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Lit Links for 3/2: Celebrating Read Across America!

BNA_Daily | March 1, 2010

Tuesday, March 2nd, is Dr. Seuss’s birthday, and the National Education Association (NEA) invites you to celebrate with Read Across America!  Read Across America is an annual event promoted by teachers, librarians, bookstores, politicians, and celebrities across the country to get kids excited about reading.  The NEA website and various reading blogs give tons of [...]

Reader’s Advisory for 6/17: Books about Nature

BNA_Daily | June 17, 2009

Everyone knows that being green is super hip, so get caught reading a book about nature this summer!  Margot Berwin’s much anticipated Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire released on Tuesday, with the Wall Street Journal calling it “one of this summer’s bigger literary debuts.”  The book has elements of fantasy and magical realism [...]

Reader’s Advisory for 5/22: Summer Reading for All Ages

BNA_Daily | May 22, 2009

The term “summer reading” might make kids groan, but it shouldn’t just mean slogging through the books assigned to them by teachers.  Summer is a great chance for students to remember what’s it’s like to read a book for fun, to get lost in the pages without worrying about being tested later.  Some students already [...]