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Jinx

Jinx
by J. Torres (Author), Terry Austin and Rick Burchett (Illustrators)

Booktalk: In this new series, Li’l Jinx has now grown up and and is getting ready for her first day of high school. She can’t wait to see her friends—all of the friends she’s hung out with since she was a little girl. There’s no reason for any of them to start acting weird, like, not want to sit with her at lunch, or want to date her or anything…right? It’s not like everything changes in high school…is it?

Snippet:
(As Jinx walks down the hallway, the other students talk about her…)

Hey!
That’s the “tomboy”…
…who wants to join the football team.

Check it out, It’s the grafitti artist…
…who messed up Coach’s sign-up sheet!

…It’s an obvious cry for help..
..I mean look at her!

What is she supposed to be, some kind of feminist?

Zig and Wikki in The Cow

Zig and Wikki in The Cow
by Nadja Spiegelman (Author) and Trade Loeffler (Illustrator)

Booktalk: When alien pals Zig and Wikki lose their spaceship on Earth, their friendship is definitely in trouble. In order to get home, they must travel underground and through a cow, picking up fun facts about ecology (and picking fights) along the way. This funny science-based easy-reader comic is packed with fast-paced adventure and facts about poop: what more could a young reader want?

Snippet:

WIKKI: And how do you know it’s him?

ZIG: I’d recognize that cute face anywhere.

(close up of a fly’s face)

WIKKI: For someone who’s so cute, he sure looks like he’s eating POOP.

ZIG: REALLY? That can’t be good for him.

Big City Otto

Big City Otto (Elephants Never Forget)
by Bill Slavin (Author, Illustrator)
80 pages

Booktalk: Otto is a lumbering, sweet-natured elephant who can’t forget his childhood chum Georgie, a smiley-faced chimpanzee who was abducted and shipped away from their forest home by the mysterious and sinister Man with the Wooden Nose. Accompanied by a wisecracking but protective parrot named Crackers, Otto decides to hop a plane and look for Georgie in America. But once they hit the wild streets of the concrete jungle, Otto and Crackers court trouble at every turn…

Snippet:
CRACKERS: They were good times, Otto, but Georgie’s gone! You’ve gotta get used to it.

OTTO: But I miss him Crackers! We were pals! And that day haunts me. I just feel I could have done more.

Young Readers

Picture Book of the Day

Baby Animals At the Zoo
by Editors of Kingfisher

Booktalk: With playful text, and beautiful close-up photography this board book features baby animals in their natural habitats.

Snippet:
Golden lion tamarin
I am a tiny monkey with a golden mane like a lion. My long fingers help me find yummy insects. Munch munch!
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Comic of the Week

Chick and Chickie Play All Day!
by Claude Ponti (Author, Illustrator)
32 pages

Booktalk: Chick and Chickie love to play in their very own way, whether scaring each other silly or tickling the letter A. As young readers eagerly turn the pages of the story, they’ll look forward to spotting all the witty side jokes and hilarious details.

Snippet:
Chickie, let’s make masks!
Good idea, Chick!
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Free Comic Book Day

The first Saturday in May is Free Comic Book Day!

See the video and visit the Free Comic Book Day website find out more!

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STEM Friday is coming!

STEM Friday is coming! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

If you blog about science or math books tomorrow,

come share your link!

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Children’s Book Week

Today is the LAST day to vote for the Children’s Choice Book Awards

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Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8

2012 Poetry Month Progressive Poem

2012 Poetry Month Progressive Poem

Day 12 of the 2012 Poetry Month Progressive Poem is here at Booktalking. Poets in the kidlitosphere are adding one line a day. Contributing so far are poets…

1 Irene at Live Your Poem
2 Doraine at Dori Reads
3 Jeannine at View from a Window Seat
4 Robyn at Read, Write, Howl
5 Susan at Susan Taylor Brown
6 Mary Lee at A Year of Reading
7 Penny at A Penny and her Jots
8 Jone at Deo Writer
9 Gina at Swagger Writer’s
10 Julie at The Drift Record
11 Kate at Book Aunt

And now it’s my turn to add line #12…

If you are reading this
you must be hungry
Kick off your silver slippers
Come sit with us a spell

A hanky, here, now dry your tears
And fill your glass with wine
Now, pour. The parchment has secrets
Smells of a Morrocan market spill out.

You have come to the right place, just breathe in.
Honey, mint, cinnamon, sorrow. Now, breathe out
last week’s dreams. Take a wish from the jar.
Inside, deep inside, is the answer…

Next up are:

13 Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference
14 Diane at Random Noodling
15 Ruth at There is No Such Thing as a Godforsaken Town
16 Natalie at Wading Through Words
17 Tara at A Teaching Life
18 Amy at The Poem Farm
19 Lori at Habitual Rhymer
20 Heidi at My Juicy Little Universe
21 Myra at Gathering Books
22 Pat at Writer on a Horse
23 Miranda at Miranda Paul Books
24 Linda at TeacherDance
25 Greg at Gotta Book
26 Renee at No Water River
27 Linda at Write Time
28 Caroline at Caroline by Line
29 Sheri at Sheri Doyle
30 Irene at Live Your Poem

So it ends where it began. What a great idea, Irene! I’m so glad I was able to participate.
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Picture Book of the Day

Hush Little Turtle
By Maranke Rinck (Author) and Martijn Van Der Linden (Illustrator)

Booktalk: In this board book, Turtle has a problem. He can’t go to sleep! His friends try to help him out…

Snippet:
“Ahem, I have an idea,” announces Bird.
And he picks up a stick.

