Guest Blogger: All About Patricia Polacco

Here I go with another great American author!  I discovered Patricia Polacco when I had some wonderfully gifted grade 2 readers and grade 3 students.  Her books have more challenging print (more words, more difficult words) so they were appropriate for stronger young readers and great for a read aloud session too.  The beautiful illustrations …

Guest Blogger: Bunny Trouble Treasury by Hans Wilhelm

Hans Wilhelm is a German American author/illustrator who’s work I discovered while searching for Easter stories one year. I always enjoyed Easter at school because it not only brought the promise of warmer weather, but the students were a little more mature and confident in their abilities, the expectations were higher and the work a …

A Bookshelf For Our Daughters

It’s International Women’s Day, a day that everyone should use to recognize and celebrate the achievements of women in their lives. My good friend E wrote to me last week, providing the inspiration for this post. You see, she is carving out space on her daughter’s bookshelf for books that “embody feminism and all that …

Guest Blogger: All About Judith Viorst

Sometime after the worst cold snap and the January thaw, when half of the kids had leaky boots, wet snow pants and soggy socks and mittens I would search my class library for one of my favourite’s by American author Judith Viorst to add some much needed humour to lift the misery caused by one …