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Friday, October 31, 2008

Halloween -- a poetry re-issue!

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It's Poetry Friday AND Halloween, so it seems like a good time to re-post a poem originally posted here two years ago. HALLOWEEN by Gre...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Look who's blogging!

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Why it's the pumpkin carving , picture book and YA writing (and illustrating), all around nice guy David LaRochelle ! Go check out his...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Oops. And a reminder.

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Yes, that's right: oops. I had the best of intentions to get up a blog today about all sorts of interesting things. And then I looked at...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

Once again... with feeling!

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It's time for this month's Carnival of Children's Literature (hosted at the Well Read Child ). Lots of good stuff over there, i...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Why Vote? -- a voting poem/an election poem/a voting Fib

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Why Vote? by Gregory K. Vote. Why? Folks fight For this right. It's not just a word: Vote! It's how you make your voice heard. It...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Flashback, children's literature variety

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For absolutely no discernible reason, today I began reciting a "jingle" from a Homer Price story (by Robert McCloskey). A Homer Pr...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Three years ago...

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... as I shuttled books from my car up to our new school library... then into classrooms... then into storage only to bring them back out of...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

There is no joy in Mudville

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For me, the baseball season is as good as done now (though if there's a Game Seven, I'll be watching). I was thinking, though, how h...
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Friday, October 17, 2008

Vote for Me! -- a voting poem/an election poem

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VOTE FOR ME! by Gregory K. Vote for me! Vote for me! Everybody vote for me! I put up my posters. I promised free toasters! Boy, asking for v...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Ziiiiip

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Are you kidding me? Past the middle of October already???? It's wrong, I tell ya. I was not informed time would pass so quickly, unlike ...
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Monday, October 13, 2008

Blog the Vote.

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At the Kidlit08 Conference in Portland, Colleen , Lee , and I hatched a plan: On November 3rd, the Monday before election day, we're en...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008

And in the boxes o' surprise...

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... weren't that many surprises, actually. Whenever, in the past, I've been lucky enough to unpack boxes of donations for my school ...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Fall

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Really early this morning, I got up and went outside to get the paper. Nothing unusual about that, of course... but outside, the sun was jus...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

Poetry news on a Friday

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How nice that on Poetry Friday (links collected here by Anastasia ) we've got the announcement that Mary Ann Hoberman is the new Chil...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Better late than never!

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It was a month ago when I said I thought we'd get our second library up and running... thought I'd get to dig through boxes of books...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

Funny, political, good read-aloud

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Yup -- if I were taking out a personal ad for books right now, I'd be looking for a picture book that covers voting, or American history...
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Sunday, October 05, 2008

Laughs, I tell ya.

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This is so self-reflexive -- linking off to Fuse #8 the same day she links to me (whoa. So meta, man.), but her Video Sunday is always a h...
Saturday, October 04, 2008

Simply put...

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I love the playoffs. I know it's not profound or anything, but baseball and I are mighty close... and playoff time? It's all good. S...
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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Kidlit08 (less quickly-like)

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There truly have been so many great recaps of the conference (go here for a master list) that I'm gonna avoid doing a full recap. I...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

I interrupt recapping to say...

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Cybils nominations open October 1st (aka TOMORROW). Get thee hence! NOMINATE!!!! (well... after midnight!)