I'm trying to organize my children's book collection by age. Is there a good website to use as reference?
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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."
sj - Jul 11, 2017 12:43:03 pm PDT #24652 of 28222
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flea - Jul 11, 2017 1:06:13 pm PDT #24653 of 28222
information libertarian
Like, reading level? There are sites that give lexile scores - on a quick check Amazon seems to include them for things. But for the most part format is more telling - board books vs. picture books vs. early/easy readers vs. middle grade (="chapter books") vs young adult (which are chapter books with more sophisticated themes, basically.)
Jessica - Jul 12, 2017 6:36:01 pm PDT #24654 of 28222
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But for the most part format is more telling - board books vs. picture books vs. early/easy readers vs. middle grade (="chapter books") vs young adult (which are chapter books with more sophisticated themes, basically.)
Also, size of font (which corresponds to # of words per page).
beth b - Jul 16, 2017 7:57:28 pm PDT #24655 of 28222
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Nancy Pearl's summer reading list, via NPR: [link]
love the sound of the first book, a vintage Hollywood mystery with Edith Head (!) as one of the detectives.
I read it - really good
Kat - Jul 16, 2017 8:10:25 pm PDT #24656 of 28222
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm reading it right now!
Consuela - Jul 21, 2017 5:50:22 pm PDT #24657 of 28222
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So among the many things revealed at SDCC today is the fact that ELIZABETH FREAKING WEIN is writing a SW book: [link]
Looks like a comic, or maybe an illustrated book. BUT! Holy cow.
Other writers also writing new SW material: KEN LIU. MIRA GRANT. SALADIN AHMED. DELILAH DAWSON.
I am agog.
sumi - Jul 22, 2017 10:58:38 am PDT #24658 of 28222
Art Crawl!!!
Wow!!!
Upside of having generations of kids raised on Star Wars.
sumi - Jul 25, 2017 12:34:38 pm PDT #24659 of 28222
Art Crawl!!!
Just finished Lisa See's I The Teagirl of Hummingbird Lane.
It is really good.
Toddson - Jul 26, 2017 7:00:07 am PDT #24660 of 28222
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I saw this and it struck me as something Jilli would enjoy - Strange Practice. What the author calls "sensible monsters."
Amy - Jul 26, 2017 7:41:36 am PDT #24661 of 28222
Because books.
I just saw that mentioned on Twitter, and it does look good, Todd!
I'm reading this now -- [link] -- and I love it completely. Exactly what's promised -- a historical YA romp through Europe.