Review: The Smart Cookie

Review: The Smart Cookie

This is a story about a little cookie who lives in a great big bakery with very clever and accomplished colleagues such as croissants, cherry pies and cupcakes.  Our Cookie doesn’t have a name or, as it happens, a gender. […]

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Review: The Shadow Arts

Review: The Shadow Arts

Following on from Monstrous Devices comes the thrilling next instalment in this rollercoaster adventure series. Four months on from their last adventure, memories start to resurface as do old enemies. Just when life is getting back to normal, Alex finds […]

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Donors Choose for Summer Reading

Donors Choose for Summer Reading

As I’ve written here before, I am finishing up my second year at an elementary school in Springfield, Massachusetts. According to the Massachusetts Department of Education profile, 93% of the students at my school are low-income, 95% high needs, and […]

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THE BOOK THAT KIBO WROTE

THE BOOK THAT KIBO WROTE

The Book That Kibo Wrote by Mariana Ruiz Johnson and translated by Lawrence Schimel shows readers how universal storytelling is. One night, under the red sky of the savanna, Kibo sets down to write a story about his home, and before he […]

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