Entries from March 2009

March 30, 2009

Check back soon!

On Tuesday, March 31 at 10:00 at the NYSRA conference the Charlotte committee will announce the ballot for the 2010 Charlotte Award. We’ll post the ballot and ballot resources here soon thereafter!

March 12, 2009

HIstorical/ Underground RR books I will be presenting

Keeping with the theme of today’s Albany chapter meeting of the NYS Reading Association, I will be bringing the following books to coordinate with the Underground RR Theme :
 
Gabriel’s Horses by Alison Hart
 
Come Juneteenth by Ann Rinaldi
 
 and Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln  by Judith St. George
I will also be bringing along the following historic fiction titles [...]

March 9, 2009

Historical Fiction & Nonfiction

Mary Beth and I will be presenting historical fiction and nonfiction at the ACARC meeting this week.  Here are the titles I’m bringing.
Related to our theme the Underground Railroad.
Abe Lincoln Crosses A Creek:  A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend). Written by Deborah Hopkinson.  Illustrated by John Hendrix.  Schwartz & Wade, 2008.  [Check [...]