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More of Robin Smith’s Favorite School Stories
Marianthe’s Story: Painted Words / Spoken Memories written and illustrated by Aliki 64 pp. Greenwillow Review 9/98 The story of a young immigrant girl from an unnamed country is told in a pair of...
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[A special guest article by Kadir Nelson, originally published in the September/October 2008 issue of Horn Book Magazine.] As a kid, I prided myself on being a good student. However, it wasn’t until my...
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>for the latest issue of Notes from the Horn Book, and please pass along to your colleagues, customers, family and friends. This issue stars our favorite teachers, Dean Schneider and Robin Smith!...
View Article>State Birds and Foods of Many Lands
>In the most recent Booklist, Michael Cart wonders why “curriculum-related nonfiction” hasn’t “migrated more or less completely to the Internet by now.” Me, too: hardcover series books about...
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I totally wanted to go to one of those. But here’s your chance, if you feel like playing along with the class I’m teaching at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. The...
View Article>Happy to help!
>M.T. Anderson tipped me to this thoughtful NYT piece about the state of trade books in the classroom (wow, that phrase sounds as antiquated as whole language) and the fact that the Horn Book gets a...
View Article>Reading aloud and alone
>Twitter is atwitter with responses to Richard Peck’s remark in Notes that “over and over [kids are]telling me that the books I wrote for them to read are being read to them by their teachers. And...
View Article>Well, what about Dick Sargent, then?
>The children’s librarians over at PUBYAC are discussing impossible homework assignments–like the kid who came in and needed a biography (it had to be a book) about Dick York, famous Indianan. I...
View Article>Becoming a Nation of Wusses
>The recent report about the reluctance of high school biology teachers to teach evolution really drives me crazy. Again. I think I am most bothered by the 60% of teachers who weasel out of or...
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Guiding the young
“This is a very good start, really. Now, you might want to move that line just a tad to the left, and think a bit about your colors.” The post Guiding the young appeared first on The Horn Book.
View ArticleOff to a fresh start
Hello dear education community. I’m back! Last year I was quite silent. This was due in part to the fact that I had moved to a new school. But mainly it was because I was simply at a loss for what to...
View ArticleHBook Podcast 1.12 – Special Guest Educator
Podcast the sixth in which Siân and early education teacher Meg Lederhos (who also happens to be Siân’s coworker at The Bar) talk about content, curriculum, and diversity (or lack thereof) in books...
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On Robin Smith’s “Teaching New Readers to Love Books” (from 2003)
“Despite the pressures of parents and the winds of educational change, I do not teach children to read because it is good for them. To me, books are not meant to be the path to Harvard or even the best...
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Haiku: A Small Poem with Great Potential
snow melting the village brimming over… with children! –Issa (1763-1828) (translated by David Lanoue) Yes, I was taught that a haiku, a short poem that originated in Japan centuries ago, was supposed...
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A book for small hands
I’ve been following the criticism of Scholastic’s biography of Trump for younger children, President Donald Trump, with interest but I only got a hold of a copy today, and thank you, Scholastic, for...
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What lies beneath
Pursuant to that Trump biography, over on Facebook Sarah Hamburg told me about a really perceptive article about biographies for young people. “George Washington and Slavery: Going Beyond Picture Books...
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Guiding the young
“This is a very good start, really. Now, you might want to move that line just a tad to the left, and think a bit about your colors.”
View ArticleOff to a fresh start
Hello dear education community. I’m back! Last year I was quite silent. This was due in part to the fact that I had moved to a new school. But mainly it was because I was simply at a loss for what to...
View ArticleHBook Podcast 1.12 – Special Guest Educator
Podcast the sixth in which Siân and early education teacher Meg Lederhos (who also happens to be Siân’s coworker at The Bar) talk about content, curriculum, and diversity (or lack thereof) in books...
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On Robin Smith’s “Teaching New Readers to Love Books” (from 2003)
“Despite the pressures of parents and the winds of educational change, I do not teach children to read because it is good for them. To me, books are not meant to be the path to Harvard or even the best...
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