Books

  • While not picture books in the traditional sense of stitched hardcovers, the Tiny Titans series by Art Baltazar and Franco should not be ignored. They are engaging, colorful, and “slapsticky” – making them an engaging way to sustain positive reading habits among emergent readers.

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  • NYCC/NYAF 2010

    Good friends tell each other the truth. They are honest with one another. But sometimes good friends allow each other to keep certain “rationalizations.” I tell my good friends I go to the annual New York Comic Con (NYCC) for the sake of my kids and to fulfill my professional obligations as an educator. My…

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  • Picturing Books: Quiet

    What’s interesting about Deborah Underwood and Renata Liwska’s The Quiet Book is its message that it is okay not to say anything when something is wrong. Often books targeted to young readers promote talking about your feelings and explore ways of self expression. The Quiet Book validates those times when you just don’t feel like…

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  • Tae Eun Yoo’s The Little Red Fish is pretty story about a boy’s fantasy adventure in a library. It seemed like quite an ordinary book at first until the near the end where the worded narrative ends and you are forced to pay attention to the images (as they now carry the narrative fully).

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  • I believe with those who believe picture books are an art form. I appreciate the art of the picture book. I have written about my appreciation of the picture book before. Despite being in town this summer, the children did not participate in the New York Public Library’s Summer Reading Program. We meant to but…

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  • Tuesday Tickler: Not Here

    I’ve decided it’s too easy to get caught up in the muck and mire of daily bread and butter. I’ve decided there’s too many bogey men around and I don’t have the luxury of being scared. I’ve also decided that it is not OK for my children to see me mad at life. They have…

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  • Getting to “No” You

    http://www.youtube.com/v/6cYdH46HqpE&hl=en<\/embed><\/object><\/div>";” alt=””> Whenever I think about rejection, I think about that old Johnny Yune joke: Women think I’m a sex object. I ask for sex and they object. There is a great post on Bizrelationships’s Blog about rejection. It is great not because it offers something new on the subject. It is great because everyone…

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  • The New York Love Story

    http://www.youtube.com/v/uyaj2P-dSi8&hl=en<\/embed><\/object><\/div>";” alt=””> Where Paris is the “City of Love and Light,” New York is the “City of Lighted Love Stories” – which in my opinion makes it a far more interesting place to live. Think of that old uncle or  grandparent who tells the same story over and over again. We all have one that…

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