Come check out a few childrenβs book writers and illustrators who make book-related activity pages!
Come check out a few childrenβs book writers and illustrators who make book-related activity pages!
What is your favorite YA novel that was published in the last five years?
For my patients and families:
Thank you so much for the honor and privilege of being your pediatrician.
It is with a heavy heart that I need to tell you that Iβm leaving Surf City Pediatrics. Truly it has overall been a wonderful experienceβjoining a work family and creating a community of patient families.
Iβm sick today. The day before my middle child would have turned sixteen.
βWe didnβt always live on Mango Street. Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keelier it was Paulina, and before that I canβt remember. But what I remember most is moving a lot. Each time it seemed thereβd be more of us. By the time we got to Mango Street we were sixβMama, Papa, Carolos, Kiki, my sister Nenny and me.β
The House on Mango Street ~ Sandra Cisneros
The Skull is beautifully rendered in words and illustration. The pauses and subtext are spot on, a tale with an underlying lesson of acceptance and also friendship.
<SPOILERS> for those of us bookworms who sometimes skip to the ending while still in the middle of the book.
βEven as a little girl, I had thought that the swamp was a magical place where new lives began and old ones ended, where enemies and heroes werenβt always waht one expected, and where anything could happen, even to a clumsy princess.β
Excerpt from The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker
We officially have a rainbow teen. Not a rainbow baby, not a rainbow child, but a rainbow TEEN.
10 Word Review:
Bruce trying to nap
While readers control him
Hilarity ensues
βRamona Quimby hoped her parents would forget to give her a little talking-to. She did not want anything to spoil this exciting day.β
from Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
FROM: littlelionbookworm@icloud.com
TO: hourtohour.notetonote@gmail.com
βAlex approached Black Elm as if she were sidling up to a wild animal, cautious in her walk up the long, curving driveway, careful not to show her fear. How many times had she made this walk? But today was different.β
from Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
Meeting the Doctor as a child
Adventure
Bigger on the Inside!