Children's Literature Book Club
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Literary Pumpkins

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We recently moved to a new city, and I always like to head the our local library as soon as possible to sign up for a new library card.  It...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

ALA 2010 Winners!

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oh yes, I'm a day late with this news, but for anyone who missed it, The American Library Association has announced their award winners ...
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Monday, January 04, 2010

January -Favorites From Our Youth

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WE're reading favorite books from our youth at January's meeting and everyone is welcome to bring along other old favorites to chat ...
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Friday, December 04, 2009

December - Holiday meeting

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For our December meeting, we decided to keep simple and just read one book, Richard Peck's A Season of Gifts. You can find a free print...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

November - Novels in Verse

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We focused on Novels in Verse at our November meeting, and I was happy to hear how many members loved the books, even when they thought they...
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Sunday, October 04, 2009

October 2009 - Mysteries

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I decided to make one book mandatory for discussion and I recommend reading the rest if you have time. The book I most wanted to discuss wa...
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Friday, September 04, 2009

September 2009 - Beehive Book Award Nominees

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For September Book Club picks, Sharon decided to choose one book from each of the five categories from the Beehive Nominees. (Optional: F...
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Saturday, July 04, 2009

July 2009 - Science Fiction

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Here's the reading list from Whitney and Scott: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (I LOVED the audio vers...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

Terrible Yellow Eyes

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Am I the last one to hear of the blog Terrible Yellow Eyes ?  Illustrator Cory Godbey says Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak has ...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

June 2009 - A.E. Cannon author study

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Before you read this post, be warned that no matter how many times I change it, Blogger keeps doing crazy things to the text size and spacin...
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May 2009 - Historical Fiction, WWII

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Natasha Maw hosted our meeting in May to discuss historical fiction.  This year we focused on WWII and Natasha selected books to cover diff...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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I remember being enchanted by the Land of Chewandswallow when I was little.  I'm a little sad the movie preview looks so different than ...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

April 2009 - Fairy Tales

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We had so much fun reading fairy tales in April.  We didn't have a lot of time to read so we kept the list short and sweet and asked eac...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

March 2009 - 2009 Newbery & Caldecott Winners

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For our meeting in March we read the newest Newbery and Caldecott award winners.  Here's the reading list: 2009 Newbery Medal Winner The...
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Friday, February 27, 2009

February 2009 - Cybils Award Finalists

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In February we discussed Cybils award finalists  To narrow things down (because as much as we'd like too, we couldn't discuss ALL t...
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

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Oh Underneath, people have such nice things to say about you, and yet, I can't seem to finish you!  On first attempt I only lasted a few...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

I want Jarrett Krosoczka to be my best friend

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Jarrett Krosoczka, the author/illustrator of awesome books like Punk Farm, recently put together a video for a SCBWI presentation in NY.  If...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

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Taylor Markam was ditched at a gas station at the age of eleven.  Hannah, the woman who found her was a volunteer at Jellicoe School and t...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

ALA winners!

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This morning the American Library Association announced the award winners for 2009.  You can see the whole list here (and I highly recommend...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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Twilight has been deemed the Vampire book for people who don't like Vampire books, and Stephenie Meyer said that The Host was a scienc...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash by Wendelin Van Draanen

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Hi, I'm Stephanie Ford, I'm an adult, and I'm addicted to Sammy Keyes mysteries.  There, I said it.   There are so many middle...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

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For those of you who don't know, the official title of my MA is a Master of Arts in Language, Literacy, and Culture with an emphasis in ...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

January - Books being turned into movies

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At least once a year our book club reads current books being turned into movies.  Here are the picks for this month: The Tale of Despereaux ...
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