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October 13, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

As I posted last month, teaching in Kenya is my main goal for next summer - with my fingers and toes crossed of course.
A quick recap: after reading Meja Mwangi’s middle-grade novel, The Mzungu Boy (Groundwood, 2005); writing - ...Read More

October 7, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)

I know it's not Monday, but I just couldn't hold on to this video of Dalton Sherman. It's a now kind of video. Dalton is a young boy with a strong message: Believe In Me! Take a look. You won't be disappointed.

October 6, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Teachers, Matt and Jillyean Kellogg are on an all out mission to keep And Tango Makes Three on their school library shelves, so I selected them as my Monday's, Everyday People Doing Amazing Things.  

Matt says...thank you [Amy] for responding so quickly.  I am a first and second grade teacher in California.  One year I teach my students as first graders and the next year they are my second graders.  And Tango Makes Three (Simon and Schuster 2005) was adopted by one of my students to donate to the school library.  It had been there an entire yea...Read More

October 3, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

Just when I thought I didn't have a Fun on Friday post today, I found - through a Google search - my darling daughter, Christina, left a comment for me on a previous post about UNSPOILING YOUR CHILD. Interesting that she chose that post to comment on.

So for me, since it made me chuckle, it's definitely worth a repost. Click here to see her comment.  

Is  is jus...Read More

September 29, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (4)

In the midst of all of this political and economic upheaval, we need to remember there are still people - librarians and teachers - who need our help. Hence, any librarians out there reading this, please help a reader-friend of mine with the following - disturbing issue:

jillyean kellogg commented: where can we go for support when parents attempt to have this book removed from our school library. we are facing this right now and must defend the book at an upcoming district meeting. Help! We love this book and NEED it in our library.

First of all, who ...Read More