Social Studies
For our history lesson, Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect has a post about Pharoah’s Boat by David Weitzman.
We learn about geography and culture at at Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup where Jama Rattigan interviews Joan MacPhail Knight and Melissa Sweet, author and illustrator of beautiful picture books about the travels of a young girl named Charlotte Glidden.
Anastasia Suen shares a timeline activity to go along with Cars on Mars at Picture Book of the Day.
The subject of cultural diversity is covered by several posts:
Susan Thomsen presents Neesha Meminger on Kids’ Books by South Asian Authors at Chicken Spaghetti.
J. L. Bell discusses The Spectrum of Autism Fiction posted at Oz and Ends.
Melissa at Kidliterate has written a review about When The Black Girl Sings by Bil Wright.
Barbara Bietz presents For Your Consideration – The Truth About Sydney Taylor Book Award Submissions.
A rousing Civics debate could be stirred by Pam Coughlan’s post on Getting Stuff and Making Money and Lee Wind‘s discussion of Tintin au Congo: It’s Racist, but should it be pulled from library shelves?.
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Language Arts
We have many lovely posts about writing and publication:
At Children’s Writing Web Journal, Jon Bard has posted Want to Write Children’s Books? You Need These Four Things!.
Elizabeth O. Dulemba of dulemba.com, Gregory K. of GottaBook and Kate Coombs of Book Aunt post their notes on the SCBWI conference.
As part of a series on back-to-school writing activities, Carmela Martino shares One Hundred Eighty Days (And Ways), an article on activities using the poetry of J. Patrick Lewis.
At A Year of Reading, Franki calls for members of the Kidlitosphere to Submit a Piece about Your Reading Life to our Local Gallery in celebration of NCTE’s National Day on Writing.
Lori Calabrese discusses the factors that go into the decision: Hardcover or Paperback?
At Imaginary Blog, Lynn E. Hazen presents An interview with Tavia Stewart-Streit, director of the Young Writers Program, a youth component of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
To help us consider how to instill a love of reading, Jen Robinson looks at The Fate of Reading and Reading Teachers.
At Scrub-a-Dub-Tub, Terry Doherty interviews Luminaries of Booklights a group of women who are all working to turn kids into readers.
Eva Mitnick brings us a linguistics lesson with The Language of Fantasy posted at Book Addiction.
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We take a break for phyisical eduction at Book Dads: Fathers That Read!, where Steven Bush reveiws The Boy’s Fitness Guide.
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For a Fine Arts lesson, Jenny Schwartzberg shares her work Tracking Down a Forgotten Illustrator: Luxor Price, His Life and His Illustrations at Jenny’s Wonderland of Books.
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Read-Alouds and Sustained Silent Reading
Picture Books
Janette of World’s Strongest Librarian presents Book Review: Where The Wild Things Are.
Steven Bush reviews Sending Love … My “Different-Functional” Family at Book Dads: Fathers That Read!.
My Picture Book Finds post describes several fantastic pictures books my family has recently discovered.
At The Book Chook, Susan Stephenson reviews Silly Galah, a picture book full of short, humorous poems about Australian animals.
Edi of Crazy Quilts and Carol Hampton Rasco of Rasco From RIF have reviewed 14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy.
Becky Laney presents Wilson and Miss Lovely at Young Readers.
Mary Burkey shares at interview with audio book producer, Paul Gagne of Weston Woods and an audio clip of an interview with Mo Willems and his daugther, Trixie, at Inside the Audiobook Studio: Willems & Weston Woods
Jill reviews Pennies for Elephants by Lita Judge at The Well-Read Child.
Elizabeth O. Dulemba presents a book trailer for her new book, SOAP, SOAP, SOAP! at dulemba.com.
Middle Grade/YA
Nymeth writes about Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson at Things Mean a Lot.
Misadventures with Andi serves as a stop for Danette Haworth on her blog tour celebrating Violet Raines Almost Got Struck By Lightning.
Margo Dill presents Love, Ruby Lavender (Written by: Deborah Wiles) at Read These Books and Use Them!
Jen Robinson is Revisiting Old Friends at Booklights as she considers books she loves to re-read and ones that are amazing to encounter for the first time.
Andrea shares Waves, Ruts and Resilience: Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus at Just One More Book!!
At Read, Read, Read, Megan Germano discusses Also Known as Harper Lee by Ann Haywood Leal.
Becky Laney presents Sent (MG), a time travel story by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Melissa Wiley describes her loves for Jane of Lantern Hill by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Charlotte posts about female, bibliophile protagonists in fantasy books or, “I’ll help save the world, but just let me finish this chapter…”
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That concludes this edition of the Carnival of Children’s Literature. Susan Taylor Brown of Susan Writes with host the next edition. Submit your posts using the carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
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Wow! A nice big carnival. Thanks for putting it together.
Thanks for including my link. I look forward to checking out a bunch of these.
Beautifully pulled together! Thanks for hosting – there are so many great sounding posts I can’t wait to check out!
Namaste,
Lee
So much to explore! Thank you for hosting 🙂
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I love the school theme!
Thanks for the great Carnival!
A terrific round-up, Sarah. Thanks for including my link, and for pulling this together.
Oooh, I like the way you organized and labeled the posts. 😀 Thanks, Sarah!
Excellent job, Sarah! I like the theme, and I like how you included descriptions of each post (which I know is time-consuming), so that it’s easy to decide what to click to. Thanks!!
Really nice, Sarah. Great job. I like how you organized this month’s carnival so well around various curriculum areas. Lots of great content here to dive into! And thanks for including The Imaginary Blog.
Thanks for a great carnival, Sarah! Love the back to school/subject theme. 🙂
Thanks for including us! Great job as always….
Jon
Children’s Book Insider
Thanks for starting us us off with nice, gooey chocolate chip cookies and then adding all the fun. What a great way to put together the carnival. Thanks Sarah!
I’m so glad everyone’s enjoying the carnival. I had fun coming up with the theme 🙂
Sarah
Wow. What a great carnival! I just read through all the posts (thanks for including mine). You did a great job organizing and framing the whole thing. Congratulations!
Thanks for hosting, Sarah!
Really nicely put together!! Great work, Sarah & everyone.
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