For Beginners: ALA Geisel Award Winners
The Theodore Seuss Geisel Medal (featuring a bas-relief of Dr. Seuss himself) is given by the American Library Association every year for outstanding books for beginning readers. They’re usually clever and engaging and loads more fun than Dick and Jane. Here are the picks for this year: Up! Tall! and High! by Ethan Long. Putnam,…
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Wholehearted Romance: Living Book Library Picks
Many of you may remember our interview last fall with Liz and Emily, proprietors of the Living Books Library website. They were kind enough to do a Christmas list for us a few months ago, and it was so popular that we thought we’d tap them for some classic Valentine’s Day recommendations for the young…
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Web Newberys and News (Feb. 4, 2013)
Hope you guys survived the Super Bowl! It’s a new month, and we’re looking forward to some great new books at Redeemedreader. Leading up to Valentine’s Day, we have some very fun guests to help us think through the idea of virtuous romance, and we’ll get lots of ideas of classic, recent, and movie versions…
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Unseduced and Unshaken: An Interview w/ Rosalie De Rosset
AN INTRODUCTION Last week, we ran a book giveaway of this book, Unseduced and Unshaken: The Place of Dignity in a Young Woman’s Choices by Dr. Rosalie De Rosset. I felt it was particularly noteworthy for our readers, considering both the author’s background and the use of classic literature as a kind of moral capital…
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The 2013 ALA Youth Media Awards: It’s the Bomb!
Only total kidlit geeks would do this: click the live webcast link on the American Library Association website and watch an hour of book geeks (I say that nicely, patient being one myself) announcing the winners of their Youth Media awards, while their peers clap, gasp, whistle, and cheer. Only a tiny slice of the…
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Valentine Books for Little Ones
VALENTINE’S DAY PRESENTS With Valentine’s Day creeping up on us, I thought I’d throw out a few of my favorite Valentine books for the little ones. These are books that I think parents and grandparents could really enjoy reading a loud, and maybe pair with a few chocolate hearts to sweeten V-day for everyone. 1)…
Read MoreContest Winners
CONTEST WINNERS Last week, we put three books up for grabs. After giving it some prayer and assigning each entrant a number, I pulled three winners from the proverbial hat. And they are as follows: 1) The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert goes to Rosa. (See Emily’s review here.) 2) Unseduced and Unshaken: The…
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Web Newberys and RR News (Plus Giveaway!)
It feels wrong to merely skip over Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, especially with President Obama’s inauguration today, and yet with Black History month coming up in less that two weeks, we’ve opted to save our coverage of the topic for then. We’re looking forward to talking about the movie Lincoln and other related books…
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Web Newberys and News
Technically it’s mid-January, I know. But we’re finally running again on all cylinders after the holidays–or at least I am! After traveling and dealing with tech issues, I’m ready to launch into this new year. As you may recall, last year we developed a segment called Web Newberys, where we linked to some of the…
Read MoreBible Reading Challenge, Week 49 (THE END!)
THE CHURCH: On to Glory! This is our last part of the yearly study! For those of you who make it this far, congratulations, and we hope it’s been a good experience for you. It’s certainly been a labor of love on our part. What better way to end than to savor the promise of…
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