Tag Archive | patricia polacco
GatheringReaders: Bridge to Terabithia – Film Viewing
Today was another GatheringReaders Day (a book club that I have organized for young readers here in Singapore this December). Since last week was kind of heavy-going with full-length discussions on our favorite authors, we had a film viewing this time around. We watched the film adaptation of the Newbery Honor book Bridge to Terabithia […]
NAGC 2011, New Orleans – Sessions on Books and Reading!
I just got back from New Orleans yesterday, having attended the National Association for Gifted Children Conference in New Orleans. I was privileged to have a poster presentation as well as a paper presentation this year which made the 24 hour plane ride worthwhile (it also helped that I was meeting lovely friends while I […]
Nonfiction Monday: Patricia Polacco’s Junkyard Wonders
When I heard about this lovely book from fellow bookblogger Kerry Aradhya from PictureBooks and Pirouettes, I knew I had to look it up in our community library. Not surprisingly, I was able to find it and to my great delight I learned that the book was actually based on real life events of the […]
