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[Monday Reading] Award-Winning Picture Books from the Philippines: Tight Times and Naku, Nakuu, Nakuuu!

It’s Monday, What are You Reading is a meme hosted by Jen and Kellee from Teach Mentor Texts (and brainchild of Sheila at BookJourney). Two of our blogging friends, Linda from Teacher Dance and Tara from A Teaching Life have inspired us to join this vibrant meme. Last Week’s Review and Miscellany Posts Here are a few of the reviews we have done […]

[Monday Reading] The ‘delicacy’ in Mitsumasa Anno’s Picture Books

It’s Monday, What are You Reading is a meme hosted by Jen and Kellee from Teach Mentor Texts (and brainchild of Sheila at BookJourney). Two of our blogging friends, Linda from Teacher Dance and Tara from A Teaching Life have inspired us to join this vibrant meme. Last Week’s Review and Miscellany Posts Here are a few of the reviews we have done […]

[Monday Reading] Allen Say and April Winner for the AWB Reading Challenge

It’s Monday, What are You Reading is a meme hosted by Jen and Kellee from Teach Mentor Texts (and brainchild of Sheila at BookJourney). Two of our blogging friends, Linda from Teacher Dance and Tara from A Teaching Life have inspired us to join this vibrant meme. Last Week’s Review and Miscellany Posts Here are a few of the reviews we have done […]

[Poetry Friday] Tim Burton’s Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

Our Poetry Friday offering this week is very much in keeping with our current bimonthly theme until the end of April: Oddballs and Misfits, the Surreal and the Peculiar: A Celebration of Beautiful Strangenesses. Our host this week is Liz at Growing Wild. I first found out about this book when I was in Brisbane […]

A Boy Genius from the Stone Age and a Peculiar Little Visitor in Raymond Briggs’ “UG” and “The Man”

We are soon about to end our Oddballs and Misfits, the Surreal and the Peculiar, A Celebration of Beautiful Strangenesses theme. And so before the week ends, let me share a few more picture books from the amazing Raymond Briggs as these two stories seem to fit the surreal and oddball theme perfectly. The Man Written and […]