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Excite, encourage and engage kids to read! Check out Biblionasium, where young readers connect & share book lists and good reads with friends, teachers & parents. Look up the reading level difficulty of thousands of books and find the right fit books. A powerful teacher tool and valued parent resource.

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NoveList K-8 Plus | Book Recommendations from the Readers' Advisory Experts | What is NoveList? | NoveList | EBSCOhost

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These slides accompany my one-hour presentation on reading conferences.

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Photos for iOS brings your memories to life in new ways. And with smart search capabilities, it makes finding your favorite moments easier than ever.

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Discover pages with the best links about a subject

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Evernote is a great tool for record keeping when conferring with readers. You can add photos!

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BEFORE SOCIAL MEDIA existed, people had far fewer chances to show off-and soliciting a little praise could leave you completely drained. If you wanted to flaunt your good taste and your enviable eye for design, for instance, you were required to decorate a two-story Colonial or at least throw a dinner party, folding napkins into fetching shapes and masterminding a sublime centerpiece. You had to vigorously vacuum, admit people into your home and clean up their hors d'oeuvre crumbs.

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While educators, families and kids walk into every new school year refreshed and hopeful, we are all exhausted and brain-fried by the last month of school. We push more and more things into our "I will get back to this when summer starts" pile. For many of us, our summer piles are stuffed with books we plan to read when we have more time.

It's natural for reading to fall lower on our list of priorities now and then. We can fill our days with a hundred activities that aren't reading. For every night we spend binge reading a book until the wee morning hours, we can point to weeks when we didn't read anything more than Facebook posts. It happens to every reader.Our reading lives ebb and flow. Summer's slower pace gives us breathing room-an opportunity to recommit ourselves to daily reading.

I started the #bookaday challenge in 2009 because I realized that my family and I read less during the last six weeks of the school year than any other time. Overwhelmed by end-of-year projects and school celebrations like band concerts and award ceremonies, we let our nightly reading routines slip by the wayside. When we did talk about reading, we talked about what we wanted to read during the summer.

Announcing the first annual Book-a-Day Challenge was a public declaration of my commitment to read one a book a day for every day of summer break. In the weeks leading up to summer vacation, I talked with my students continuously about how fun and exciting it would be to read as much as they wanted over the summer. We made lists of books they might read. I loaned books out for the summer. If I believed what I told my students, I needed to read more and ensure that my family read more, too. Beyond my responsibility as a reading role model for the children in my life, I needed a challenge. I wanted to kick start my reading life and push myself to read more than I ever had.

I read 75 or so books that summer and rediscovered my reading mojo. My summer memories included wonderful reading experiences-languid days spent reading under my ceiling fan, taking my children to the public library and checking out a Radio Flyer wagon full of books, and connecting to the burgeoning online world of book lovers and educators. Beyond the personal benefits of Book-a-Day, the challenge reinforced the power of book talking to connect my students with engaging books. I walked into my classroom that fall with two overflowing bags of books to promote and share with my new students.

Over the past seven summers, Book-a-Day has grown and changed. In 2010, Book-a-Day became #bookaday and participants began using the hashtag to connect and share books on Twitter. In 2011, I met Colby Sharp online during the #bookaday challenge. The Nerdy Book Club community grew from the conversations #bookaday participants were having online every day. Folks started shorter #bookaday challenges during winter and spring holiday breaks. Jillian Heise created the picture #bookaday challenge, pledging to read one picture book with her middle school students for every day of the school year. Teri Lesesne and I shared the origins and benefits of the #bookaday challenge with colleagues at the Texas Library Association conference last month and invited everyone to join. More than a summer reading challenge now, the #bookaday community continues to share books and celebrate reading all year.

The summer #bookaday event endures as an annual opportunity to hit the reset button on our reading lives, connect with other readers, celebrate books, and remind ourselves how much reading matters to our lives and the young people we serve. If you have participated in past years, welcome back! If you are new to the #bookaday challenge, don't be intimidated!

It doesn't matter if you actually read a book every day or not. Dedicate more time to read. Celebrate your right to read what you want. Make reading plans. Share and collect book recommendations. Connect with other readers.The #bookaday challenge is personal, not a competition. Finish that series. Tackle that epic historical your mother gave you for your birthday (last September). Try audiobooks. How would you like to grow as a reader this summer?

The #bookaday guidelines are simple:

You set your own start date and end date.

Read one book per day for each day of summer vacation. This is an average, so if you read three books in one day and none the next two, it still counts.

