Growing Bookworms Newsletter: November 9

Today I will be sending out the new issue of the Growing Bookworms email newsletter. (If you would like to subscribe, you can find a sign-up form here.) The Growing Bookworms newsletter contains content from my blog focused on children's books and raising readers. It is sent out once every two weeks (if you are getting daily Feedblitz updates, you might prefer to sign up for the Growing Bookworms newsletter instead, and only receive one email every two weeks). There are currently 961 subscribers to the newsletter. (I know that it's just a number, but I'm really hoping to get to 1000 by the end of the year.)

Newsletter Update: In this issue, I have three book reviews, two children's literacy round-ups (one here and one at The Reading Tub) and three posts with Kidlitosphere news. I also have a post about a nice list of children's literature blogs from School Library Journal. Not included in the newsletter, I have:

• Two posts at Booklights, one with children's literacy links for parents, and the other launching a new series that I'm writing on Tips for Growing Bookworms (Tip #1 is about reading aloud).
• A post showing my favorite Sesame Street-themed Google logo from the week (I love Cookie Monster).

Reading Update: In the past two weeks, I read two middle grade and two young adult titles:

• Angie Sage: Queste (Septimus Heap, Book 4). Katherine Tegen Books. Completed November 3, 2009. My review.
• Angie Sage: Syren (Septimus Heap, book 5). Katherine Tegan Books. Completed November 6, 2009. My review.
• Diana Peterfreund: Rampant. HarperTeen. Completed October 29, 2009. My review.
• Jordan Sonnenblick: After Ever After. Scholastic. Completed November 1, 2009. My review.

I have a trip for work coming up later this week which means that A) I'll probably get some reading done on airplanes; but B) posting on the blog will be sparse for the next few days. Hopefully I'll be able to get back up to speed on reviews after that. I have a huge stack of picture books awaiting my attention.

How about you? What have you been reading and enjoying? Thanks for reading, and for growing bookworms!

© 2009 by Jennifer Robinson of Jen Robinson's Book Page. All rights reserved. All Amazon links in this post are affiliate links, and may result in my receiving a small commission on purchases (with no additional cost to you).

Comments

[twitter.com/readingtub]

Thanks Jen! I was racking my brain about why I knew Angie Sage's name ... we're reading Araminta Spookie these days.

[Jen Robinson]

Haven't read those, Terry, but they do look fun!

[Doret]

I love the Araminta Spookie books.
For a while I was in a serious male protagonist slump. It's over. I have been reading some great books with male leads.

Right now I am reading and loving Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

[Jen Robinson]

Glad you're finding some good male leads, Doret. Monstrumologist is on my list. I liked the Alfred Kropp books, and this ones sounds like an improvement over those.