Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: November 7
November 07, 2014
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics featured this week include book lists, Halloween, Day of the Dead, diversity, cybils, growing bookworms, reading, publishing, picture book month, literacy, schools, kidlitosphere, advent calendars, and Skype.
Book Lists
A valuable resource from @SunlitPages | 9 Simple Books for the Emerging Reader http://ow.ly/DKEQL #GrowingBookworms
PW's Best Children's Books of 2014 from @PublishersWkly http://ow.ly/DPvIX #kidlit #YALit
10 Picture Books For Siblings of New Babies selected by @mrskatiefitz http://ow.ly/DP06l #kidlit #BookList
New @100scopenotes analysis: The NYT Best Illustrated/Caldecott Overlap http://ow.ly/DKHrL #kidlit #PictureBooks
The latest Stacked Get Genrefied list focuses on #YALit in Translation http://ow.ly/DKH8U
Some Favorite Books for Kids Age 3-4 from @growingbbb http://ow.ly/DKFbP #kidlit #literacy
Fun #BookList from Jean Little Library: RA RA READ: Interactive Picture Books http://ow.ly/DHgtT #kidlit
5 Picture Books for Dia de Los Muertos selected by @rosemondcates http://ow.ly/DE4ya #kidlit
Book list: @Scholastic Highlights Books that Celebrate The Day of the Dead! @LatinosInKidLit http://ow.ly/DE3QJ
Ten Children's Books for Halloween selected by @EmmaBarnesWrite @AwfullyBigBlog http://ow.ly/DE4jY #kidlit
Morning links: List of lists edition from @bkshelvesofdoom w/ links to lots of #kidlit + #YAlit book lists http://ow.ly/DE3DE
Votes for Women: Seven YA books featuring the suffrage movement. @bkshelvesofdoom http://ow.ly/DWfZM #yalit
Cybils
Today's featured #Cybils Review: Girls Like Us by Gail Giles, reviewed by @LMillerLachmann from The Pirate Tree http://ow.ly/DT4Mm
Today's #Cybils Featured Review is Strange Sweet Song by Adi Rule, reviewed by @kimberlymarief from Stacked http://ow.ly/DE1oK
Coming this Friday at http://www.Cybils.com : Exclusive cover reveal of new book by #Cybils founder Anne Levy @zaftigbabe
Diversity
Thoughts on Moving Beyond the Magically (Dis)abled in #kidlit from Cammie McGovern @HornBook http://ow.ly/DT85w #WeNeedDiverseBooks
Looking to Move Beyond the 11%, responses to a recent @PublishersWkly survey show 89% of respondents white #diversity http://ow.ly/DP2Ha
Robin Talley’s Top 7 LGBT Characters of Color from YA | @bookswithacuppa via @catagator http://ow.ly/DKPcR
In her discussion of Horizon by Jenn Reese @semicolonblog muses on where #diversity intersects w/ speculative fiction http://ow.ly/DHhlD
10 Favorite LGBT Characters in MG and YA Literature, selected by @Jenna_Goodall http://ow.ly/DE2FA via @tashrow
Events, Programs and Research
News release: @tidybooks kids' bookcase company partners with global #literacy non-profit organization @litworldsays http://ow.ly/DPaXD
November is #PictureBookMonth | See: Why Picture Books Are Important by Aaron Becker, first in a series of posts http://ow.ly/DKDTt
Mary kicks off 30 Days of #Diverse Picture Books @SproutsBkshelf with Little Humans by Brandon Stanton http://ow.ly/DHhe3
Neat! Container of Hope: International Book Bank Ships 86,000 Books to Liberia | Carolyn Sun in @sljournal http://ow.ly/DWQAU
Growing Bookworms
Let Them Catch You Reading, 10 suggestions for modeling the love of books to kids | @michaeljpryor via @librareanne http://ow.ly/DKvOi
The Book Chook: Guest post by Catherine Ross: 5 Apps to Help you Raise a Reader http://ow.ly/DKOIr #literacy
Advent Calendars for Little Bookworms from @cjfriess http://ow.ly/DKGwx #literacy
Kidlitosphere
Morning Notes: Awkward Illustrator Nickname Edition @100scopenotes includes Tweet o' the Week from ME re @KateMessner http://ow.ly/DT5eR
At A Year of Reading: @MaryLeeHahn + @frankisibberson are celebrating author @barbaraoconnor http://ow.ly/DHh5X
On Reading, Writing, and Publishing
For the Love of Reading | @TesseractViews responds in defense of kids reading what they enjoy, w/ list of faves http://ow.ly/DP41i
In this month's @HornBook Editorial Roger Sutton talks about the value that 3rd party publishing adds to books http://ow.ly/DE2lv
Some reasonable points here: Save the Book Publisher by @guan in Bloomberg View http://ow.ly/DWgiS via @FuseEight
Schools and Libraries
The Skyping Renaissance | The current state of practice for Skype author visits from @KateMessner @sljournal http://ow.ly/DP7gV
Could (restoring) Recess Cure Our ADHD Epidemic? asks @StaceyLoscalzo | Seems to me it couldn't hurt http://ow.ly/DKG5u
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