Any book qualifies including picture books, nonfiction, professional books, audio books, graphic novels, poetry anthologies, or fiction-children's, youth, or adult titles.

Keep a list of the books you read and share them often via a social networking site like goodreads or Twitter (post using the #bookaday hashtag), a blog, or Facebook page. You do not have to post reviews, but you can if you wish. Titles will do.

Since I work year round now, I never really stop my #bookaday challenge. I read on average a book a day all year. Some days, I read twenty picture books. Other times, I spend a week or more savoring a lush book. The measure of a reading life isn't how many books we read. It's the experiences, the knowledge gained, the connections we make with other readers that make our reading lives meaningful. The summer #bookaday challenge gives us the chance to remember what we love about reading.

I am planning a wonderful summer of travel-inside and outside of my books. I hope our paths cross during the Eighth Annual #bookaday challenge or during my summer road trips. I look forward to connecting and sharing with you.

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The Whole Book Approach

This exce rpt from my book, Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See provides an overview of my development of the Whole Book Approach, a co-constructive (interactive) storytime model that I developed in association with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.

I think of the Whole Book Approach as a means of reading with children, as opposed to reading to them, as it invites children to make meaning of text, art, and design-the whole book!

Visit the The Carle's page about its Educational Philosophy to learn about how the Whole Book Approach fits in with its educational programming.

Throughout Picture Book Month, November 2016, I did daily tweet threads using the Whole Book Approach. Here is my blog post with links to every thread (you don't need to have a Twitter account to access the threads). And, here is the list of all 375 picture books mentioned in these threads. Some books on the list were recommended by readers, others are included on my 2017 Mock Caldecott list.

Recently I've been working on various projects that explore how Whole Book Approach storytimes can support children's critical engagement with picture book representations of race, gender, class, and other aspects of identity in characterization. See my work with EmbraceRace and MERGE for Equality for more information about this developing area of my work.

I'm so pleased that the Doors to the World initiative is including the Whole Book Approach in its resources for educators. Here's to "making global children's picture books and teaching resources available to PreK to Grade 3 teachers" and fostering critical reading.

Click these links for articles and interviews about Reading Picture Books with Children and the Whole Book Approach:

School librarian Cari Young from Library Learners has written chapter-by-chapter blog posts about my book on her site in Spring 2017.

My guest blog post at Hilltown Families gives an overview of the Whole Book Approach. Posted December 12, 2016

Ellen Myrick's review of Reading Picture Books with Children on the Bound to Stay Bound website. Posted November 2, 2016

This Publisher's Weekly article gives a great summary of the talk I gave at Book Fest @ Bank Street within an overview of the entire day's activities. Posted October 31, 2016

Go to the 2:05 mark at this KidLit TV link to see the interactive talk I gave at the Book Fest at Bank Street, and check out the other speakers and panels, too. Posted October 23, 2016

Review of Reading Picture Books with Children from a public library website. Posted October 8, 2016

The Picture Book as "Object?" Yes, THE STEAM of PBs by Kathy Halsey, posted at GROG on June 23, 2016

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Sowing the Seeds Summer 2016 Newsletter

Valley Kids interview June/July 2016

Horn Book Podcast May 31, 2016

DIYMFA podcast with Gabriela Pereira May 18, 2016

Jbrary review by Lindsey Krabbenhoff April 13, 2016

School Library Journal Webcast with me, Charlesbridge editor Yolanda Scott, and Carle Museum educator Emily Prabhaker March 9, 2016

Book Marketing Buzz Blog by Brian Feinblum February 10, 2016

Kirkus Reviews article by Julie Danielson January 21, 2016

School Library Journal article by Alicia Eames January 11, 2016

Bay State Parent interview by Jennifer Sheehy Everett January 2016

Two Writing Teachers interview by Stacy Shubitz December 17, 2015

KidLit College interview by Jodell Sadler November 19, 2015

Watch this video of editor Yolanda Scott on KidLit College describing the Whole Book Approach November 13, 2015

Whole Book Approach Storytime Stories

It's been so wonderful to hear from readers who are using the Whole Book Approach after reading Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See. Reading with my own children at home played a huge part in my development of the Whole Book Approach. In this throwback photo I'm reading with five of my kids-all of whom are now book-loving tweens and teens.

When I read with my sons and daughters we naturally do a lot of stopping and talking about text, art, and design, and I try to let them set the pace of these readings so that their questions, comments, and responses to my questions are an integral part of our reading. I want to bring this same interactive spirit to the storytimes I lead. I never want discussions to feel like we are just interrupting a book; I want them to feel like they are enriching our experience of story, art, and design.

