Football and soccer. Sunshine. Wife and children. Teaching. These are the things that keep me from becoming eerily similar to Elizabeth Brow...

Owen by Kevin Henkes is for everyone who has their own Fuzzy. Owen's is a yellow blanket that, despite becoming not-so-Fuzzy over time...

There are a number of things in life that are difficult. Earning straight A's. Learning an instrument. Being nice to your little brother...

I love kids like Rabbit. It's silent reading time in the classroom. These students get so absorbed in their book that they attempt to ge...

Otto likes Orange. It's bold and strong and without it the world would be boring. So sayeth Otto the cat. As he's celebrating all th...

Every bookstore in Boston has at least one copy of every book featuring Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, the Boston Tea Party, and about a gazilli...

First and foremost, let’s get this straight. Hacking does not mean strictly computers. Sure, computers might be involved, but this isn’t a u...

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard are looking for a comfortable place to start their family. A place with no foxes or turtles, as Mrs. Mallard reminds he...

Isn't this just the way it goes? The school year ends, summer vacation begins, and suddenly I have no time to update the website. Does t...

It's sometimes easy to get bogged down with the critical analysis of literature (or something to that effect), and miss that fact that a...

In the second adventure of the Mysterious Benedict Society, Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance find themselves world travelers. They also j...

James and Eamon are heading to Nature Camp. Woo-Hoo!!! Nature Camp!!! And they get to stay with Bill and Pam, Eamon's grandparents, who ...

So how do wolves learn all that stuff about being big and bad? What about the huffing and puffing and dressing in grandmother’s clothes? Why...

Otters have moved in. Next door. Right next door. Like…neighbors! Otters!!! What’s a poor rabbit to do? All Mr. Rabbit wants is to doo-dee-d...

This is an activity I did when I taught two sections of sixth grade reading, but it could be done by splitting one class into two groups. On...

Dirk Tyrone awakes groggily, unable to recognize where he is, knowing only that he's bound and unable to move. He's also unable to c...

Billy is a worrier. He has typical worries like clouds and rain. He has atypical worries like hats and shoes. He has an active imagination t...

The Giver – Certainly the most well known of the three titles, this Newbery Medal winner tells the story of Jonas and his community. Jona...

Hunky Dory is a model student. She can "make flowers droop like wet spaghetti" and "thunder rumble like a whale's bellyac...

Queen Olympia was last seen falling into the river beside Beaurivage Castle just before the wedding of Marigold and Christian. She was last ...

When the opening page says, “Chowder had always been different,” and features a bulldog on a toilet, well, you know you got yourself a … wel...

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street picks up the family’s story three weeks into the school year following the eventful Penderwick family vaca...

Like Not a Box , the first picture book by Antoinette Portis, Not a Stick celebrates the creativity of kids. Or in this case, a pig. This l...

Blue Balliet has successfully drawn me into three different art topics about which I would have said I had no interest. None. Chasing Vermee...