Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: February 2: Multicultural Books, #GrowthMindset, #Play, and Book Prizes + Awards

Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include: #BookLists, #Cybils Awards, #DiverseBooks, #GrowingBookworms, #GrowthMindset, #MCBD, #OwnVoices, #play, #Reading, #ReadingLogs, book awards, Doug Green, literacy, parenting, Rick Riordan, thrillers, and writing.

Also, since today is Groundhog Day, I'd like to share the link a book that I reviewed late last year: Groundhug Day by Anne Marie Pace and Christopher Denise. It's super-cute and well worth a look! 

Book Lists

Children's Books About #Perseverance and Determination, a @growingbbb #BookList ow.ly/i8vP30i97tR  #PictureBooks

Everything Old Is New Again: Fantastic #PictureBook #Biographies You May Have Forgotten — @FuseEight ow.ly/kubn30i1GEl #BookList #kidlit

Cybils Awards

Today's featured #Cybils REVIEW is #YA Fiction Finalist Piecing Me Together by @reneewauthor from @bloomsburykids | Review by @MissDahlELama ow.ly/Niby30i4Ie0

Today's featured #Cybils REVIEW is #Poetry finalist Bull by David Elliott from @hmhkids | Review by @roesolo ow.ly/xxV130i1Gkn

Today's featured #Cybils REVIEW: #YA Speculative Fiction finalist They Both Die at the End by @AdamSilvera @harperteen | review by @cleemckenzie ow.ly/FQqg30i7mcv

Events + Programs

A Few Words on the recently celebrated Multicultural Children's Book Day #MCBD from @randomlyreading | #DiverseBooks @pragmaticmom + Valarie Budayr ow.ly/qs6D30i4IwP

Dragons Oh My! @MrsPstorytime announces the winners of her 9th Annual “Be a Famous Writer” Contest ow.ly/qDlf30i5XBy #writing | Judges included @joshfunkbooks + @MatthewWinner

When we #ReadAloud, we change the world! #WorldReadAloudDay Ideas to celebrate from @MrsPstorytime https://t.co/hep29eIuTO

Growing Bookworms

RT @LiteracyForTX: Ten suggestions for how any teacher can help cultivate a love for reading. We think a Read-a-Thon sounds fun! ow.ly/jWez30hUbI3 #TLChat #TxLChat

The Power of Listening | #ReadingAloud as a ritual in an ever-louder, distraction-filled world, by @pamallyn @litworldsays https://t.co/jeHAB9JQ0K (written for World Read Aloud Day, but the ideas are timeless)

Kidlitosphere

Lots of #kidlit tidbits in Morning Notes: Road Trip Edition — @100scopenotes ow.ly/zdFl30i7mCk #ALAYMA, #BookAwards, #Podcasts

On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing

New "Rick Riordan Presents" Imprint @DisneyHyperion Gets Underway! | @camphalfblood answers questions ow.ly/WvCQ30i4ItP | #kidlit #fantasy #OwnVoices

Don’t Forget to Read! – Why you should make the time, plus tips for finding "exciting new books" from @WritersRumpus #reading https://t.co/whqXKyKlhU

This is kind of cool: Prize launched for thrillers that avoid sexual violence against women | @alisonflood @GuardianBooks https://t.co/lrGPclbNM1

Did you resolve to read more this year? @op_booklover has some suggestions ow.ly/HA0n30i7n1J | #Reading #audiobooks

Parenting + Play

To #play is to #learn. Time to step back and let kids be kids | World Economic Forum @wef https://t.co/WlFdZLr0YE

How to Raise Bright Children - 6 positive strategies for encouraging #GrowthMindset ow.ly/Or9p30i5XOF @DrShenfield via @drdouggreen | 6. Make sure #reading + #music are valued

RT @MindshiftKQED: The happiest teens use digital media less than an hour per day, according to this study. https://t.co/ehMSEcAkbn

Taking Playtime Seriously | @PerriKlass @nytimes | Pulling back on programmed learning, leaving time for exploration + fun | #Play #learning https://t.co/Rwp6l41ldR

Schools and Libraries

Seems like this would be interesting, though I haven't read it: Teaching Isn't Rocket Science, It's Way More Complex by @drdouggreen (I follow his blow) amzn.to/2DQcrdK via @amazon

"How many ... systems and procedures do we put in place without really examining the unintended consequences of these procedures?" @pernilleripp | ow.ly/nGNW30i4IEz | #ReadingLogs #ReadingHomework

8 Ways for #Teachers to Help Older Kids Develop a Sense of the Vital Skill that is #Imagination | @LindaFlanagan2 @MindShiftKQED ow.ly/WLbm30i9bgk 

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