I'll use the space below to post reader comments that I've received about how using Whole Book Approach techniques has enriched the storytime practice of librarians and teachers who've read my book, and I'll also post reflections from booksellers, professors, writers, illustrators, and parents and other caregivers.

This morning, on an outreach visit, I found myself in an awkward situation... The daycare provider forgot I was coming and only had one child there- a 7 year old. And all of my materials were geared towards the 2-5 year olds I usually see on my outreach visits. But, because I was currently reading Megan Dowd Lambert's "Reading Picture Books With Children" I was able to put into practice the whole book approach...The first book I grabbed was Sam and Dave Dig a Hole and it was PERFECT for exploring the whole book... Upon asking "do you know what spectacular is" and that combined with the fact that the two were digging a hole the 7 year old said "It could be something spectacular like another dimension!" already, I was blown away. We took time to really look at each picture- each part of the illustrations. After we read the book he enjoyed comparing the house in the first few pictures to the one at the end... he even recognized that the endpapers were red and green to correspond to the fruit on the trees at the beginning and end!

Thanks to this book it wasn't an awkward situation. I learned a lot, and so did the 7 year old. We really explored this book together. If you haven't checked out "Reading Picture Books With Children" I highly recommend you do so! - Meg, posted on Storytime Underground March 20, 2017

"Thank you! I have been a teacher/storyteller/librarian(secret writer) for over 40 years. Your book affirmed my interactive style of sharing books with kids and opened my eyes to focusing on the art! -Jan, reader email received February 2017

Here's a blog post from Reading is Better than Chocolate about leading a Whole Book Approach storytime with one of my favorite picture books, Last Stop on Market Street. Posted 11/17/2016

I've been using these methods for several weeks now at my daughters' school library and the results are indeed astonishing at times. By giving children the time and space to explore the physical book and the artwork as much as the words, so much more can be learned. Very rarely do children lose interest and the true challenge lies in keeping the pace moving so we don't run out of time. I recommend this book very highly to anyone who reads picture books to children, whether your own at home or larger groups in educational or library settings. Annie posted 10/8/2016

I'm an illustrator passionate about nature, science and the environment. I volunteer at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery in Fort Collins. I've been working with them to develop a new program called "Storytime in the Dome". Earlier this summer I was at the 21st Century Nonfiction Conference and Alyssa Mito Pusey of Charlesbridge Publishing mentioned your book, Reading Picture Books with Children. I picked up a copy and it's wonderful! We're using your whole book approach for our story time event and it really made it a fun, interactive experience. I just wanted to say "Thanks so much and I look forward to your future books". - Cathy July 2016

I've been a children's librarian for 3 ½ years and led countless storytimes. But now I realize how much I've been missing, and failing to pass on to the children, and I can't wait to put the Whole Book Approach into practice. We've had a two-week hiatus from our weekly storytimes, but we start up again this week and I'm hoping to try a modified version of the whole book approach and ease into doing more and more over time. I have a bit of a tough crowd since my group is the two-year-olds. I admit that sometimes I'm just happy if they stay relatively engaged and focused on the stories until we move on to what most of them really seem to want most: the music and movement part of the program. But I've been taking a good look at the front and back covers and end papers and all the other parts of the book I neglected to notice previously, and I'm eager to share some of my new discoveries with the children. My co-workers and I also take turns leading a craft and story time for 3-7 year olds and I'm in the planning stages for my next one. I've been planning brown bear stories and a brown bear craft, (sound familiar? J) but now I'm thinking that the possibilities are quite endless for me to try something a little different. I'm excited to try using the whole book instead of just focusing on the story. A Visitor for Bear was already on my list, so I was delighted to see it used as an example in your book. In fact, I've been happily running to our picture book shelves on a daily basis to find the books to which you referred throughout the book and I feel like a whole new world is opening up to me. Although I focused on children's services when I was studying for my library degree, my coursework in children's literature never focused on picture book format. So here I am taking my own crash course, and loving it. I'm also so glad that I bought a copy of your book because I can share it with my colleagues, mark it up, and refer to it often. Thanks so much for including practical advice and suggested questions, and for opening my eyes to look at picture books in a whole new way. -Renée May 2016

What a wonderful book! Thank you for putting into such an accessible text, a philosophy I have long subscribed to. I developed a two hour workshop around your notion of the whole book approach and delivered it to our teachers just yesterday. I guided them through the approach with a section of beautiful high quality picture books. The wonder in their eyes, their on-task behaviour, their excitement in their voices as they encountered so many a-hah moments was a joy to watch. And much of this from seasoned secondary (high) high school teachers! Thank you again for this book - it has made a real difference to me and to our teachers. Meredith, April 2016

