Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: August 26: The Call for #Cybils Judges, and More
August 26, 2016
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include #BookLists, back to school, diverse books, exercise, growing bookworms, love of books, picture books, reading, and STEM. But the biggest news of the week is that the Cybils Awards are gearing up for fall, with a snazzy new logo color scheme, and accepting applications for judges.
Book Lists
The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children’s Books of 2016 — @100scopenotes http://ow.ly/YObS303wdY7 #kidlit #PictureBooks
Great choices here: 10 Favorite #PictureBooks for Starting #School, a #BookList from @MaryAnnScheuer http://ow.ly/w34h303u8wz #kidlit
Read Around Town: #PictureBooks that celebrate the Post Office http://ow.ly/5NbT303weCr @mrskatiefitz #BookList
Six Favorite #EasyReaders from an enthusiastic, internally motivated new #reader @sunlitpages http://ow.ly/TBWQ303uadz #BookList
A Tuesday Ten #BookList @TesseractViews | Foxes Fantastic | #kidlit fantasy featuring foxes https://t.co/QNHgHlvNOC
12 Girls from Fiction Who Are Their Own Heroes, brave + strong, #BookList by @Bookopolis @ReadBrightly http://ow.ly/lBwT303yJXv #kidlit
Cybils
#KidLit bloggers: the 2016 #Cybils logo by @aquafortis is now available for download. Show your @cybils pride! http://ow.ly/OB4N303wfGQ
Do You Want to Be a #Cybils Judge? @brandymuses suggests reasons to consider it http://ow.ly/ba4r303yfLk #kidlit
Announcing the #Cybils Call for Judges + her own new spot as #YA Fiction category chair: @melissawiley #kidlit http://ow.ly/gqWb303wdDg
Hey there #kidlit + #YA reviewers: The #Cybils Call for Judges is now LIVE! Apply by 9/14 to help http://ow.ly/1VlE303u9Lv
Change Is Fun!! | @book_nut summarizes changes to the #Cybils for this fall http://ow.ly/mjkg303pjjM |Call for judges coming soon! #kidlit
More news from the #Cybils blog: 2 new chairs (@kidsilkhaze + @growingbbb), and 1 closed category (#BookApps) http://ow.ly/pZw0303u7Iu
Diversity
Why #WeNeedDiverseBeginningReaders | w/ book suggestions at Guessing Geisel http://ow.ly/ZqMX303u7zZ #kidlit #DiverseBooks
Events and Programs
Italian government is giving teens €500 on their 18th birthday to spend on books/arts @christophhooton @Independent https://t.co/8oS9ookU8j
Growing Bookworms
What’s "important is not that a child learns to love to read, but that a child learns to love story" @storybreathing https://t.co/dlBKQT4qLj
A resource room #teacher's plea: plea: let’s make Language Arts workbooks focus on brief real stories, not" tedium https://t.co/cHG6rebn2m
On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing
The Great Rooms of Children’s Literature (incl. Berenstain Bears) by @Rumaan @Slate http://ow.ly/6KHx303weOg #kidlit [Shown is the book with my personal favorite room from children's literature: Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Velvet Room.]
The Importance of #PictureBooks, No Matter Your Age, guest post by Janice Milusich for @Lauri14o https://t.co/8Q9KsTjPLI
When Celebrity #PictureBooks (based on pop songs) Go Kuh-kuh-kuh-KRAZY! — @FuseEight http://ow.ly/HCeQ303wdRv #kidlit
Parenting
On how books can help us raise our children, with a #BookList for discussing 9/11 @donalynbooks @nerdybookclub https://t.co/2wL47YPHeU
Sounds reasonable: Study finds that exercise before #school enhances "on-task" behavior for kids http://ow.ly/EiIX303wcVn via @WSJ
Powerful piece by @ChloeSchama @Slate on how #reading to her nonverbal son has helped her to understand him https://t.co/OH08AuGmtC
1/3 of parents avoid reading children scary stories, UK study finds | psychologists say not good @GuardianBooks https://t.co/hT0dfOVlFc
Schools and Libraries
The @HornBook site has a slew of #BackToSchool resources including #BookLists by age and other #school story links http://ow.ly/JwRb303AGoz
Why Do Intervention Effects Fade? @DTWillingham reviews some new research http://ow.ly/rwCR303u7uQ #ECE #education #preschool
STEM
This is neat: IceBox Derby Helps Steer Teenage Girls in Chicago Toward #Math and #Science http://ow.ly/oU7v303tViJ @BeckieStrum @WSJ #STEM
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