The Orange Prize long list.
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Mar 12, 2013 3:23:49 pm PDT #20529 of 28359
Because books.
flea - Mar 17, 2013 12:16:47 pm PDT #20530 of 28359
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Our school got into a grant-funded program to promote early literacy, and I've been asked to coordinate it, and so I have to make a list of 640 unique books for K-3 readers that I'd like them to buy us. And it's actually really really hard to choose THAT many books all at once! I am up to 240 after a couple of afternoons of hard work. It's made a bit harder by the budget - I have to be *really* selective about picture books, since they run about $8 over the "average" price per book I have to spend, and I have to only buy books available through a certain vendor so I can't price-hunt.
Amy - Mar 17, 2013 12:35:46 pm PDT #20531 of 28359
Because books.
Still, books!
Post what you've chosen so far, maybe, and we can chime in with suggestions?
flea - Mar 17, 2013 12:43:00 pm PDT #20532 of 28359
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Here's my spreadsheet: [link]
I am also hampered by my limited background in early childhood education (i.e. none). I want to take a preliminary list to the teachers, with whom I'm meeting Weds., to get some feedback about grade choices. Note the 3rd graders are gifted and test at 95%ile or above, so I've cheated up a bit with some of their choices.
flea - Mar 17, 2013 12:46:23 pm PDT #20533 of 28359
information libertarian
So far I've been working off of books I know, and the lists for Common Core exemplary texts and ALA notable books.
le nubian - Mar 17, 2013 1:42:40 pm PDT #20534 of 28359
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Has anyone been reading Scalzi's "The Human Division?" It is a multi-part book that has been released in chunks on Amazon (perhaps other outlets as well?)
I have been enjoying it. I'm about halfway through (on part 5 or 6). Overall, I find this an interesting way to release a book. I am not sure if Scalzi had this in mind when he wrote it, but it very much feels like a written form tv mini-series in that each part has a beginning, middle, and end, but the parts seem to be tied together well enough. The parts seemed really unrelated, but around now the relationships are coming together in an interesting fashion.
le nubian - Mar 17, 2013 1:43:45 pm PDT #20535 of 28359
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The audio version of the first part shows some labored writing on Scalzi's part. It seemed to be smoothed out after the first. I have mostly read the subsequent sections so I'm not sure if I would have noticed the choppy writing in the first part if I hadn't been listening to it.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2013 2:55:13 pm PDT #20536 of 28359
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The Magic Treehouse series is at least 50 books long by now.
The Littles series is another bunch of good short chapter books.
All the Frances books
Sophia Brooks - Mar 17, 2013 4:46:36 pm PDT #20537 of 28359
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Flea- I am going to forward to my BFF who i an early childhood educator and see if she has any recs. Can I give her your email?
dcp - Mar 17, 2013 5:20:45 pm PDT #20538 of 28359
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Flea, I see you already have several Curious George books on the list, but I suggest adding Curious George Rides a Bike.
That was the book that got me started with origami in the 2nd grade.