. We would like to thank Laycie Clifford and the girls of the Summer Bible Camp,  Effort Baptist Church (Palmyra, VA) for volunteering their time with the Reading Tub as part of a youth ministry project.  Their reviews are included in this list. sidebar: Illustrators play an important role in creating children’s books, and they deserve to be on the byline, too.  Because all that content can make booklists unwieldy, we needed a compromise.  Starting this … Read more →

Books We Read – May

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May 2009 [Books received: 50; books read: 35] I’m a little disappointed we didn’t have much nonfiction this month, but we still found plenty to read. I didn’t return from BookExpo America until June 1, and the boxes of new treasures haven’t arrived … I’ll count them in June. Almost half (20) of this month’s new arrivals are media tie-in titles connected with summer movies. We don’t review them, but they’ll go to readers in need this fall. We do have a few more “previously reviewed” titles. These are not counted in the totals above. We include them because when one of our kids pulls a favorite story from “long ago,” it might help you find the just-right book to connect … Read more →

Author Interview: Debbie Dadey

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Once upon a time, in an elementary school in Kentucky, two elementary school teachers began writing stories. Debbie Dadey, a librarian, and Marcia Thornton Jones, a reading teacher,would spend their lunch time talking about and creating stories. But then, one day … their writing careers converged and took off! Right there in the library! test Debbie and Marcia were having one of those days when the kids were, well, little monsters. Debbie (and Marcia) realized that unless they sprouted horns and grew ten feet, they’d never get the kids’ attention! Hmmm … a teacher who is really a monster … Voila! Vampires Don’t Wear Polka-Dots was born. Debbie Dadey is the author and co-author of more than 125 books, including … Read more →