Librarian Prep List for Thanksgiving
by Lara Neel, Trade Marketing Manager
Looking for Thanksgiving book display ideas or maybe selections for your readers advisory group? Look no further! Here’s a cornucopia of books!
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Librarian Prep List for April
April is Poetry Month and April 22 is Earth Day this year, so we’ve made a list to help you get ready for both of them! Read More
My 5-Year-Old Asks Calef Brown Questions about The Ghostly Carousel
By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books
As I mentioned in yesterday’s interview on the blog, my 5-year-old is a bit obsessed with Calef Brown’s new poetry collection, The Ghostly Carousel: Delightfully Frightful Poems. Read More
3 Great Tips for Sharing Seeing into Tomorrow
By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books
In a casual conversation with Nina Crews, I mentioned that my younger son (who was 4 at the time) was a bit too young to really understand Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright. Nina selected the haiku for the book, created photo-collage illustrations, and wrote a brief biography of Wright along with other back matter elements. She also knows a thing or two about sharing books with kids of all ages. Read More
How to Perform a Poem: Tips from Author & Actor Charles Waters
By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books
Happy National Poetry Month! Poetry is wonderful, but sometimes it’s also intimidating—especially if you’re reading a poem aloud to a group of people. So I asked poet and actor Charles Waters to give all of us non-actors a little advice. Read More