Archive for 2012
Once upon at time books with black children at their center were seldom published.
January 31, 2012
In the spirit of Black History Month which happens in February, lets celebrate an achievement which we could easily take for granted today. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Erza Jack Keat’s Caldecott winner The Snowy Day, the first full-color picture book to feature an African-American protagonist. The story captures Peter’s wonderment of a […]
Accolades to the authors of the 2012 Newbery and Caldecott award winners.
January 29, 2012
Chris Raschka’s A Ball for Daisy, a wordless picture book, wins the 2012 Caldecott Award, In Raschka’s own words: “I was thinking how about how loss comes into young lives, and how we try to deal with that somehow.” This book is Mr. Raschka’s first wordless picture book, something he wanted to try “so that […]
Commemorate Lewis Carroll’s Birthday and do as he suggests: “I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
January 27, 2012
Reading encourages us to be creative, innovative, ingenious, imaginative, & curious, qualities we need in abundance if we want to lead interesting lives. I agree with Elearnor Roosevelt who said: I think at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy god mother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift […]
Diane will be in Cleveland, January 31, 2012
January 23, 2012
LITERACY, LEARNING & LIVING THROUGH JEWISH EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Kung Hei Fat Choy ~Chinese New Year 2012~ The Year of the Dragon.
January 23, 2012
Celebrate the Year of the Dragon by reading some of my favorite stories which feature unlikely dragons—the best kind of dragons in “my book” and other stories that take you inside the Chinese Culture. The recommendations are terrific read aloud to children of various ages. As Walter Dean Myers, our current national ambassador for young […]