Thanks to Prof. Susanna Richard for sharing these photos of her graduate students from Eastern Connecticut State University using the Whole Book Approach in one of their classes:

I just got a copy of Reading Picture Books With Children at my library, and I read it immediately! I really loved it and all your ideas about sharing books. Of course, I already knew you were a great writer from the pieces you've done for Children and Libraries in the past, but this was truly eye-opening for me, both as a writer and a librarian. And I loved the story especially about the kids getting images of Max's mom based on Pierre! I had never thought of that! All your examples were really fun for me to consider and go back and look at the books myself. Thanks for a great title; I'll be sharing it with all my colleagues, and I'm now inspired to read books with my daughter in a different way! Keep up the great work!" - Sharon, February 2016

I saw your interview with SLJ, and it made me want to share a WBA-related story from one of my storytimes. I was reading David Miles and Natalie Hoopes' Bookwith two third-grade patrons today in a rural library. When I asked what a "book about books" might mean, one patron noted that it might be a book with "fake books" in it. The other patron noticed the strips of pages used to decorate the book, and decided that the book was, rather, made of other books. Halfway through reading the book, that patron also told me I was saying book too much. So, rather than say the word when it came up in the text or in our discussion, I would pause and shut my lips tight. They loved that I wouldn't allow myself to say "book," and I loved that they thought it was so funny! Perhaps my favorite observation came when we returned to the endpapers at the end of the book. In our original discussion of the endpapers-a collage of a series of letters in different scripts-the patrons noticed how some letters were "normal" and others were "fancy." The fancy letters reminded them of fairytales. This might explain why both patrons had been noticing a strange tentacle/vine/dragon tail hidden in some of the pictures throughout the book. The identity of this creature is never revealed, but one patron suggested that the "fancy" letters in the endpapers might be placed together to spell the identity of the creature. We weren't able to discover if that was true or not (in part because of how libraries tape the slipcover). But I just thought it was so cool-not to mention an excellent idea for a picture book! My favorite thing about using WBA is that it teaches children to really stop and read the pictures. I once read a Pete the Cat book to a preschooler and he was actually irritated when a shoe color that appeared in the endpapers didn't appear in the story. I used it as an opportunity to discuss what might happen with those other shoes. Would the green shoes step in goo? The yellow sho es in bananas? I could share so many more stories. But, for now, I'll just say thank you (again) for teaching me how to read pictures. -Alec, February 2016

I recently devoured Reading Picture Books With Children and have been implementing several of the Whole Book and VTS strategies with my students. The Whole Book model impressed me so much...Thanks so much for your insight, passion, and wisdom! - Emmie, February 2016

I just wanted to let you know that I've now read your book, and it is terrific. I'm assigning it as required reading for my twenty-seven students in "Art and Story: The Story of Picturebook Art," which starts February 22nd. I know students will appreciate the approachability of your book! -Marianne, February 2016

Yesterday I received your book Reading Picture Books with Children. I was so exhausted last night, I could only get through the forward and introduction. I woke up this morning, grabbed my coffee and read the first three chapters before I had to get ready to go to school and put on my school librarian hat. I couldn't wait to try new things I learned in the first three chapters. I read You Are (not) Small to prek, k and 1st graders. Your approach made for the best library time I've had in over 20 years. The conversations were rich, insightful, organic and allowed the children to really experience the art as a part of the telling experience of the story. I threw out those structured CCSS lessons and just let it happen. I am so thankful for your book, I emailed many people about it today. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for such an eye opener written in a format that isn't stuffy, but approachable. -Ann, November 2015

There are very few books out there on how to read to children that have anything new and innovative to report and yet I felt curious and drawn to Megan Dowd Lambert's book that caught my eye while at PNBA. I thought I knew quite a bit and am quite the dynamic story time reader but upon reading this book, I feel like I have a whole new direction to take story time. I am so thankful that this book is so well written and the pacing allowed me to devour it in a couple hours and easily read it word for word and cover to cover and I admit that I took some time to notice the endpapers and took the paper cover off to peek within. I am ecstatic with invigorated book curiosity as a result of the questions posed within this book from the size and shape of the book to the books gutter and even the spine of the book...This book is spectacular...Thank you so much for finally providing a worthwhile and much needed book and I promise I will help get it into as many hands as I can as well as using it to transform our bookstore's story times using the Whole Book Approach! -Jesica, October 2015

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