After a long blog vacation, I am joining in on the blog link-up at Teach Mentor Texts.
And at the recommendation of a librarian friend, I linked to Twitterature with Modern Mrs. Darcy, too.
I haven't posted because.....I got a full-time librarian job at a K-2 school , and WHEW!, life has been wonderful and BUSY. I'll be honest - there wasn't much reading going on for the first 2 weeks except what I was reading aloud to the kids! I'm still running about 15 miles a week, and we've had a home cooked dinner just about every night - thank you, crockpot....and there are just only so many hours in a day!
Also, I changed the name of this little blog. I never really liked the other one - it was just way too generic for me.
Without further ado, here is what I read this weekend:
My library doesn't have the complete set of these, but they are flying off the shelves. I read the first one this weekend. It's a fun graphic novel for the younger grades. The pictures are bright and lively, and the dialogue is snappy. I have the full set on order for the library. I know it will never be checked in.
I also have this set on order for the library. I read the first one quite awhile ago, so this weekend I read the second one. There are b&w pictures on every page, and lots of white space in the text. They are perfect for the very early transitional reader crowd. My own first grader, Henry, loves them. I've ordered him all of them, and he is plowing through them.
This YA novel is definitely not for my little readers. I'm reading this at night before I go to bed. I'm enjoying it, but I'm not completely hooked at this point.