TURN THE PAGE

“Hush little Turtle,” the others sing.
Very soft. And very slow.
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Comic of the Week

Patrick in A Teddy Bear’s Picnic and Other Stories
by Geoffrey Hayes (Author, llustrator)
32 pages

Booktalk: Patrick is a puddle-jumping teddy bear whose biggest challenge is avoiding naptime…until he has to contend with Big Bear.

Snippet:
PATRICK: OOOF!

PATRICK: Come back!

PATRICK: BIG BEAR!

PATRICK: May I have my balloon…please!
BIG BEAR: NO!

BIG BEAR: I want to hear it go…

SFX: POP!
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STEM Haiku

Blue Screen of Death
Blue makes you calm, so
they say, but not during a
computer crash. NO!
© 2012 Anastasia Suen
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STEM Friday is coming!

STEM Friday is coming! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

If you blog about science or math books tomorrow,

come share your link or a STEM haiku of your own!

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Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8

Young Readers

Picture Book of the Day

Happy Easter, Mouse!
By Laura Numeroff (Author) and Felicia Bond (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Help Mouse find out who is leaving Easter eggs all over the house!

Snippet:
When he wakes up on Easter
morning, he finds a yellow egg
under his covers.

With each page turn of this board book, readers see Mouse finding eggs in a new color. The color words are printed in that color – a nice touch!
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Comic of the Week

Ferret Fun
by Karen Rostoker-Gruber (Author) and Paul Ratz De Tagyos (Illustrator)
32 pages

Booktalk: Fudge and Einstein are ferrets. Marvel is a cat. Two ferrets plus one cat equal trouble.

Snippet:
FUDGE: We’ve got to do something or we’re ferret fritters fur-ever!
EINSTEIN: What can we do?

FUDGE: We could ignore her.
EINSTEIN: She’ll bug us more.

FUDGE: We could run away.
EINSTEIN: Then who would feed us raisins?

FUDGE: It’s no use. We’re doomed.
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STEM Haiku

tornado
dark sky, funnel clouds
twirling, swirling, lifting high
twisting, tossing…gone…
© 2012 Anastasia Suen

The sirens went off three times Tuesday afternoon, but the 13(!) tornadoes didn’t pass directly over our house, thank goodness!

If you didn’t see the tractor trailers lifted up by the tornado, watch this video.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stX1Avy4qHg]
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STEM Friday is coming!

STEM Friday is coming! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

If you blog about science or math books tomorrow, come share your link or a STEM haiku of your own!

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Literary Link

My April Quick Tips column: Hot Topics: STEM Poetry is at Booklist Online.

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My NEW chapter book is Just So, Brianna (All-Star Cheerleaders)

Young Readers

Picture Book of the Day

Princess!
by Viviana Garofoli (Illustrator)

Booktalk: The rhythmic text in this board book follows a young “princess” from morning to night.

Snippet:
Princess wakes up!
Time to start the day.
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Chapter Book of the Day

Binky Under Pressure (A Binky Adventure)
by Ashley Spires (Author, Illustrator)
64 pages

Booktalk: In Binky’s third adventure, our intrepid, sometimes accident-prone hero is shaken out of his routine when he’s forced to contend with Gracie, a dainty striped foster kitty who comes to live at Binky’s space station (aka his home at 42 Sentinel Parkway). Binky instantly resents the new arrival, whose cute face and perfect manners are downright annoying. Indeed, Gracie seems too perfect. So Binky decides to do some undercover investigating and discovers a shocking truth about the family guest. Soon Binky is thrust full-throttle into a situation that puts all his Space Cat skills to the ultimate test!

Snippet:
Why would his humans do this to him?
Another cat? Wasn’t he good enough for them?
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The March 2012 Carnival Of Children’s Literature is up!

Have you visited the March Carnival Of Children’s Literature
at the Just Children’s Books! yet? Hop over and say hello to Nichole!

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STEM Friday is coming!

STEM Friday is coming! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

If you blog about science or math books tomorrow, come share your link!

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Literary Link

My March Quick Tips column: Hot Topics: Hatching Eggs with STEM is at Booklist Online.
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My NEW chapter book is Just So, Brianna (All-Star Cheerleaders)

Young Readers

Picture Book of the Day

Bouncy Baby

Booktalk: A fun book for baby play! Under each flap is something for baby to do…

Snippet:

Bouncy baby
Bouncy lap

(Lift the flap and see…)

Little baby
Likes to
clap clap clap
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Chapter Book of the Day

The Sign of the Black Rock (Three Thieves)
by Scott Chantler (Author, Illustrator)
112 pages

Booktalk: In this comic, Dessa, Topper and Fisk continue their search for Greyfalcon in hopes that he will lead them to Dessa’s brother. But a terrible storm drives the three thieves off the road. Drenched, they take shelter at the Black Rock Inn–only to come face to face with their pursuer, Captain Drake.

Snippet:

QUINN: They tried robbing the royal treasury. It’s all anyone’s talking about on the east shore. Guess the news hasn’t reached here yet.
TULLY: Until now. Heh.
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STEM Friday on January 6, 2012

STEM Friday is coming! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

The STEM Friday Round-up on January 6, 2012

is at rovingfiddlehead kidlit.

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Literary Links

10 bold predictions for book publishing in 2012 (via @drydenbks)

Love children’s and YA poetry? Join the new Poetry Ambassadors listserv!
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My NEW chapter book is Save the Best for Last, Abby (All-Star Cheerleaders)