With the insane volume of children’s literature churned out each year, a teacher just can’t keep up with emerging high-quality literature without some help. In come the kidlit bloggers, who discuss and review children’s picture books, novels, informational text, poetry–the whole shebang. Using blogs to get the scoop on books allows for a variety of viewpoints as well. Here are a few that I subscribe to plus some I just learned about at NCTE:
http://yzocaet.blogspot.com/ A Chair, A Fireplace, and A Tea Cozy
http://readingyear.blogspot.com/ A Year of Reading
http://chickenspaghetti.typepad.com/chicken_spaghetti Chicken Spaghetti
http://jkrbooks.typepad.com Jen Robinson’s Book Page
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1790000379.html A Fuse #8 Productions
http://kidslitinformation.blogspot.com/ Big A little a
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